A mate at work just showed me this video which is too good not to pass on.
Basically it is a small doll named Keepon, designed by a Japanese researcher studying human-computer interaction. But in the video they have it dancing to the song “I Turn My Camera On” by the band Spoon.
This story was forwarded to me today and shows that people should leave things they don’t know about or don’t understand alone.
Give me a gun, and a bottle of Tequila…
I check my work email from home before I make my morning commute, so I can see what sort of maelstrom I’m about to walk into…If you can guess by the subject of the post, this one is a doozy.From: $user who for whatever reason came in on Monday when no one else was in the building.
To: IT Dept.
Re: A/C constantly running.Hi Guys,I came in today (Monday) to finish up a project I was working on before our big meeting with a potential client tomorrow, and I noticed that there were three or four large air conditioners running the entire time I was here. Since it’s a three day weekend, no one is around, why do we need to have the A/C running 24/7? With all the power that all those big computers in that room use, I doubt it is really eco-friendly to run those big units at the same time. And all computers have cooling fans anyway, so why put the A/C for the building in that room? I got a keycard from $facilitiesmanager’s desk and shut off the A/C units. I’m sure you guys can deal with it being warm for an hour or two when you come in tomorrow morning. In the future, let’s try to be a little more conscientious of our energy usage. Thanks.
RESULT:
Fatalities: Exchange Server, Domain Controllers, a few Sun boxes that I’m not sure of the usage.
Near-Fatalities: Phone Switch, Apps Servers.Temperature of server room 7AM Tuesday Morning: 90 Degrees Fahrenheit.
Status of Employee who sent the above e-mail: Terminated.
We had a similar thing happen at work not too long ago when the air-conditioning systems in the server room failed. Luckily we caught it before any permanent damage was done.
The original post can be found here.
Here’s something interesting for all the geeks out there.
PIPE Networks are in the process of building a new data centre here in Brisbane and the plan is to have it finished within 60 days from start to finish. The blog is a daily update of their progress.
I just saw a post on Caradvice that I just had to pass on.
This has to be one of the coolest looking cars I have seen in a while. I have always thought the new VW Golfs look pretty sexy, but the aggressive body kit on this concept is simply awesome. The performance isn’t too bad either. With two, mid mounted, V6 engines, it puts out slightly more power than a Lamborghini Murcielago.
If VW would have that body kit as an option on a GTI or R32, I would buy one in an instant.