Gorgeous picture today from NASA's Terra satellite. Taken about 8 hours ago, it shows a snow covered Great Britain. For those not in the know, we've probably been hit with more snow than we've had in decades, this picture nicely captures it. Now if only our country was more horizontal, at least then we could use it as a wallpaper. Higher resolution (right down to 250 metres per pixel) versions are available from NASA....
Some guy going under the name Chas_chas_123 thinks Richard Dawkins isn't sure on his "faith". Seemingly unaware that atheism is not based on faith. Everyone is born an atheist, and everyone is an atheist in respect to most of the gods that we've ever dreamt up. Faith is choosing to believe in something, like a supreme intergalactic dictator, without evidence. Atheism is simply the default position towards theistic superstition. Arch-atheist Richard Dawkins recently supported a campaign saying "...
Continuing in the questions for "evolutionists" series. How do evolutionists resolve the problem of galaxies and stars being billion of lights years away from Earth? When the universe is only six thousand years old? Simple, the universe is not 6000 years old. The universe is 13.73 (+/- .12) billion years old. Christians believe that God accelerated the speed of light in the past, making it at least a million times faster for a few thousand years, so that we would be able to enjoy the starlight at night....
...According to Dave from Portsmouth. From BBC News' Have your say. Well known not to bring out the brightest of people. Dave writes: We had acid rain in the 80's. That was quickly followed by the o-zone layer. Why are these two things never mentioned today? Climate change is a mere excuse to tax us to death. Dave, referring to past environmental "scares" attempts to paint global warming with the same brush, well at least his mental version of this brush, thinking they were merely fads which just went out of fashion....
Since Catherine got the HTC HD2 I've been hoping that HTC would release a keyboard equipped phone in the Touch Pro series that sported the 1Ghz processor, and the capacitive screen would be a nice too, and of course Touch Flo/Sense that supported landscape mode. The good news is HTC's product roadmap for the first half of next year has leaked. The bad news is, there's no sign of any such phone....
Just a heads up for those who have been waiting for the Office Mobile 2010 bits to show up on the UK Windows Mobile Marketplace, they're up now. Previously it was limited to the US marketplace. Still waiting to see what the deal is with the OneNote Mobile client. The desktop version seems to have at least temporarily lost the ability to install one to a mobile device.
A few of you probably know I've been after storing OneNote Notebooks on the web for some time now, we've had the ability to stick them on the local network for sharing with other users, but I really need them on the web. Since the main collaborator I work with isn't on my local network and I'm always having to sync his changes back manually. OneNote 2010 has almost gotten there now, which will be using SkyDrive for storage....
Well after years of complaining it looks like Multimap is no longer linked from the UK Bing page. Instead it links to Bing Maps directly. How it should have been. Best of all Bing Maps now have Ordnance Survey maps too, which previously only Multimap had. What's so cool about Ordnance Survey maps? You're not going to find the Hundred Stone, the old dismantled railway, old Roman villas or Jack the Treacle Eater on a "...
The BBC are running this as their lead story under technology at the moment. How the hell is this worthy of being the lead technology news item at the moment. Microsoft have always banned modified consoles from Xbox Live for the last 7 years since the service was launched has anyone given it this much coverage when the other batches of users were banned? No. What's worse, the BBC even features the opinions of one Radio 1 listener who was banned and turn it into an entire article....
While going through my logs last month I came across a rather interesting search query that somebody used to find my blog. why didn't dinosaurs evolve again after the big bang After a little chuckle I carried on, however I did jot it down for future use. I suppose fundamentally it represents the terrible truth that ignorance dominates in our society. Nothing demonstrates this more than Sherri Shephard: We knew the shape and size of the Earth 2200 years ago, it is disappointing to see not everyone is aware of it today....