Month: October 2006
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Flight patterns over North America
It’s been years that I was looking again for images I found and used on September 11, 2001. They were showing flight patterns over the United States of America (the way commercial airline flights criss-cross the country). Here are the animations showing the enourmous density of planes in the US of A skies. Flight Patterns
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Outdoor photography – web sites
Outdoor photography is a great activity. It associates going outside in the wild (or at least in the free nature) and our passion for photography. But it can be also prepared on the web. This is the reason I collected a few good web addresses for web sites taking seriously the outdoor photographer needs and…
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Internationale Zurich Gruppe – it is illegal in Sweeden
IMPORTANT: After my precedent post about the Internationale Zurich Gruppe, it appears that a very important development happened a few days ago with a Warning (“mise en garde”) produced by the very official Finansinspektionen, from Sweeden. If you look at the comments back into my original post, you’ll see that people are having a very…
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Javascript to reload a web page
I recently had a little problem to solve: I want to update (very) quickly the display of a web page. For this kind of job, there is usually the easy solution to write the command in the headers of the HTML page using the META REFRESH tag, but this is acceptable only if you meet…
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China attempted to blind U.S. satellites with laser
Yes! They are shooting very high-power laser flashes at the American satellites in the alleged intention to blind the spy satellites (temporarily or permanently). Nothing is really said as to whether they succeeded. Source: DefenseNews.
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Local news: The lifts broke down
I live in a 30-level building with fourn (4) independent lifts to reach the 200+ flats. Unfortunately, today (after several days of incidents), the last of the lifts broke down. No way to get in or out (apart from climbing by foot 28-level stairs)… Grrrrr! I hate Otis for not being bright at repairing those.