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Friday, 30 July 2010

Dalian Oil Spill Pictures

Dalian oil spill workers

The Big Picture has some good pics from the effort to clean up the oil spill in Dalian.

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Monday, 26 July 2010

WELCO ME

WELCO ME

WELCO ME

Art gallery Wukang Lu Shanghai.

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Friday, 23 July 2010

Shanghai Apple Store

shanghai apple store

Apple's first store in Shanghai has opened in Pudong in the IFC Mall. All praise the Steve. We took a quick gander the other night. It was packed. "Genius" bar was full too. It is conveniently just round the corner from City Super (quality supermarket from Hong Kong, also newly opened, hey the IFC has only just opened its doors, everything is newly opened in Shanghai.) So, you can visit the Apple Store for some quality tech produce then pop to City Super for quality groceries and baking produce. Mall-tastic heaven.

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Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Tooth Part 2

tooth abutment

Part 1 is here

So after about 4 months I went back to the dentist. He bascially screwed a screw into the implant which will act like a spacer for the tissue to grow around. Creating space where the crown will be placed. In a couple of weeks should have a tooth again.

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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Adobe Acrobat Update Hell

adobe demonstrate the fine art of ui design

The above is a screenshot from the end of the Adobe Acrobat update process on a Mac. Adobe thinks you want to view PDF documents in your browser via their plugin. No you don't. Do you? I mean come on. Repair? Huh? Even if you've unset the "View in the browser" option in Acrobat's preferences. Anyway, notice the "Repair Setup" window does not focus. No problem, you think. I'll just click on the window and give it focus, uncheck the box, click Continue and this experience will be over. But no! No I say. You can't click on the window.…

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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

The Wiggles In Hong Kong

I flew to Hong Kong to see The Wiggles...

The Wiggles drum kit

But all I saw was the back of a load of selfish parents' heads...

selfish parents

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Sunday, 20 June 2010

Vuvuzela Gets Blown On BBC Sport Home Page

vuvuzela getting blown

What's wrong with this picture? Taken from the BBC Sport home page today. See below for picture in context.

bbc sport and its vuvvuzela

I guess given the complaints the BBC has been receiving about the noise they'd like to blow up all the vuvuzelas...

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Thursday, 20 May 2010

The Take Charge Defense

Fascinating video from Protect on taking charge of a situation in which you are attacked. They use the example of a shooter entering a classroom - attack the attacker rather than cower and be shot. It seems to work in the video. Of course, they're all large ex-Israeli soldiers so you mileage may vary.

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Thursday, 20 May 2010

Patent Absurdity

Good documentary on the absurd state of software patents and its impact on new business and therefore growth.

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Thursday, 29 April 2010

Tibet Sky Burial

This is not for the squeamish. You have been warned...

The Sky Burial is the traditional funeral in Tibet. The process: the body is cut up and left to vultures. It's a circle of life thing. It is very rare to witness this. Let alone be allowed to take pictures. Nevertheless mbv travel has a photo set of the whole thing. Please don't click if your eating lunch.

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