So thats’ sounds hair-rasing!
Laptop Losses Total 12,000 Per Week at US Airports
But really you can say anything with statistics.
Break-it-down.
= 1,714 a day
But there are 517 airports in the US, of which 382 are primary. Lets just take the airports classified as Hubs = 139 see http://www.aci-na.org/index/airportsyou_faq#q-how-many-airports
1714/139 = On average that’s only 12 laptops a day per major airport.
or about one every hour…
Now take a major hub airport like Chicago, which has 2663 aircraft movements a day, of which 64% are commercial = 1704 flights a day! Passenger totals 76,248,911 pa equate to 197,942 people a day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O’Hare_International_Airport
Well, that statistic sounds pretty bland now. At a major commercial airport in any one hour:
* 16,495 passenger leave/arrive
* 142 commercial flight are processed
and, just one laptop gets lost!
Damn lies and statistics 
We are facing a new paradigm for browser testing.
The rough figures now are around 75% for standards based (50% IE7 + 25 % FF/Safari) and 25% IE6.
At what point do we stop testing IE6 in standard development. Its a hard question. Below 15% is pprobably our threashold.
Market share for browsers, operating systems and search engines
This page tries to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the way fonts are handled by Mac OS X 10.5.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard font management | Prepressure
Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it’s digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.
Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor | paintalicious
Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi’s living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck’s one of the leading contemporary artists of today.
The Paper Version of the Web at Deeplinking
People have been sketching user interfaces since the birth of the web (possibly even before) but the sketches usually stay locked away in old notebooks and discarded bar napkins in Austin, Texas. Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, and with people like Jakob Nielsen and Bill Buxton spreading the gospel of faster, cheaper paper prototypes, “next year’s Twitter” may already exist on paper.
For years we’ve been telling people to keep their camcorders away from sand and water - only to find that Panasonic’s SDR-SW20 is happy lying on a windy beach or swimming with the fish. Has the world gone mad?
SimplyDV Review: Panasonic SDR-SW20 SDHC Camcorder
Key factors on choosing a CamCorder
For blogging and social media
- Low light performance
- Sound quality and mic-in external mic and headphone jack **
- Easy tripod setup and remote activation - for self recording
- Runs directly off mains
For kids and sport
- Optical image stabilisation (not just digital)
- External battery charging
- Reasonable zoom
- Simplicity and tactile control (button placement)
For experimentation
- Manual focus
- Easy access to exposure control
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Beginers-Camcorder-Buying-Guide.htm
One of the best reviews is for the classic from 2004 Panasonic GS400
The Panasonic PV-GS400 is the best camcorder value I’ve ever reviewed. Whoever designed this camcorder, and any engineers who worked on it, deserve a raise. (That’s to you, Matsushita). Of course, there are camcorders from pro divisions that beat the PV-GS400; however, they certainly don’t offer anything close to the value that the PV-GS400 does.
This camera is raved about in many forums, as its replacement GS500 moved toward a more consumer mode by dropping manual focus ring.
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Panasonic-PV-GS400-Camcorder-Review.htm
http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=75299
Choices - picks for SD Camcorders June 2008
Panasonic SDR-H280
www.panasonic.com.au SD HDD 30 GB / memory card 60 63 59 56 42 57 100 143 • 1209
Sony DCR-SR220
www.sony.com.au SD HDD 60 GB / memory card 59 59 61 47 55 48 100 147 • 1399
Panasonic NV-GS330
www.panasonic.com.au SD Mini-DV 53 56 56 47 43 62 37 77 • 989
CHOICE - Test: Digital camcorders