This is pretty cool.
Electricity consumption in the country was fully covered by solar, wind and hydro power in an extraordinary 107-hour run that lasted from 6.45am on Saturday 7 May until 5.45pm the following Wednesday, the analysis says.
See the article here.
Interesting video talking about Ansel Adams and his techniques.
See it here on Aeon Videos.
A picture of our cat, Alice. She’s a sweet, gentle little thing. In this picture I think she’s hungry. In that case she gets very, very intent on the goal.
I’ve been using Apple News quite a bit. I like it. I am, however, a power user of Feedly.
The Loop posted a link to an article about how to use Apple News. Nice article though the font face used on the site is a bit small for me. Thank goodness for ‘command-+’.
I thought that this was an interesting idea:
In fact I’m hoping that Apple bring News to the desktop in the next version of OS X.
See the article here.
Don’t like cutting down trees but these got in the way of a new retaining wall. Can’t have the driveway sliding down the hill.
Here it is. The tank, seat and number plate are elsewhere but you can see the tires and frame as well.
A jigsaw puzzle. I’m going to inventory everything, purchase the necessary manuals and then, slowly, get started.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. – attributed to Mark Twain
As always, very true.
Nice article about how the TimesMachine was built. See here.
I saw a presentation in California (I think) by Evan Sandhaus, one of the authors of this article, about the TimesMachine. He did a great presentation and explanation of the product and I the idea of using mapping is pretty cool.
The answer? Educated people and wages.
See Gruber’s article here. I think that discussion becomes very interesting as wages rise in China. As Gruber points out the jobs these folks are doing might be defined as ‘menial’ but the jobs take skill. So the Chinese market offers the both skilled labor and until recently, inexpensive labor.
As China’s economy changes and wages become higher low cost assembly will (and is moving) move to other countries. Do other countries offer the same combination that China does or is the ‘savings’ that a company takes partially eaten by training of employees?
Got this link via John Gruber @ Daring Fireball. Will be doing tests shortly to verify the perfection of this recipe. Oh, and yes, I know about the Gin/Vodka debate.
