Posted in Funny and weird stuff on Jun 8th, 2008
German waterpark Aqua Magis in Plettenberg is going to open a unique waterslide with a looping. It sounds pretty extreme but if you examine some of the pictures it looks pretty safe IMO, it’s far from a complete vertical loop. The slide is 12.4 meters high and has a topspeed of around 65km/h. Some guys [...]
Posted in DV Hardware on Jun 3rd, 2008
DV Hardware was on Slashdot and Engadget this weekend with an article about a new “supercomputer” for medical research from the University of Antwerp that uses four GeForce 9800GX2 graphics cards to do its magic. What makes this system to special is that this GPGPU powerhouse enabled these researchers to create their own low-cost supercomputer, [...]
Posted in Personal Ramblings on Jun 1st, 2008
Last week Carmen and I went to Disneyland Resort Paris for three days. Here’s a small report of our trip Day 1 – Sunday May 25, 2008 We left early in the morning to get on a TGV in Brussels and an hour or two later we arrived in Marne-la-Vallée. This is the first time [...]
