Month: February 2008
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Wind turbine woes
David Johnston at PaddlingInstructor.com has put up a video of a Danish wind turbine blowing up in the wind. Direct youtube link here. Aeolian energy is huge here in Denmark and we get a significant part of our electricity from the wind. We have wind turbines plastered all over the landscape, so much that there…
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More photos from Sardinia
My good friend Francesco Muntoni who runs Cardedu Kayak in Sardinia, has started uploading photos from his home island to flickr. A month from now I will be down there again, to visit Francesco and to paddle the magnificent coast. Francesco is currently the custodian of my Skim Distance, seen here at Porto Quau in…
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Venice Dried Out
An extraordinary low tide left parts of the old town almost blocked yesterday, with canals dried out, gondolas stuck in the mud, and public transportation in difficulties. An ordinary low tide in Venice is between -40cm and -30cm but this one reached -72cm when it was at its lowest. At -60cm transportation in the city…
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Microsoft® SilverLight
I just ran into a site that required Microsoft® Silverlight, but I cannot install it: thought it provides “Compelling Cross-Platform User Experiences” Apparently “cross-platform” is a rather restricted concept at Microsoft, meaning “works somewhat on a Mac too”
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Spring at last
It seems spring is on its way around here. Flowers in the forest New leaves My beagle Jamil is taking a mud bath Look how beautiful he has become 🙂 Not everything is beautiful in the forest. Somebody is preparing for another year’s crop of organically grown couch potatoes 🙂 (all photos are taken with…
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The Ultimate Kayak Trip
I sure hope this is a joke or, if not, that they call of the trip. Don’t miss out on their section of “Why” and “Dangers”.
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Going back to Sardinia
I’m heading back to Sardinia soon. My wife Valentina and I will spend the Easter holiday with my in-laws in Palermo, and immediately afterwards we’ll be on the ferry to Sardinia. We’ll spend almost a week with my good friend Francesco Muntoni in the Ogliastra region on the east coast of Sardinia. Valentina then returns…