The final frontier

Today's theme is Space. The European Space Agency has started accepting applications for wannabe astronauts. To apply you need to have a science related degree, preferrably be aged 27 to 37 and also have passed the kind of medical private pilots need (which costs about £150). Why not get out of the rat race and into the space race? Flights won't start until around 2015 though.

If you really want to go into space but don't get selected you could still become a space tourist. Tickets start at around £100K - I'd be annoyed if I didn't get a window seat. Here's more info about the industry in a TED talk by Burt Rutan.
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Tags: space, exploration, TED talks, astronaut

Shorter than TinyURL

URL shorteners create short links that forward onto web addresses that are long and hard to remember. Omani.ac is the shortest URL shortener I've come across. Bookmark it and use it when you're emailing a long web address to a friend or posting a link on a site.

There's also an API that programmers might find useful. Twitter, for example, automatically substitutes links that are thirty or more characters long. Perhaps you'll be able to find a use for it!

Win a Nintendo Wii Fit

They've been pretty elusive, but there's a competition that's free to enter at PriceCutReview.com with the prize being a Nintendo Wii Fit. Open to UK residents only. Closes at noon on 1st July 2008. If you can't wait that long then there's also an in-stock notification service here.

See also: Nintendo, Wii Fit, competition

Pagerank update April 2008

Google have just done a pagerank update. If you have the Google toolbar installed you should see that Nimisis.com is back to PR4. Same for PriceCutReview.com and Sport.omani.ac. About time too!

Tags: pagerank, Google, webmaster, seo

Another Mashup of the Day!

Got awarded a second Mashup of the Day by ProgrammableWeb.com, this time for Twitter Watch. We would like to thank...

Related: Twitter, mashup

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Nintendo Wii Fit

It's the UK release date for the Nintendo Wii Fit tomorrow. There's now no excuse not to get a bit healthier and do some exercise! Just in case stock runs out like the Wii console did, there's a Wii Fit stock finder to help get hold of one.

Twitter watch

Finally got the chance to try out Twitter recently and I can see why some people find it addictive! Useful too... a story made the news last week about someone managing to alert his friends and family after getting wrongfully arrested.

Anyway, I like sites that have an api for users to make their own mashups so I've made Twitter Watch. It came up with some interesting stuff - like there being a fairly big earthquake in Taiwan today... Oh, and feel free to add me to your Twitter list.

Tags: Twitter, mashup

Greek and double dutch

It's all greek to me, but greek and dutch versions of this multilingual blog can now be found via the links at the top of the page.

From Seinfeld - The Butter Shave
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Related: language, greek, dutch

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