From BBC News:
To get the scale of the detector, look at the man standing in front of the picture near the bottom of the photo.
Big Science
Push, baby. Push!
It has been a while since my last proper geek post, so I just have to do one to balance the 'force'.
After the saga I had with getting Blackberry Connect to work with my E61, I was more or less given up on push email on my phone. I've been getting emails via POP and IMAP but the native email client on E61 sucks at dealing with lost connection/reconnection. Once it detects a data connection is lost, the automatic retrieval schedule will be switched off and requires to be switched on again manually. WTF?
But thanks to e-series.org blog, I've found Mail2Web last week. It's a free Exchange mail service and the best thing about it (apart from being free) is that they also expose the mobile synchronisation URL so once I installed Mail for Exchange on my E61, I was able to get push email on my phone. Moreover, Mail for Exchange works just fine with spotty connection. It will just reconnection, re-sync without any complaints. The only downside with it is that it drains battery slightly faster than the native clients since it is pretty 'chatty' with the Exchange server and thus uses a bit of juices. Not a big deal since I have chargers at home and at the office but it may be a big deal for some people.
I know I need new computer when…
- Web browsers (Firefox or Safari) run slow when iTunes is playing.
- I can type faster than the browser can display sometimes (think back to the 14.4kbps modem era).
- iPhoto takes forever to load, to save changes of photos, or to exports to Flickr.
- Video podcast in 320×240 resolution drops frames when played. Don't even think about HD or H.264 encoded video.
- And most important of all, eiron has a faster computer than either of mine!
Having said all that, my G4 800MHz Titanium PowerBook has been with me for over 4 years. And forcing it to drive my new Dell LCD monitor @ 1900×1200 resolutions doesn't help the speed matter either.
Now, should I prolong the suffering and wait till after Christmas to see if there is any bargains or price drop? Or I can just pick up one of those speedy Mac Pro from the SoHo Apple Store this coming Black Friday, especially with the 10% discount?
Surpise of the week
As with every payday Friday, I woke up two days ago and went to check on my bank account on the net. Sure enough my paycheck had been deposited but when I double checked with Quicken, I noticed there was more than a few hundreds dollars extra this time. I thought the stupid HR has screwed up and somehow forgot to take out some deductibles; perhaps my 401k, or my health plan. But I didn't pay much attention (punt not intented) to it as I would find out when they handed out the payslip in the afternoon.
I didn't get the chance to find out though. Mid-morning, my immediate boss took me to the meeting room (the very same office that the director of development vacate not so long ago, we turned it into our meeting room) and informed me that I had been promoted to senior manager and along with that, a pay rise which, of course, explains the extra money in the paycheck!
So I guess I'll have to actually put more effort into my work, administrative-wise, since they are paying extra for it! 😀
QotD: Top 5 Video Games
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
- Geoff Grammond's Grand Prix 2 – I must have spent years of my life on it. Just ask eiron!
- Syndicate & American Revolt expansion pack – best 3rd person shootup strategy game. Ever!
- SimCity
- Halo 2 – Great multiplayer game.
- Links
Lost in Colonisation 