Photonic Torpedoes

Burj Dubai is now the world’s tallest building. It’s final planned highest is still undisclosed.

Rule 24 is a possible recourse the next time my flight is delayed or cancelled. Though not as strong as it used to be, many airlines will put you on a competitors flight if doing so will get you to your destination faster than waiting for its own service.

LIDAR (Light detection and ranging) uses light to measure the distance to an object. It also has applications in geography

The Canadian Dollar is today worth more than the U.S. Dollar, about $1.03 to $1.00

I relearned that my PowerBook G4 (FW800 1.25 GHz) is fickle with some RAM chips. Even though the specs look the same, some chips don’t handle the memory slewing the computer use to automatically adjust processing and electricity consumption. The follow 1GB makes and model number are recommended:

• Crucial - CT368079
• Samsung - K4H560838E
• Hynix - HY5DU121622AT
• Micron - MT46V16M16

It’s good I found this out because I was one click away from buying the wrong chip. Now it looks like it’ll cost me $20-40 more for compatible version. I’ll probably go with the Samsung from OWC. They’ve been good to me in the past.

Earthbooker.com provides a kml file for booking hotels from within the Google Earth interface.

India has 415 living languages with 24 of them being spoken by a million of more people. Many of its political divisions/states are built around the local language. Southern India and part of Sri Lanka developed the Dravidian-based languages independently of the Indo-European tradition (Sanskrit), but it eventually merged with it.