CNN has a story about the movie ratings for the weekend in the USA. Unsurprisingly, Harry Potter came first. What did surprise me was that 2nd was a biography movie about Johnny Cash. Number four was the Chicken Little animated movie which I thought would have been more popular. [This movie was being advertised when I was in the USA in september].

One of my friend MSN’ed me… He has just got a job at Brisbane airport as a radio technician. I am still waiting to see when he starts his new job, but as soon as he does I think I will be having to go up there for lunch one day, but I will have to find a work reason to visit [P.S. Just heard – he starts January next year].

Reading BoingBoing, I found that Raytheon has a new way to get rid of mines in a field – they are planning to send a shell into the minefield which seperates near the ground into hundreds of metal arrows which set off all the mines. Sure, this is destructive, but it is a whole lot safer I think than having humans clear the mine field.

I was speaking to a friend in the USA earlier today about hardware and software for volunteer emergency services, which we both have an interest in. Anyway in his latest reply he suggested I look at the CNN home page about a job he was called out for this morning his time – his first bad accident for a long time. The story can be found here but a lot of that is just speculation at the moment.