California Fire season 2008
June 29th, 2008
A few weeks ago I noticed on my rss feed from RTE a story about a fire in Norway. Its was a 5000 acre fire and was the biggest fire there in 88 years if memory serves me correctly. Being an irregular event, they were struggling a bit to put it out. When I heard this, it reminded me of my surprise when I learned about the fire seasons here in California and the completely different scale of fires here. At the same time that fire was burning in Norway, there were 2 large fires here in California totaling about 60000 acres. A week or 2 before that, there was another fire in the Santa Cruz mountains which was several thousand acres as far as I remember. The Bay Area has been shrouded in smoke for the last week in which there has been over 1000 fires around the state. In this past week alone, over 300000 acres have burnt! In one week alone! That is 30% greater than the size of County Dublin back home!
This year is particularly bad - in fact from what I hear it has been getting progressively worse year on year. This year is shaping up to be a record fire year. We seem to be a few months ahead of schedule with the amount of burning that has already occurred so far. But thats the price for living where there is little rain fall I suppose.
Hopefully the 4th of July celebrations don’t add to the flames…
Vuze at the FCC Hearings on Network Management
February 28th, 2008
A few words from Gilles on the vuze blog.
http://blog.vuze.com/index.php/2008/02/27/tomorrows-internet/
Browser Search plugin for Vuze
September 14th, 2007
This is just something I put together for my own benefit, but maybe others will find it useful too. Get it here
Sanctuary
September 3rd, 2007
Any scifi fans out there should check out Sanctuary on Vuze - from the makers of Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis. As far as I know its not available anywhere else yet. The SD version is free over the Labor Day weekend (sorry, I should have posted about it here 2 days ago). Get it now! Enjoy!
Update to JSMin.java
August 21st, 2007
For anyone using JSMin.java, I’ve made a small update to JSMin.java to match with the latest jsmin.c. Thanks to Manuel Dominguez Sarmiento for pointing out the mismatch between the two.
Century of the Self
August 3rd, 2007
Quite an interesting watch.
http://www.vuze.com/details/ZFOUIGXPVMXDJTY2OCBKC3ACLWR4RDR2.html
PS: I’m strictly talking about the video being interesting, not the poster’s views at the end of the description.
Miscellaneous stuff …
August 3rd, 2007
It so long since I’ve posted anything… Vuze has come along quite a bit since the last post.
Anyway, I came across an interesting post this morning on the Corrib gas project @ http://www.vuze.com/details/25YJHHUJWL2MZSNEUPIUDV6PX5L4G2UF.html
I’ll have to check some of the urls mentioned in the credits to see if theres more info, but its definitely worth a watch.
Zudeo revamp news
April 1st, 2007
Have a look here for news about the zudeo revamp
PS: Have a look at the beta channel on zudeo for a sample of some of our premium content.
Azureus launching new Zudeo service today
December 4th, 2006
Launch day today! Check out Azureus’ new client and web site at www.zudeo.com I won’t go into details here since there are lots of articles around giving the juicy details.
Javascript and the browser DOM
November 23rd, 2006
Wow! Its been ages since I’ve written anything here, but I found something thats definitely worth mentioning. Check out the recent About Web design article that links to 3 videos of Douglas Crockford talking about the browser DOM
Great stuff!
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