The Fergy 8 guys are preparing to leave Dalhousie today for the Simpson Desert trek today. They expect to take about a week to cross the desert, mostly taking the ‘French Line’, a trail surveyed in the 1960’s by a french mining company. The journey to Birdsville is about 500km… This means that they are intending to do about 75km/day on the backs of tractors…

In The Register this morning comes news of a couple of bumbling burglers in the UK… One of them used his work car to commit roberies, unaware that his movements were being tracked with GPS Tracking System in the car. This, the police were able to tie a total of ten breakin’s when they were fially caught.

Ontrack Data Recovery have listed their 10 best data recovery requests on a ZD-Net WWW site. The one about a laptop being run over by a plane is good, but the one that I like is “Construction Calamity
During the construction of a large office building, a steel beam fell on a laptop computer containing the building plans, crushing the laptop.

Now, on CNN comes news that Japan’s space agency plans to launch an arrow-shaped airplane at twice the speed of sound high over the Australian outback, probably next month. It is a crucial test of the country’s push to develop a supersonic successor to the retired Concorde.

The test follows a three-year hiatus since the first experimental flight of the unmanned aircraft, dubbed the next-generation supersonic transport, prematurely separated from its booster rocket and crashed into the desert.

Music:

I was watching UKTV, and they had a piece of music on one of the shows. I found out it was Una Paloma Blanca… Good to know but I will not be buying the CD…