The Project codenamed Phoenix, was created by eight members of Microsoft’s Windows team. It was one of the human-powered flying devices entered in the Red Bull Flugtag event in Long Beach, California. The aim of the Red Bull Flugtag is to build a human powered flying machine and see how far you can launch yourself off a pier.
The glider was colored out in the traditional Windows Colors of Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. The glider looked rather impressive.
Microsoft pumped up the crowed with an interesting mix of windows sounds mixed with Sandstorm (Please Microsoft Release the track!), and a little dance, before pushing the glider down the launching ramp.
However what happened next can only be all to common of the traditional days of Windows. After just 15 seconds of up-time the system ultimately crashed. The end result is ultimately hilarious and worth a watch. However looking at the video the glider appears to be perfectly sound, so maybe the load balance was slightly off. I do hope Microsoft release Phoenix 2.0 now that Phoenix 1.0 is out of Beta testing.
Marcel the Shell With Shoes on is a stop motion video by Dean Fleischer-Camp.
His name is Marcel and he is a talking seashell with shoes. He is small and can hardly lift anything. The video is very adorable. Follow him on his short tour of his house and life.
“One time I nibbled on a piece of cheese and my cholesterol went up to 900″
At work we have BBC News playing all day. However something awesome happened just as the weather man was starting his news report. I presume there was some banter going on between him and the producer but let’s just say the cameras chose the wrong time to go live!
The cameras swapped to live TV just as the weather man was “Giving The Finger” to someone in the studio. Upon realising this was live the weatherman was well rather shocked and the cameras swapped back to the news room!
Best of all someone managed to record it as well!
A website called TheChive is reporting that a woman called Jenny (Not Confirmed) had quit her job yesterday morning in a rather amusing way. She quit her job using a dry wipe board and photos. Kudos to her!
She basically wrote out a series of messages and kind of posed for them in amusing ways to convey the message. She then emailed them to everyone in her office. She was her boss PA, and from looking at the images the office morale was down and she got one up on her boss by relieving his online surfing habits through the computer monitoring software.
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I really DO suggest you view all the images, it’s so hilarious!!! Also somehow I don’t see her waiting to long to get a new job either as well.
A few weeks ago I bought a Ford Escort Cosmopolitan 1988 MK4, a rare limited edition car.I bought it off my mate Peter who gave the car a once over and said it’s in good condition, no rust or rot on any of the main parts of the car. He even fitted a brand new exhaust as well!
The Escort is in rather good condition considering it’s age. There is only a slight bit of rust on the rear arches. This is considering old Fords suffered from rear arch rust, the worst is on the right rear wing which may need grinding out and filling. But the rest will just need sanding, and proofing then it will be good as new! There is slight surface rust on the front arches but only slight. The main area of concern for me is the back right as that’s the worst on the car. Overall rear arch rust needs sorting before Winter sets in otherwise the car won’t be looking good after winter if I don’t sort it!!
On Saturday 1st August Ben kindly helped me track down an electrical issue with my break lights and reverse lights. Whenever i signal left and break the signal and break lights would flash! Ben had figured out that maybe one of the electrical connectors had corroded so he cleaned it up with some WD40 and a screwdriver as it looked bad. But at the same time we found out the reason my reverse lights where not working, the bulbs had blown! What are the odds of two reverse lights going!! But still the signal glitch remained! We later concluded it was a mix of corrosion and somehow the two dead bulbs where messing up the circuit. As once removed it worked!
Yesterday me and my good mates Ben & Dan gave my car some good loving! It started with Ben hosing down the car and washing it from top down with warm soapy water. Then when he got to the arches OMG it was pure dirt! Before he started my arches where black, now apparently behind that dirt is a nice white-painted arches! He said a few more washes under there and it will slowly come back!
Once Ben had car was fully washed, I helped him Chamois leather it down to dry it. Once dried Ben showed me and Dan how to light T-Cut a car. The stuff we used was a much weaker than T-Cut. But it was still good enough to remove light scratches and paint blemishes. Me and Dan applied the solution and rubbed it in while Ben polished it off. It’s amazing what a light solution of T-Cut stuff can do to a car! It really made it shine and removed a fair amount of dirt and grime! The best part was when Ben polished the front Ford badge! We then washed down the car with a quick light warm water sponge wash, and dried it with Chamois. This removed any excess grime and T-Cut residue.
The car then got a polish with some really rather amazing solution that smelled like coconut, and it helped make the car shine and really brought out the White color of the car. The car then got a light wet waxing to help protect and lock in everything done to it! I’m so looking forward to see water beading on my car!!!
The car then got some rather special treatment. Ben went around applying some special silicon-based spray to all the seals on the car. Meanwhile me and Dan where re-blacking the front and rear bumpers because they had faded real bad.
After around 6-7 hours of work the car looked amazing and the floor around the car was just full of sediment and looked like a bog! I am very great-full for the guys hard work and them giving up a day to help me on my car!
