Earlier today our grain truck took a turn for the worst when the dash began to smoke. It is currently unknown what started the fire, but the truck was the only loss. Here are a few pictures of the event.
The Blanshard Fire Dept. responded to the call along with a few neighbours who were passing by.
There is little left of the cab; the box is still in decent condition.
More pictures can be found on my Flickr page:
http://flickr.com/photos/wesgill/
There have been arrests made around the world of people using someone else’s unsecured wifi. This itself is a gray area, but what about people using wifi cellphones?
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I was in an unfamiliar place and someone rang my review Skype phone and I answered the call as if I had a cell phone. But wait a minute, how did I manage to get a connection? After some further investigation I determined that the phone was automatically configured to connect any “open” Wi-Fi network it can find. |
It all falls back to the owner of the access point. If you’re not going to protect it, its your fault if, for example, illegal activities are performed on your connection. The insurance companies treat you the same way with car theft. If you leave your keys in it and your vehicle is stolen, generally they won’t cover you. Until there are specific rules or laws made on the subject of open wifi, just hope you aren’t in the wrong place at the wrong time.
External Link:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=699
Photo by: mr_quan_nguyen
Within the next two weeks a special memory card known as Vast will be release to the modchip market. Essentially, you plug it in and it gives you all the functions of a soldered chip, without the voided warranties and risk of destroying your machine.
| The product essentially exploits a flaw in the PS2 memory card system and uses MagicGate technology which means that the totally innovative design will be 100% secure. When inserted, the following operating system will boot giving any PS2/Two access to a wealth of features. |
For me, this means I can play custom Guitar Hero songs on any PS2, anywhere. Dragonforce anyone?
External Link:
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=19915
Photo by: Mickal
According to a environmentalists calculations, the carbon emitted from the production of food that would provide you the energy to walk to the shops is greater than that emitted from the car that you would have driven that same distance.
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The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. “Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere,” he said, a calculation based on the Government’s official fuel emission figures. “If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You’d need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving. |
Now those calculations may be true, but as pointed out by a Digg commenter, this would mean if you were to drive, you wouldn’t have eaten those calories. Personally, when I’m going to walk somewhere I don’t stop to grab a bite before I leave to “fuel up”.
The article does show that there are a lot of contributers to global warming that you perhaps wouldn’t have thought of before, such as paper bags being less efficient than plastic, but there isn’t one specific thing that can be changed to stop carbon emissions. There is always going to be some source of gases somewhere. The only true way to massively cut back is to go back to the stone age.
External Link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece
Photo by: rs3art
