A friend provided a link to a video of what must be one of the most dopey pilots in the world. The pilot managed to clip a tree on landing. OK, no problem. Not too much damage done. Easy mistake to make. What is priceless is the fact that he hit another tree on takeoff, and this time managed to total the plane. And all this is unbelieveably on video. As the report says, one of the passengers earned 0.08 frequent flyer miles. Speaking to another friend from overseas about this, his comment was “Hmmm………. never done that one.I have however landed and noticed some greenery on the wheels. Must’ve been on takeoff in the long grass.”

FORBES has a list of the Fictional 15, some of the 15 richest people in fiction. This hillarious list contains biographies of Lex Luthor, C. Montgomery Burns,Scrooge McDuck, Jed Clampett and heaps more. A good read. Well worth it. FoundationTV in the UK has a short how-to on how to make your own Scratch Cards with a message underneath some paint. Cute.

Michigan Telephone has details on how to install telephone cabling in a house, with particular emphasis on VoIP. Cool article. If more people knew what was in here I would not need to climb under houses and into the roofs of friends to install network cabling and the like like I did yesterday at one point. [OK, well, yesteday I did not need to get into a roof, and the clearance under the house was good which made things easy, and the job was quick. Normally it is not quite so straightforward!]