Over at the US Geological Survey the latest quake forecast for the San Francisco Bay area: they say that there is a 62% probability that a 6.7 Richter scale earthquake will hit that area between now and 2032.
Images, summary and technical details are available for the general public. Plus tips how to be prepared for earthquakes.
Although I’m not the greatest fan of the local Truro Daily News, I find it disturbing that they aren’t online anymore. Normally, portions of their items appeared on their own little spot at truro.canada.com, but nowadays that URL has apparently emerged as a ‘Maritimes news’ only, thus covering all news from NB, PEI, Nfld and NS.
So when I was looking for news concerning that bomb scare at the local bank, I only found a small item at the Herald. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less. Not even ‘anchored’, so here’s the specific text:
Now from within your browser: delete any web page (or website) with the click of a button. Remember those days of handcrafted HTML pages? Now you can finally start your Internet presence with a clean sheet! No more laughing relatives, embarassing jokes, blinking text. Do away with your ‘My First Homepage’ syndrome. The new ‘Delete web page’ feature even works from within the Wayback Machine!
Screenshots:
New Delete Button in Mozilla, implemented as a XUL plug-in.
Or use the user-friendly Internet Organizer to move, copy or delete web pages.
All from within your browser! Order your copy NOW.
Note: Does not work within groups.google.com and slashdot.com. However, you can just circumvent this by deleting the complete site. See manual for instructions.
I was just thinking about Fabian, that bunch of clouds that tortured our Commonwealth buddies of Bermuda. It’s not heading our way but will be drifting off into the wide Atlantic, to end up as a major (I almost said ‘pain in the ass rearend’) disturbance in Western Europe. So, Alfons watch the satellite pics. Probably next week, expect a lot of rain.
Heh. That feels good.
And Mozilla guys (link to Asa from Firebird): we definitely need a ‘Delete button’ in the browser, so we can delete those webpages we don’t like. Particularly those old pages with my name on them. Thanks!
Apparantly there was a bombscare at our bank over in town, which led to bizarre situations. First of all a police officer led people in one by one, meaning that (for a Friday) there was a long line-up in front of the bank. Additionally, some bank employees were obviously upset about the whole scare. In my case too many questions were asked and the teller who helped me slammed me for confusing her that my written one looked like a seven. I cautiously explained her that normally everybody in Europe strikes a dash through their sevens to make it stand out from the number one.
Well. At least I do, because our math teacher told us to do so. Of course, I hope they catch the guy that was behind this bomb scare and that they slam their sevens in his ones.
Rather an attempt to explain Kubrick’s movie (earlier), but completely in Flash and with sound. Makes some good points, with good animation but has a couple of annoying comments.
Only watch this if you have already formed an opinion and (thus) have seen the movie before.
I noticed that Krispy Kreme (the major donut maker, store and ‘restaurant’ in America) is making inroads in Europe. Donuts anyone?
Thank you very much, but no: Canadians and others have gotten used to their local Tim Hortons, which offers more than doughnuts and coffee, like the seasonal muffins and treats.
DNA sampling seems to confirm that Borneo elephants are (or rather have become) a subspecies of the elephant race: apparantly Borneo elephants were seperated from their relatives about 300,000 years ago.
Borneo’s ‘pygmee’ elephants are significantly smaller, have relatively bigger ears, larger tails and are generally better-tempered. The WWF has called for protection of the elephants:
“In Borneo the main threat is habitat loss, particularly for cash crops like oil palm and other crops which can attract the elephants. They’re not helped by their lack of aggression. When someone approaches they don’t charge but often back away, almost apologetically, and that increases their vulnerability.”
Over at Reuters an article about the tropical storm Fabian. It’s slowly (or fast) making progress towards Bermuda, possibly threatening the island.
However, the whole article is written in the past tense and for that reason it’s weird to read. For example:
“Fabian carried 120 mph winds and was likely to strengthen in the next two days, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.”
“The government of Bermuda was likely to issue a hurricane watch on Thursday, alerting the colony’s 62,000 residents to possible storm conditions within 36 hours, the hurricane center said.”
Trust me: at this moment, the storm has not even arrived at Bermuda.
Well, the planet Venus will transit the Sun. The good thing is that it happens on my (our) birthday, June 8th of 2004 and apparantly you should be watching it in Rome.
One of the amazing parts of these cosmic events is that it clearly shows a kind of relativity. I mean, sure the planet Venus makes turns around the Sun like any other planet does, but from Earth’s perspective it’s a different matter of course.
Yesterday’s topic of the day about that asteroid (earlier) caused networks to look forward to one of ESA’s missions, Rosetta.
The spacecraft will be launched in February of 2004 and is expected to send a lander (artistic impressions) to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Over three years ago, I was obsessed with the court transcriptions of the DeCSS/DVD case. Reading one of the transcripts I submitted the following quote to Techdirt:
“Transcript of Trial – Day 4, MPAA v. 2600 NY; July 20, 2000:
Q = Mr. Garbus, attorney of 2600.com
A = Ms. Reider, Chief Operations Anti-Piracy, MPAA, witness of plaintiffs
“Q. How did you know to go to the LiViD website, download the material you downloaded in October and November?
A. I’m an investigator. I followed a trail there.
Q. Tell me what the trail was.
A. I read about it on Slashdot.””
Sometimes working and surfing go along quite alright. The original transcript can be found on the EFF’s website.
Via the Herald, news that the hurricane Fabian is slowly moving into the direction of the province of NS. Current predictions suggest that the hurricane will be in our region next Sunday.
Over at the Canadian Weather Office, actually a pretty neat satellite image of the region, with the predicted course of hurricane Fabian.
