Monthly Archives: October 2006

links for 2006-10-28

TMC Radio Documentation on their Portable Radios (tags: gaiss teamsimoco srp9100) TMC Radio (tags: gaiss teamsimoco simoco)

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High-Tech Backpack

This is neat, a backpack that harvests power from the walking motion. How long before we see these in Altitude I wonder?

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Shanghai Maglev

It looks just like any other Train initially. The Track is different: Holy smokes this IS quick: I think it took about 5 minutes and 20 seconds to cover the 30 Kilometers to the Airport. Pity we couldn’t have one … Continue reading

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Taxis

On entering a Taxi, we were normally greeted by a recorded English announcement helpfully telling us to put on our seatbelts. But its impossible, the belt is trapped behind the seat, and the buckle is somewhere under the seat. Once … Continue reading

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Shopping

The markets here are really interesting, lots of stuff on offer. The three most common items seem to be watches, bags or dvds. The buying process is interesting as well. It is expected that you will haggle, for example, we … Continue reading

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links for 2006-10-20

Does nuclear energy produce no CO2 ? (tags: nuclear power myths environment CO2) Welcome to the website STORMSMITH (tags: nuclear energy power envorinment CO2)

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Nuclear Power is both clean and safe.

Brian makes that argument here. Brian, are you sure it is really as cheap as portrayed? Have a read of this, this, and this. Now I won’t pretend to know all the answers or will I pretend that fully understand … Continue reading

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links for 2006-10-19

shim6 (tags: shim6 multihome ipv6)

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Colleagues

Dinner last night. Unfortunatley, after dinner, Nikolas (pictured below) suggested that a beer or two would be nice. One or two would have been fine, but what should you do when its Oktoberfest in Shanghai?

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