Mail Goggles for Gmail Google introduces a new feature for Gmail which forces the user to perform a sobriety test prior to sending emails out late on weekends. Aims to help prevent drink & email sessions you may later regret.
More training
I went back to Eastern Creek for more Driver Training last week. Many more cars this time around which made things interesting in the earlier sessions, especially when we had an errant F360 Challenge in the group having all kinds of issues getting around corners (I think the nut holding the steering wheel must have been a little loose) but was tearing past everything any time the track resembled anything like a straight.
Felt that I improved over last time, concentrating more on getting the lines right, keeping it smooth and keeping the speed through the corners up. Turn 1 is an absolute cracker in the MINI, a short brake at the end of the straight and then float it through the long fast left-hander.
Google’s 10th birthday timeline A look back at the first ten years of Google.
NZ South Island
We went to NZ last week, our first time to the South Island. Far more beautiful than you could ever imagine. Basing ourselves in Christchurch and Waipara, we made a couple of brilliant drives out to the mountains and up north as far as Kaikoura.
Click photo above to a selection of shots from our trip.
FIA rejects McLaren’s Spa appeal. One of the best races of the year with the final results decided off the track. There was no question that Hamilton backed off and let Kimi through, whether or not he still had an advantage into the next corner is highly debatable. Whilst it’s all good and well of me to say that Lewis should have been patient enough to leave the ultimate pass for later, in the heat of the (racing) moment I’m sure anyone would have done the same thing. Shame for the sport to see it decided in this way.
The 72-Room Bohemian Dream House Photographer Jay Maisel bought a 72 room, 6-story Manhattan building in 1966 for $US102,000. He still lives in it with his wife and daughter. Real life Royal Tenenbaums? (via)
The rebranding of Woolworths Woolies and Safeway to get an all new look.
Vintage Lenses on Digital Cameras. NYT piece on using old manual focus lenses on modern SLRs. My favourite rig is a Nikon 105mm f/2.5ais on my Canon 350D.
Australian is back on the WRC calendar for 2009 with a new event taking place in Northern NSW! Australia will then alternate with NZ for the down-under WRC event each year. (CAMS press release)
The Ultimate Luxury: A Garage. Great article about the premium put on garages in the heart of NYC. I love some of the designs in the photos attached to this article, I am a little partial to having a garage as a feature of any building.
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web. A Wired article on the development of Google’s much anticipated browser.
Google Chrome: A new open-source web browser from Google that uses the same WebKit rendering engine as Apple Safari. Designed for speed and stability by sandboxing each open tab into it’s own memory and process space. (More)
David Pogue’s take on the D90. A real-world take on it, complete with major caveats for using this DSLR as a video camera.
Nikon have announced the D90 digital camera, an 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor SLR that can do video. Some of the sample videos look incredible, the combination of being able to shoot high-iso with interchangable SLR lenses makes this a killer feature. I’ll be checking this camera out when it launches locally.
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