Jul 11, 2010

Remember Maxwell Smart’s Cone of Silence? In Japan, in a Burger King restaurant (and I use that word cautiously here), they’ve introduced exactly such a thing. No, it’s not what you think: they’ve introduced iPod docks into some of their booths, so that you may listen to your own music while enjoying the romantic settings of the BK, but...

Jul 11, 2010

And in other news this week, Rich Gatz, a Chicago based lawyer, has developed a new training regime called “ZombieFit”. It is said that this program can help you sustain a zombie attack. It clearly doesn’t come with an IQ test.

Jul 11, 2010

Did you know that, over fifty years ago, a guy named Russel Kirsch scanned a photo of his baby son, and in so doing, he created the very first digital image? And because he was the very first, he needed to decide what the pixels would look like. And he decided that they should be square, and thus today, whenever we look at a digital image, we see it rendered in...

Jul 7, 2010

The Austalian Tax Office’s excellent e-Tax software, available now for the PC platform for about ten years or so, is still not available for that ever increasing group in the population that chooses to use a platform other than Windows, Computerworld Australia reported earlier this week. In that article, James Hutchinson mentioned that the ATO was...

Jul 4, 2010

Courtesy of the good folks at Nikon Australia, we have had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks with their flagship D3s along with a 70-200 VRII lens. First impressions are important, and this combo feels like a tank. The build quality actually reminds of the legendary Nikons of the 1970s and 1980s, and to be perfectly honest, that surprised me. In a good...