15-17 August 2008: The *First* Düsseldorf Balloon Festival
Here are some photos from the day we *almost* went for a balloon ride over Düsseldorf. Taken from the Oberkassel side of the Rhine, you can see the Altstadt, TV and the Mediahafen in the background.
A great little guide to getting married in Germany click
Subprime Securities Market Began as `Group of 5′ Over Chinese, Representatives of five of Wall Street’s dominant investment banks gathered around a blonde wood conference table on a February night almost three years ago. Their talks over take-out Chinese food led to the perfect formula for a U.S. housing collapse. click
…And how it ended. click
Most grimly dark British thing I’ve seen in a while. It tells the story of the build up to nuclear war from the perspective of the average person, and then the humanitarian disaster that comes afterward.
Truly shocking …And we were worried about the threat of terrorism?
Google video
“A basic Android application has no permissions associated with it, meaning it can not do anything that would adversely impact the user experience or any data on the device. To make use of protected features of the device, you must include in your AndroidManifest.xml one or more tags declaring the permissions that your application needs.
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At application install time, permissions requested by the application are granted to it by the package installer, based on checks with trusted authorities and interaction with the user. No checks with the user are done while an application is running: it either was granted a particular permission when installed, and can use that feature as desired, or the permission was not granted and any attempt to use the feature will fail without prompting the user.” source
I wonder if Google will do as bad a job as Sun when it comes to letting normal programmers access important API’s?
PowerToys contains Tweak UI, allowing customisation of the XP user interface including menu speed, window animation and other settings. click
Why the UK (and other countrys) need to look at where they are going to get their energy. click
