Originally from John Dvorak, here is a snapshot of a ‘beast’ that may one day travel the skies.

Casinos, gyms and double beds – but will enough airlines get on board?

A major frustrations of standardisation advocates is multi-media. Anywhere you go on the Web, Window$ is assumed to be your operating system and their specialised formats too. Arguably, a dominant impact of lacking standards is associated with audio and video. There is, however, a shareware GUI-based program that can convert a common video file into an animated GIF. Such files can be viewed on any platform with the most basic support for Web graphics. Included are my example of AVI2GIF conversion and a link to the convertor’s homepage.

Many pictures in these pages come from stock.xchng. It is a world-wide openly-shared resource of personal photos. I have collected imagery of amusing real-world signs as found below.

In the government we trust

But can the dog read English?

Maybe that’s a little easier for dogs to comprehend

Shall I come in or not?

Honey, I think we’d better turn left here

My beloved grandmother Luna turned 86 87 yesterday. The family and yours sincerely send her the best of wishes.

Google Suggest is a tool which many Web surfers are talking about these days. Just when you think that Google is the best way of searching the World Wide Web, you find out about a more responsive user interface. Google Suggest will propose completions for search phrases, thereby guiding a user who is less than certain about how to find desired information. The project is still in its testing phase, but it looks promising.

Brought to my attention by Scott Tobkes.

An item from the BBC reports on the severity of global warming, which appears to exceed past expectations.

We are all seeing rather less of the Sun, according to scientists who have been looking at five decades of sunlight measurements.

They have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface has been gradually falling.

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That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable.

It has been possible for quite some time to convert Palm data into well-linked HTML. At present, free tools are available for full conversion of AddressBooks and Memos. AddBook2Web does the former conversion and Memo2Web can handle the latter. The results (see example below) are rather raw HTML code which is easy to navigate through.

Cited by: PalmAddict