Last night I was watching the news I saw the results of the Sydney to Hobart race. They mentioned that the yacht AAPT had destroyed it’s book making it to hobart, at a cost of $80k. They also noted that the skipper tended to drop out of the race and then win the Newport to Port Macquarie race. The interesting thing here is that the wife of the Skipper used to be my boss in Pacific Power at one stage.

Right now I am trying a program called AVI2DVD which converts AVI files to an ISO file ready to be recorded onto DVD. The one issue with this software is that the capabilities to pull seperate AVI files into a DVD player but does not break them down into the original AVI files…

Steven Speilberg has Outraged a the terrorist who masterminded the attack on the Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics. The terrorist was annoyed that Speilberg did not consult him on the new thriller movie named ‘Munich’ that Speilberg is working on.

The Economist has an article on ‘Hacks’, mostly at Universiry. This is a good read – and mentions an book about Hacks at MIT. I have two of the books from MIT about Hacks, and both are great reads. Hack’s for information are fun things done mostly by students such as putting a complete car on the roof of a building…