As good an example of Miksang as it gets
Friday, April 11, 2008
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Scott and Sam encounter a wave
Scott and Sam encounter a wave
Originally uploaded by Dunstan Orchard
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Saturday, April 05, 2008
US man gets $2.6m for domain name
The domain name was registered in 1994
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) - after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994.
Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.
"It's crazy, it's just crazy," Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
"It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure," he added.
A US man has sold the domain name pizza.com for $2.6m (£1.3m) - after maintaining the site for just $20 a year since 1994.
Chris Clark, 43, accepted the offer from an anonymous bidder after a week-long online auction.
"It's crazy, it's just crazy," Mr Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, was quoted as saying by the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
"It will make a significant difference in my life, for sure," he added.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Dell Entry level laptops get Blu-ray
Dell is the first manufacturer to offer a portable with a Blu-ray below 1000€ and even under 900€.
This machine is still unbalanced with a 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, its resolution of 1280x800 and above all the GMA X3100 (integrated) video board, but apparently is capable of playing a Blu-ray movie in conditions still needing to be verified.
In fact, the processor may need to give everything it has to decode the video, which might be saturated, make noise and have far too low an autonomy.
But the most interesting thing is the the price, proving that with putting a little more money, a few hundred euros, we could get a really well equiped machine. It is sufficient to add a decent graphics chip capable of ensuring hardware decoding of H.264 so that the video decoding is better.
We look forward, of course, to Apple offering decoding Blu-ray in its machines but also authoring for this format on the Mac Pro. Toast 9 is already doing it, but in a frustrat way, but at least proving it is possible to do.
This machine is still unbalanced with a 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, its resolution of 1280x800 and above all the GMA X3100 (integrated) video board, but apparently is capable of playing a Blu-ray movie in conditions still needing to be verified.
In fact, the processor may need to give everything it has to decode the video, which might be saturated, make noise and have far too low an autonomy.
But the most interesting thing is the the price, proving that with putting a little more money, a few hundred euros, we could get a really well equiped machine. It is sufficient to add a decent graphics chip capable of ensuring hardware decoding of H.264 so that the video decoding is better.
We look forward, of course, to Apple offering decoding Blu-ray in its machines but also authoring for this format on the Mac Pro. Toast 9 is already doing it, but in a frustrat way, but at least proving it is possible to do.
DivX Certified Blu-ray DVD Players
If you follow the digital media space at all (and, because you signed up to receive the DivX News, I have to assume that you're at least somewhat interested in digital video), you know by now that the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD has finally ended and that Blu-ray has won. Now that the war is over, chances are a lot of you will be looking to upgrade your home theaters to get in on all that HD goodness. But before you run out and drop a wallet-full of cash on a new Blu-ray player, remember that not all Blu-ray players are created equal. While they'll all play the new HD Blu-ray discs, some of them are DivX Certified as well, meaning they'll also play your collection of DivX videos.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
iPhone to Hit Ireland
Am I impressed ? Yes and No
Yes..... we are getting access to a cool product?
No... .as i have always said... its a cool gadget for the then unsophisticated American Market... but still no Camera,
the Tariff is too restrictive. On Appleinsider some wag has called the Irish Data Famine...
Data is what the iPhone does best and having a too restrictive tariff is dreadful but then mobile or cell phone tariffs here have always been on the expensive side, not to mention the initial handsets.
A new genuine 3G iPhone is on the cards for a Q3 release and as Apple don't run dual stocks... Ireland will have access to it when its available in other markets...
Back to the Camera. it seems at odds that Apple have pioneered the easy access to the digital media (iPhoto, itunes, Podcasts, Quicktime.......) and we take it for granted on other handset to have a half decent camera.
What would make me change over...?
A better tariff in line with US carriers, maybe O2 could combine their Wirless Boradband service to finally kick start the 3g revoloution,
A decent camera,
More ipod space
64GB anyone?
One reason Ireland may have been chosen as the next market? Google... Google have their European HQ in Dublin, so with the iPhone developers kit being launched in a few weeks and the already progressive Apple / Google partnership, Ireland and dublin in particular seems a good play ground for the iPhone, but only if are not picking up the bill.
Yes..... we are getting access to a cool product?
No... .as i have always said... its a cool gadget for the then unsophisticated American Market... but still no Camera,
the Tariff is too restrictive. On Appleinsider some wag has called the Irish Data Famine...
Data is what the iPhone does best and having a too restrictive tariff is dreadful but then mobile or cell phone tariffs here have always been on the expensive side, not to mention the initial handsets.
A new genuine 3G iPhone is on the cards for a Q3 release and as Apple don't run dual stocks... Ireland will have access to it when its available in other markets...
Back to the Camera. it seems at odds that Apple have pioneered the easy access to the digital media (iPhoto, itunes, Podcasts, Quicktime.......) and we take it for granted on other handset to have a half decent camera.
What would make me change over...?
A better tariff in line with US carriers, maybe O2 could combine their Wirless Boradband service to finally kick start the 3g revoloution,
A decent camera,
More ipod space
64GB anyone?
One reason Ireland may have been chosen as the next market? Google... Google have their European HQ in Dublin, so with the iPhone developers kit being launched in a few weeks and the already progressive Apple / Google partnership, Ireland and dublin in particular seems a good play ground for the iPhone, but only if are not picking up the bill.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
BBC confirms iPlayer for iPhone, iPod touch "within weeks"
The BBC has confirmed plans to make streaming TV services using its iPlayer software available to the iPhone and iPod touch, "within weeks".This will be the first time the broadband TV service has been available beyond PC and Mac computers.
read more | digg story
read more | digg story
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Cadbury Gorilla - In The Air Tonight (Extended Mix)
I spotted this in Tv last week and was memorized, cant believe I missed this on the grid, either I'm losing my touch or I've gotton a life, well almost , I guess i "Mist" the Gorillas
Guinness - Surfer ( extended )
Voted the best ad ever..... well perhaps, it is cinematic , crank up the volume
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