Comet

Monday the 4th of jan 2007

Comet still visible in our skys.
Another site with pictures from all over the world.
http://spaceweather.com:80/comets/gallery_mcnaught.php


more on the comet. Did'nt have to wander across the road last night , Could see it clearly from our front yard. Hardly a cloud anywhere

Found this nz site with pictures

http://www.doggitt.com/comets.htm



Wandered over the road last night to get a better view of the mcnaught Comet , Bit cloudy but still able to see it quite clearly as the clouds moved off.
This comet is supposed to be one of the the most visible comets for about 40 years . Looking in a southwest direction in the sky.




More info here
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070112_ns_comet_mcnaught.html
Nz
http://www.rasnz.org.nz/
Nz Newspaper
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/3929492a11.html
Image Gallery
http://spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_mcnaught_page9.htm
More images here
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10419869
19.01.07

Hydrabad

New section added to Hometown.

This is the ship Hydrabad that was wrecked of Waitarere Beach. Was down at that beach today could'nt find it any where. Must be covered in sand again. I remember going to the beach at waitarere when younger and climbing all over it. It was like the wreckage picture then.
this was in the early 60's.

The Hydrabad

http://digital.natlib.govt.nz/get/22461?profile=access
was Built in 1865 at Port Glasgow, Scotland, and was owned by Stephens and Sons, London
Captain Holmwood
The Hydrabad was a square-rigged ship with three masts.
Her official number was 30642 of 1865.'
Built of Lowmoor iron,
Lenght 229.5 feet [69.9 metres] long,
Beam 37.2 feet [11.2 metres]
Depth was 23.2 feet [7 metres]
1350 tons register
She had 2 holds.

Her figurehead was Hindu warrior, with a colourful turban, sash and flowing white robe, and a black bushy beard. His left hand was gripping a sword. This ended up at foxton beach in someones garden but unfortunatley its gone now
A picture of this can be seen here http://horowhenuahistory.library.org.nz/exhibit1/e10200b.htm

A little history on what happened to the ship.

On 24 June 1878 on route to Adelaide, Australia from Lyttelton, NZ.
the ship struck a severe storm, After battling the storm she ended up of the horowhenua coast and could'nt get back out to sea. The captain drove the vessel onto the beach at Waitarere.There was no loss of life
There were two attempts, in November 1878 and 7 Jan 1879 to refloat the ship; these did'nt succed
The vessel was abandoned following fire that was so fierce that the hull planks were buckled. She was insured for £15,000 and her cargo for £24,500.

Picture of the Wreckage
http://digital.natlib.govt.nz/get/11916?profile=access

Successive storms have left the wreck well above high water mark. The wreck is now covered with sand, and is occasionally uncovered and recovered through storm and wind action.
There has been talk of erecting a memorial to the ship ,but unsure if any thing has been done??

Sport

Added a Sport Section today

All Blacks
Super14
Hurricanes
Hockey

Added to Today

Added to Today

Transport

This is one cool Wagon.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2519555829449987448

NZ Flag Jpeg added underneath the clock

Govt

Site explaining the NZ Flag
http://www.mch.govt.nz/nzflag/

Also added a
Cuzzie section under Govt for any pics etc of the farno
The 1st entry is uncle Thomas down load the gif file to your computer and open it.
looks a bit dodgy this Joker

Plus added a couple of pics of interest to the farno

Scroll down Links on the left side

Cell Phones

Added new Section "Cell Phones.

Pix2Fone is a free service that lets you make custom mobile phone wallpapers, backgrounds and logos in a snap. You can use it online or download as extension for MS Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. The browser extension adds "Save Picture to Mobile Phone" and "Upload File to Mobile Phone" options right to your browser.

Bored with trashy pics that come pre-installed with your new phone? Not ready to cough up up to $5.00 for mobile phone wallpapers elsewhere? Want to use your friends' photos as picture caller IDs, but don't have expensive PC-to-phone cables and adapters? Pix2Fone to the rescue: Save any photo from internet or computer to your mobile phone.
Check the compatibility list to see if your phone is supported
http://www.pix2fone.com/

Manuals and Unlock codes Comprehensive site .
http://www.gsm-technology.com/index.php
Repairing Cellphones
http://repair4mobilephone.org/cell_phone.html
Nokia phones free, online calculator for figureing out your unlock codes. Check the instructions at http://nokiafree.org/forums/t64045/s.html.
Then use the calculator at http://unlock.nokiafree.org/ for finding the code.
Unlock Codes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=240784.
List of manuals Chargers etc
http://www.mobilephonecrazy.com/type/Alcatel-Manuals.htm
http://www.mobilephonecrazy.com/make/Chargers.htm

BitPim
is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on many CDMA phones from LG, Samsung, Sanyo and other manufacturers. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones. The matrix of supported phones and features is in the online help http://www.bitpim.org/help/

Have a few more add ons for this section when I find them.

