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Today Q-music, a belgian radio station announced they’ll give away a prize that’s never been giving away before anywhere in the world.
And what for a prize it is, the winner wins a trip to Space!

You’ll have to be at least 18 years old and in good shape.
They say anybody can participate, but I think only people from Belgium can try and win the trip to space. Lucky me then
As from the September the 7th, we can join the game. Then they will select a few people, how I’m still not sure, but I think it’s going to be something like being the 100th person to send an SMS with a right answer or something like that. (They do other things like this also).

Is this for real?
Yes it is!!!

Who ever wins this, is going to space in a Suborbital spaceflight in 2010.

You will depart from a real Spaceport that’s currently being build less than an hour drive from Dubai (maybe you can see the Burj Dubai, the highest tower in the world)
The Ras Al-Khaimah Spaceport will be in close proximity to one of the world’s leading tourist destinations.

Ras Al-Khaimah is the most northern of the seven emirates that form the United Arab Emirates, which also includes Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, and Fujairah. It borders Oman on its Northern and Eastern limits. It covers 1,684 sq. km, has 64 km of pristine natural coastline, and beautiful mountains on the northern boarder. Ras Al-Khaimah has witnessed massive development in recent years and now boasts one of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the region, a world-leading ceramics industry, and a burgeoning tourist sector with world-class hotels and resorts. Ras Al-Khaimah has embarked on an ambitious development program including investments in infrastructure improvement, tourism, shopping, and efforts to attract industrial and commercial enterprises. Among the most important of these endeavors is the establishment of the Ras Al-Khaimah Free Trade Zone. The Ras Al-Khaimah International Airport is rapidly expanding, and offers excellent services and facilities for all types of flight operations.

A space shuttle brings you up to 100km above the earth, shuts down the rocket engine and you can enjoy being the 3th belgian (After Dirk Frimout and Frank De Winne) in space and the scenery for a couple of minutes.
This 100km above the earth is outside the earth’s atmosphere and known as the “astronauts altitude”. If you’ve been there you are officially an astronaut.

All of this will cost the radio-station $102,000 (including $4,000 cancellation insurance)

Well I’m certainly going to test my luck a few times to win this, wish me luck!

Today I was browsing in history on the Way back machine to look at some sites I used to surf in the early days I got on the net.
One of them was msn.com.

What I thought was an interesting find is that they had an internet tutorial on their page back then to inform us how the internet works

1. Introduction:

Remember, the Internet is not just about corporate information. Because it is very easy to publish on the web, many individuals have set up personal “home pages,” pages about themselves and their interests, pictures of themselves, and more. Some even have pointers to what they are wearing in the office that day or their pet.

2. Web Surfing Basics:

Surfing the web means following hyperlinks to different web pages. As you surf around the web, you may find pages you have read about or seen mentioned on television.
Have fun surfing the web to learn about subjects you are interested in and visiting new sites all over the world.

What a nice guy Bill is no?

“One Laptop per child” an article I’ve read today in a local newspaper here in Belgium.
The goal is to make a laptop for 100$.
Yup that’s right, only 100$, but don’t expect you’ll get a state of the art portable. No, the purpose of the portable is to help childeren around the world to broaden their
possibility’s, by getting access to libraries of knowledge.
At the moment they can’t produce it for 100$, but they’re very close, production costs are 123$.

The laptop is not a cost-reduced version of today’s laptop; they have fundamentally reconsidered personal computer architecture—hardware, software, and display. Unlike any laptop ever built, the laptop:

It creates its own mesh network out of the box. Each machine is a full-time wireless router. Children—as well as their teachers and families—in the remotest regions of the globe will be connected both to one another and to the Internet.
It features a 7.5-inch, 1200×900-pixel, TFT screen and self-refreshing display with higher resolution (200 DPI) than 95% of the laptops on the market today. Two display modes are available: a transmissive, full-color mode; and a reflective, high-resolution mode that is sunlight readable. Both of these modes consume very little power: the transmissive mode consumes one watt—about one seventh of the average LCD power consumption in a laptop; and the reflective mode consumes a miserly 0.2 watts.
It can selectively suspend operation of its CPU, which makes possible further remarkable power savings. The laptop nominally consumes less than two watts—less than one tenth of what a standard laptop consumes—so little that laptop can be recharged by human power. This is a critical advance for the half-billion children who have no access to electricity.

To enhance performance and reliability while containing costs, The laptop is not burdened by the bloat of excess code, the “feature-itis” that is responsible for much of the clumsiness, unreliability, and expense of many modern laptops. We intend for laptop to start up in an instant—faster than any commercial laptop now available—and move briskly through its operations.

The laptop is an open-source machine: free software gives children the opportunity to fully own the machine in every sense. While they don’t expect every child to become a programmer, they don’t want any ceiling imposed on those children who choose to modify their machines. They are using open document formats for much the same reason: transparency is empowering. The children—and their teachers—will have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, hardware, and content.

The generation-one machine’s core electronics begin with the 400Mhz AMD Geode processor. There are 128MB of dynamic RAM and 512MB of SLC NAND flash memory on board. The basic integrated operating system is a “skinny” Fedora distribution of Linux. The user interface is specially designed to support collaborative learning and teaching: every activity comes with a support network of teachers and children, so learning need not be an isolated, lonely endeavor.

More infromation you can find on their website http://laptop.org/en/children/

According to Forrester the iPhone has ended the cell phone as we now it today.
They published a document where they explain the end of the old mobile web.
Now more sites that are designed for readability or limited capabilities so people can read them on their cellphone.

Forrester also claims that company’s should take a look at the iPhone and it’s possibility’s.

Personally I think it’s an fancy phone as far as I can read reviews of it. I haven’t seen it in real because It’s not yet available in Europe.