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Jerry Norbury

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Tesla Roadster keeps on rollin', goes 313 miles on single charge (Engadget)

Oct 31st 2009 4:37AM Living in Amsterdam, I'd be more worried about the ring-road around Antwerp and Brussels :-)
500km in Australia probably doesn't even have corners.

777 copies of Windows 7 for Seven Houses, Netherlands, says Microsoft seven times fast (Engadget)

Oct 16th 2009 2:05AM Ah - but which one? There are five in The Netherlands!

777 copies of Windows 7 for Seven Houses, Netherlands, says Microsoft seven times fast (Engadget)

Oct 16th 2009 2:02AM It might sound like Microsoft had a hard time dreaming this one up, however, I guess it was quite common at one point to go round counting the number of houses in the village when you decided on a name. I'd feel pretty left out if I lived in one of the others:

One -
Een, Noordenveld Drenthe

Three -
Drie, Ermelo Gelderland

Four -
Vierhuizen De Marne Groningen
Vierhuizen Wûnseradiel Fryslân

Five:
Vijfhuizen Haarlemmermeer Noord-Holland
Vijfhuizen Oosterhout Noord-Brabant

Seven -
Zevenhuizen Bunschoten Utrecht
Zevenhuizen Heeze-Leende Noord-Brabant
Zevenhuizen Leek Groningen
Zevenhuizen Texel Noord-Holland
Zevenhuizen Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle Zuid-Holland

Eight -
Acht , Eindhoven Noord-Brabant

Ten- literally Ten Commandments...
Tiengeboden, Ubbergen Gelderland

Jerry Norbury
Amsterdam

Samsung's solar Blue Earth launching in Sweden this month, elsewhere soon (Engadget)

Oct 14th 2009 1:51AM So they've decided to release it, in Sweden, in November.

Have you ever been to Sweden in winter? There's barely ANY sun!

DIY semi-functional keyboard pants destined for the geek catwalk (Engadget)

May 12th 2009 2:59AM In the pocket...

DIY semi-functional keyboard pants destined for the geek catwalk (Engadget)

May 12th 2009 2:58AM Great - when you spill a cup of hot coffe on your keyboard you get to sue McDonald's...

Direct download links for Windows 7 beta iso surface! (Download Squad)

Jan 9th 2009 5:02PM Link worked instantly for me AND I'm receiving at (my) full bandwidth (5Mbps)...

CTL releasing Atom-powered 2go nettop for $149 (Engadget)

Aug 31st 2008 4:32PM Since when was 50% "marginal"?

€100 pc - now that sounds like something my retired mother would consider buying...

Nokia launches the N79 and N85 (Engadget)

Aug 26th 2008 4:22PM Quite right, that's just nonsense. Looks to me like the N79 is the slider version of the N78.

Etch A Sketch clock automatically draws, redraws time (Engadget)

Mar 9th 2008 4:53AM All it misses is a Stylophone bot add-on for playing Big Ben chimes on the hour.