Fractal Tiger

Fractal Tiger, originally uploaded by ricdiggle.

Very cool looking fractal image of a tiger.

Snake bite? Nope pissed off cat that didn't want a bath.

Still hurt tho.

When environmentally friendly turns into corporate marketing.

It's one thing to be environmentally friend, but it's another to try
and name your productions, or coin a new phrase by packaging your
products with a slogan to try and sell things better. "Green Ethernet"
is the latest one that I have stumbled onto. My old linksys switch
died and I needed a new one, I normally order these things online, but
I was at our new Dicksmith powerhouse shop and decided to see if they
had any. They did and it was a reasonable price so I got it. It wasn't
until I got it home that I noticed that it is "Green Ethernet". Their
claim is they use 44% less power. But there is a huge (*) on the claim
and that is "Green Ethernet Technology reduces the consumption of by
automatically detecting the length of attached ethernet cable and the
on/off status of connected devices. When compared to conventional
switches, the Green Ethernet DGS-1005 uses up to 44% less energy when
connected devices are switched off, and up to 27% less energy under
normal computer usage of 10 hours per day when connected via 20 meter
ethernet cables."

So what I get out of that, is if you have huge runs of cables and
don't turn on your computers, it'll save you 44%. Otherwise it's just
a switch.

Hot Cat

This is where she sleeps now instead of going outside. It's right in
the middle of 2 wind tunnels that are created by the hallway and the
computer room/laundry.

Engrish is a wonderful entertaining language.

Awhile ago I bought a remote controlled helicopter and it came with
instructions. At first glance they were in english, but later reading
revealed that while the words were indeed english, the way in which
they were strung together were not. So here is point 4 of my
instructions, it's the best one out of all of them.

Interesting names for lift companies.

Again while in sydney, I came across this sign in a lift. I thought
the name of the company was funny.

Wild Oats leaving Sydney Harbour

While I was down in sydney recently I was walking along the harbour
near luna park when I saw the yacht wild oats leaving. It looks like
as they were passing the opera house they were showing off by tilting
the boat in the water.