God – Worlds Greatest Inventor

Lets face it anyone who can tale a rib from Adam and create a loudspeaker is someone special

Makeup of your morning coffee

Have you ever wondered what is really in an everyday cup of coffee?
It’s not what you think.

To find out more, follow the link
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-10/st_coffee

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American Pie and The Day the Music Died

American Pie, THAT song by Don McLean, no matter what you’re doing when it comes on the radio you walk over and turn it up. For most people I imagine they don’t even understand the significance behind it, what triggered McLean to write it or to what those strange poetic lyrics actually refer.

I decided to find out.

Now I’ve always known the song referred to the plane crash that killed rock legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper (a.k.a. Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.) but not to the circumstances surrounding why they were on the plane(1) and what caused it to go down(1).

An interpretation of the lyrics as explained back in the 70’s and reproduced for the net, it’s a fascinating read.
http://user.pa.net/~ejjeff/pie.html

Wiki entry’s relating to the song and the people involved
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Holly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Valens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bopper

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Salads

My Sister likes salads so much she’s booked a Cesar for next month!

I wanna fixie

I used to be heavily into cycling before I started cabbing. Back then I always said if I got back into cycling from an extended break it would be on a fixie (a fixed gear single speed bike) just like the European pro’s used to ride in their winter training.

Well I’ve been thinking about getting back into cycling and I’ve found the bike that fits the bill. It’s from Specialized the company that supplied Mario Chippolini. It’s called the Langster.

I saw one in a shop here for $900 and I’ve just found it on the net for $1099

Check it out here

Firefox releases

Unlike other browsers Firefox is constantly being tested and improved. Here is a list of the release dates for the current version 2 of their browser.

• Fx 2.0.0.2 – RELEASED: February 23rd
• Fx 2.0.0.3 – RELEASED: March 20th
• Fx 2.0.0.4 – RELEASED: May 30th
• Fx 2.0.0.5 – RELEASED: July 16t
• Fx 2.0.0.6 – RELEASED: July 30th
• Fx 2.0.0.7 – RELEASED: September 18th
• Fx 2.0.0.8 - RELEASED: October 18th
• Fx 2.0.0.9 – RELEASED: November 1st
• Fx 2.0.0.10 – RELEASED: November 26th
• Fx 2.0.0.11 – RELEASED: November30th
• Fx 2.0.0.12 – TBA

We now know of course that the release of Fx 2.0.0.12 will occur on Feb 12th.

It makes sense to move over to Firefox when on occasion a problem has been found in a point release they have move straight onto fixing it and getting it out to the people. Check the time between releases .10 and .11 as just one example.

Firefox update due

According to Firefox Extension Guru’s blog

Fx 2.0.0.12

Release Schedule Updated:

• Code Freeze: Friday, January 25
• QA Testing: Tuesday, January29
• Beta Channel Release: Tuesday, February 5
• Scheduled to Release: Tuesday, February 12

Be sure to click the update button in your browser.

Thats >> Help >> Check for Updates in your Firefox browser!

Evolution and Medical Science

Have you heard of the little girl with 4 arms and 4 legs?

news.com.au article

Post surgery doing well

Now I have only just read this little girls story and it is only now that I understand what led to her being born the way she is/was.

Prior to today I had only heard that a little girl had been born with double sets of limbs and she was being operated on to remove the extra limbs. Hearing this started me thinking.

Is it possible that medical science with all it’s advancements could actually hinder human evolution?

Let me explain. We now have the knowhow to transplant organs, suck out excess fat and fix deformaties such as cleft palate and other facial and bodily disfigurements.

But what if in doing so we are actually stopping the evolutionary process? We are supposed to have descended from apes. Do you really think we have reached our peak? What if we are meant to continue to evolve and to become something more?

It really makes you think.

My current Firefox add-ons list

Adblock Plus 0.7.5.1 replaced with HostMan / HostServer
Better Gmail 1.0
English (Australian) Dictionary 0.2
FEBE 5.0
FlashGot 0.6.8
Google Toolbar for Firefox 3.0.20070525W
Morning Coffee 1.26
OpenBook 1.3.4.1
Screen grab! 0.93
StumbleUpon 3.06
View Cookies CS 1.0.7

ZamZar – Web based file conversion

Here’s something I reckon allot of people are going to find useful. A web site that converts files from 1 format to another. Need an example? How about converting all your real player movies over to windows media player format or your you tube vids to win media ?? Images to jpeg I can’t begin to workout how many hours I spent searching for a program to do this for me.

Here’s the link it’s called ZamZar