It’s not often that I post about something I read on digg but this time I just couldn’t help it.

This story brought tears to my eyes. It’s about a journal that a soldier stationed in Iraq wrote for his son that had just been born, in case he was killed while serving in Iraq. Unfortunately he was killed and the guys wife writes an article about the journal in the New York Times.

I couldn’t think what you would write about in such a journal or even how would you do it? What would it be like if the only way you knew your father was through a journal and what other people told you?

digg – Fallen Soldier leaves 200-page journal for Son. A must read.

NY Times – From Father to Son, Last Words to Live By

Have you seen these cool torch’s that you can shake and they charge? You can buy them at most of the co-op’s, hardware stores and camping stores for about R80 they’re really cool and they work well.

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These tables are awesome.

Basically by rotating the table you can make it larger or smaller, I have to admit that the only way to make the table cooler would be if it was motorised.

DB Flecther furniture Design – Capstan Tables

I feel like I’ve had a lobotomy, Google.com is not working. Google.co.za is though weird… I do hope it comes back soon, I’m not sure I could live without my Interactive Google page.

Update (08/12/2006 9:39)

Yay! It came back online !!!

I’ve taken a short break from Poking my application with a sharp pointy stick… (debugging) and inspired by the pictures of Rachel’s Office garden I thought I would post a pic of the view from my office’s window, yes my office has a Window.

Sorry about the quality, low light and bad cell phone camera don’t mix well.

So yesterday I posted a question about whether a plane on a treadmill runway would take off and most people say No it won’t… which is actually wrong it will take off…

Why?

Well you see people learn by a sort of “pattern recognition” if we don’t know anything about something we’ll make a comparison between it and something we do know something about and then base our assumptions on that. Everyone thinks about running on a treadmill which is very different to putting a plane on a treadmill.
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So you take a rather large playlist with about 60 songs, you then load it up in Listen Gnome hit the shuffle button and then play…

Guess which songs are played one after each other? Sheryl Crow… guess who’s music I’ve decided I don’t like? Sheryl Crow…

At this point you’re wondering how many Sheryl Crow songs there are… 3.

I’m glad I removed the Britney Spears and Aqua songs from the playlist..

A plane equipped with fixed horizontal engines and wheel landing gear is placed on a huge treadmill runway. The treadmill has a clever design and always matches the speed of the plane, but runs in the opposite direction. Will the plane take off and fly or not?

I say the plane will take off (see this digg thread or this one or millions of other ones if you search on google.)

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