Wired has an interesting article about Engineers without borders, a group that is trying to develop cheap technology solutions for developing parts of the world. The latest idea is a low cost wind turbine to generate electricity for lighting.
Best of all the design is intended to be produced by local manufacturers in the destination country, so it encourages local industry too.
Wired: Engineers Without Borders Bring Tech to Villages Without Power
Found an odd problem with Flash CS3 today. I was working away and I realised that I wasn’t getting anything in the output window from calls to trace().
Just a completely empty output panel.
The answer is simple, make sure Filter Level is set to verbose in the menu on the output panel. If you have it set to None then you won’t get any output.
I’m not quite sure if this is something that I changed or if it is the default, but it isn’t exactly obvious.
I happened to come across this:
Chocolate Russian Roulette [cybercandy uk]
You get a tray with 12 pieces of chocolate. 11 of them are praline filled milk chocolate bullets, the 12 contains a real chilli pepper.