In the latest newsletter from
Google Earth Sightseer, it features the world's largest fingerprint.
It is in a recreational park in Brighton and Hove in the U.K. reportedly 38m wide!
One comment on the site reads: "The ‘Fingermaze’ was created by Chris Drury. It was created by putting Yorkstone into limemortar in a Cretan labyrinth, an ancient symbol representing renewal, which Chris has allied to the patterns of our fingerprints. The sculpture also represents the significance in our connection to the earth through touch."
Here is the link to the original article.
http://googlesightseeing.com/2007/12/05/worlds-largest-fingerprint/Here is the Google Earth KMZ File for you to see the fingerprint for yourself.Labels: Real Life News, Strange News
By: RexMan | Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 10:53:00 AM | |
Referring to the following articleEvery year the motor biking community gets together and does a Toy Run for charity. The entry fee for each bike is a toy which gets donated to charity.
How the event is organized is basically each bike meets at a venue in their local area and they drive together in convoy to a venue. Last year it was Westbank Raceway in Germiston for the Gauteng region.
This year they are trying break the Guinness World Record of the most bikes in one place. Currently the record stand at 22,000. What they have done is canceled all the toy runs in the country and hold only one event in Gauteng.
The event will be held on 25th November 2007 and more information can be found at http://www.toyrun.org.za/. Last year they organized over 45,000 toys!
Labels: Real Life News
By: RexMan | Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 10:45:00 AM | |
[ VIA YAY Bash Microsoft again! ]Microsoft SA has said that there have been difficulties for resellers and end-users around the launch of its Vista operating system. Why are we not shocked!
Furthermore they say there "have been problems with its communications to its channel." Microsoft have always been bad at communicating with system stake holders and channel resellers, so I am still not surprised.
They further indicate that "these communications were not properly planned." They have planned three campaigns for this year to rectify the situation.
The article quoted Tarsus CEO Pierre Spiese "Local distributors, OEMs and resellers have been battling with bulk image blasting, the time and expense of downgrading unhappy customers back to Windows XP, and second-line support."
"Vista doesn't support bulk image blasting; it's just not here yet. We believe the product was launched too soon. [Microsoft has] a lot of catching up to do. Corporates are buying new machines with Vista on and downgrading to XP, in anticipation of Vista being ready in the next two to three years. They are buying the licence, but do not plan to use it until the product is ready."
The article goes on to say that Spies says the situation is interfering with the company's business model. "We're taking serious flak. We've got people arriving in droves to downgrade."
He says the company is downgrading roughly 25% of the Vista machines it sells. "Consumers are not taking a long-term view like the corporates are, they just want it gone."
And rightly so in my view. Each new version of M$ operating system just seems to suck a little bit more than the one before, and tie you a little bit deeper into M$ strangle hold.
Right penguins! Quick March!
Labels: Opinion, Real Life News
By: RexMan | Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 9:30:00 AM | |
In the latest newsletter from Google Earth Sightseer, it features the world's largest fingerprint.