Guest Book

Added a Guest Book this morning. Scroll down to bottom of the page.

Looking for one without the flashing Banner.

Feel free to add a comment .

Military and Security

Added a new section today. Plus added to Transport and Interesting & Hunting

Military and Security


An introduction to the Metal Storm electronic weapons system.The new generation of weapons.
Quite a big video on it here.
Metal Storm Machinegun Weapons Rapid Fire
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/239653/metal_storm_weapon_system/

The Gun that fires around corners.
military video showing an innovative Israeli military system in developement called the Cornershot which can reach around corners which will allow for some great advantages in combat situations for the special forces.
http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/corner.aspx

SmokeCloak
the Theory is if can't see it you can't Steal It.
The products are extremely powerful artificial fog generators sold under the Smokecloak brand and constructed to work seamlessly together with existing alarm installations
http://www.smokecloak.com/home/?lang=en

Cell Phone Guns
Believe it or not.
Video
http://cellular.co.za/phones/gunphone/gun-phone.htm

Knife Gun
Why bring a knife to a Gun Fight
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-22-caliber-knife-gun


Added to Interesting

The Most Incredible Knife
Dennis Pireta, Wenger’s marketing director put it succinctly when he noted, “This is not exactly going to win any awards for lightest, smallest or most efficient tools…” The knife is a brute, weighing 2 pounds, 11 ounces and measuring 8.75 inches. But don’t worry, it has a key ring so you can carry it on a belt loop.
Wenger set the price at $1,200. Each knife must be ordered individually through the company.

If you’re interested in being the coolest Boy Scout on the block, call Wenger at 800-431-2996 to order your own Giant Knife, Version 1.0.

Or For you Computer Geeks
http://www.swissarmy.com/MultiTools/Product.htm?category=swissmemory&product=53984
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Added to Transport

VW Transformer

Heaps of Transformer videos

Plus here are a couple more cool ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STQ3nhXuuEM&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYKznMW5Iog&mode=related&search=


Hunting
hushPower
FULLY MODERATED SHOTGUNS As quiet as a air rifle
http://www.bigginhill.co.uk/hush.htm

Extreme Shotgun shooting.
Man this Guy is good. Practice makes perfect
http://gvhighlights.blogspot.com/2006/08/shotgun-test.html

Firefox Addons

Been playing with a few addons for Firefox this week.

IE View
This allows you to right click a link or url and it will open in a new window in IE
Can add a button to toolbar by right clicking the menu bar and /Customize then dragging Ie view button on to toolbar.
download and more info from http://ieview.mozdev.org/

New Tab Button on Tab Bar
this quite handy to make your own buttons for the toolbars more info here.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1456/
Custom Buttons
http://xsms.nm.ru/custombuttons/en/

TradeMe Microsummary

New TradeMe microsummary generator for firefox2
This is for if you want to keep a eye on a particular Trademe Auction. Just Bookmark the page you want to watch and firefox will watch the bids for you.
All you have to do is click on the bookmark and it tells you .
More info here http://daniel.expdev.net/category/computers/my-software/

Also had a look at Gspace this turns your Gmail account in to free online storage.
Uploaded a word Document into it . Got the same document in a email about a hour later??
Must have a look at this more closlely could be handy.
http://www.getgspace.com/index.html
VideoDownloader
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
Are you tired of copy&paste URLs to download a video? Now it's even easier !
VideoDownloader Firefox Extension add a small icon on the status bar at the bottom of your firefox window, and a toolbar button.
Just click that and download the video you are watching !

Heaps more Addons here
http://forum.mozilla-russia.org/viewforum.php?id=2&p=1


Plus tried a couple of tweaks for speeding up Firefox, certainly do the trick.
Supposed to be for broadband

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it recieves.

If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
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More tweaks here

About:config entries
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries
How To Modify Hidden Preferences Using about:config
http://www.mozillazine.org/misc/about:config/
The AboutConfig extension implements for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://aboutconfig.mozdev.org/