Archive | April, 2009

Bird’s Eye View – Literally

By on April 10, 2009 in nature

Watch at 5:50 and after 7:00 mark for some speed. This video via Chase Jarvis Blog.

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Biology Video Like You’ve Never Seen

By on April 9, 2009 in Health

The liver is big! This page says: The liver is the largest and most massive internal organ of the human body. The mass of a healthy human liver is approximately 1.2–1.5 kg (2.4–3.0 lb). The liver’s mass comprises one-fortieth to one-fiftieth of a total adult body’s weight and one-eighteenth of the body’s weight during infancy. [...]

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Contribute to Microfinance in Developing Countries

By on April 6, 2009 in Uncategorized

I found these sites via The Strobist. Kiva and here’s a documentory. Wikipedia says: Kiva allows microfinance institutions around the world, called “Field Partners”, to post profiles of qualified local entrepreneurs on its website. Lenders browse and choose an entrepreneur they wish to fund. Kiva aggregates loan capital from individual lenders and transfers it to [...]

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Ukulele

By on April 5, 2009 in ukulele

Someone told me about the Wellington International Ukelele Orchestra and that is them above. Ukulele is like the banjo, you can’t take sad lyrics seriously. Well, I bought a Uke and brought to Kuwait for mostly everyone else to play.

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Data Rot

By on April 4, 2009 in Photography

Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Will you children or grandchildren be able to see the photos you are taking now? So every five or ten years, you should move it onto a different format, like from VHS tape to DVD. And that’s fine, but then DVD is already obsolete, there’s Blu-ray, and so what’s [...]

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Coffee

By on April 3, 2009 in Calgary, coffee

Update An article in the Calgary Herald today said they are expanding into new locations. In fact they have to as the their current location in the Calgary Farmers Market will close when the market closes for good in a few months. The article is also below.

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British Museum – Shah ‘Abbas

By on April 2, 2009 in travel

Hmm, I’m flying through London and will have a 9 hour stopover so maybe I should go see this? But the weather is going to be very British. You must have a browser that supports iframes to view the BBC weather forecast British Museum – Shah ‘Abbas. Via The Travel Photographer

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Hi-tech is distracting our brains

By on April 1, 2009 in psychology

From the Guardian A study has shown that one in five suffers very badly due to the distractions triggering our brain and ending up with us procrastinating. Here is a good post with recommendations on how to cope with multitasking and other issues.

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