Mark Willis

Archive for January, 2009

HMS Daring’s (D32) on it’s way home, for the first time.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

So, the first of six new Type 45 Destroyers, HMS Daring, has completed it's sea trials (stage 1) and so has been handed over to the Royal Navy (Dec 2008). Three more ships are currently undergoing stage 1 sea trials, with two more in production. One of the first ...

Video of 6′2″ Irish man being born.

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Just had to share this with the hundreds of spammers who keep trying to post links to medical supplies...

The Google Carbon Cycle

Monday, January 12th, 2009

"A google search produces 7g of carbon dioxide" Two search requests on the internet website Google produce as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle, according to a Harvard University academic. US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has conducted research into the environmental impact of "googling". A recent study estimated the global IT sector ...