Passionate about software, technology and travel. Just completed a five+ year 30K nM sailing trip (http://ff.im/4gfo2): and now I need to get a real job!
"Although they only started three days ago, Groupama has already broken the record for the longest distance covered by a sailboat in 24 hours.. 708 miles. That's an average of 29.5 mPH (we averaged around 6)."
- Chris Myles
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That would be very nice..RT @raffg @posterous Hopefully we'll soon see default autoposting for different sites!
I was surprised at the amount of data they collect, especially WRT Web History (which I now disabled). What will they collect when they own the browser? Check your data at http://www.google.com/dashboa....
- Chris Myles
@wwiktorr Yeah it broke up my long HTML lines and inserted extra <br> which screwed up <ul><li> and <div><span> spacing. ?Compose mode?
How much $$ do they spend on these America's Cup boats? BMW/Oracle just broke their mast valued at approximately $10 Million (for JUST the mast). When does the insanity/ego trip end? Can you imagine what the rest of the world could do with that kind of $?
- Chris Myles
As long as Ellison and his ego are involved I don't think the insanity will stop. He's helped to make the America's Cup more of a joke than F1.
- Kenton
Although I do love what Bertarelli has done for the cup and sailing. It used to be so closed off and Alinghi changed all that. I remember the Alinghi Camp during the NZ Americas cup, they had an open club house with interactive games to get the spectator involved. Then after they won, they added match racing with lots of boats and world wide pre-races to the AC program.. I think they've...
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- Chris Myles
@siobhanquinn we've emailed before. It basically split my long lines and added extra <br /> all over! It WON'T happen again I reverted back.
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- Chris Myles
RT I Agree.. @kevtufc: @posterous Is it possible to get an rss feed of a particular tag on your posterous? This would be so very useful...