My father is heading off to Thailand today for work. He gets back on thursday – and is going there for some negotiations with his business. Seems to me like a real long way to go for just a few days. Then again some people have said that a week is too short to go to the USA…

There is an article in the SMH about how the village of Baafuloto in the country of Gambia in Africa is welcoming shuttle missions, and hoping that one of them has serious problems. Baafuloto is an emergency landing location for the shuttle and frankly, they would like the publicity and attention.

According to the BBC, a heart surgeon is using drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci to develop a new technique for heart surgery, only 500 years after the sketch was made. TechFreaks has a story about how to mod your X-Box in 10 minutes, with only needing to add a wire. Cute idea.

Finally, I am looking at moving my ADSL to WestNet since they have fast speeds, and more included MBytes in their plans. Even bettery, they do not charge for data between WestNet users in the same state.