Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Right, I think I need to pack Hawaiian shirts for next week, looking at the weather forecast... Though perhaps I should squeeze in some jumpers to deal with the aircon.

Not looking forward to flying cattle class in a "holiday" layout 777...

Mating swallows.

Jersey
April 2006

...in a house made from a 747.

It's a sensible approach to recycling the metal from an old airliner - use the body and wings to build a house. The wings alone make a rather effective roof (as anyone who's sheltered under a plane at an airshow can testify...).

The client, a woman, requested curvilinear/feminine shapes for the building. The progenitor of the building’s form was envisioned as a floating curved roof. It soon became apparent, that in fact, an airplane wing itself could work. In researching airplane wings and superimposing different airplane wing types on the site to scale, The wing of a 747, at over 2,500 sq. ft., became an ideal configuration to maximize the views and provide a self supporting roof with minimal additional structural support needed.

They ended up buying an entire airliner, and then dismembering it, with several components being used in one piece - the nose becoming a meditation temple...
Link found via the BBC

I've finally got Exchange's new push email set up on my phone (and on the house mail server). I have to say, it rocks. It works really well and I'm getting mail on my phone before it pops up on my desktop PC.

That's not to say there weren't some rocks along the way.

Everything began smoothly enough. Downloading and installing the AKU2 Windows Mobile 5.0 update working on my SPV C600 was fairly straightforward. I still need to reinstall some favourite applications, as the ROM install wipes the phone's memory, but that's pretty much par for the course.

Unfortunately for those of us who self sign our server certificates Orange has kept the ROM update tightly locked down, and the old certificate unlocking methods have stopped working. I ended up using the automated certificate installation tools that Orange have set up for registered developers to create a signed copy of my server certificate in a CAB file. It's easy enough to sign up for the service, but I really shouldn't have to be delving into the heart of my PKI to get this working...

I'm still waiting for AKU2 updates for the MDA Vario and the MDA Pro...

Next, on the mobile home email front, is getting our own Blackberry Enterprise Server up and running...

Close up of a tulip.

Jersey
April 2006

...comes a damn fine Japanese beer. We shared a bottle on a recent trip to Las Vegas...

HITACHINO NEST BEER is a brand of our quality top-fermented ales. We started brewing HITACHINO NEST BEER in 1996 with a hint of our traditional sake brewing method. Since then, we've made a name and won numerous awards worldwide. HITACHINO has established the market in the U.S.A. since 2000, is now well known not only as a of unique "Owl" character, but also its innovative brews.

It also has the cutest little owl logo...



One for feorag, methinks...