Rob Pearson

A poll from last October found:

Only 57% of Americans think there is evidence of warming (down from 71% last year)

Just 36% think it’s because of human activity (down from 47%)

(Source : Time magazine, March 22)

Got to love Gmail.

I just went to send an email that included an attachment, but (not for the first time), I forgot to actually attach anything.

Gmail very nicely suggested….

At least its consistent!

Interesting approach to handling double tapping buttons on iPhone:

Dr Touch: Double Tapping on Buttons

With the starting of a new decade, I just realised that all those born in the 1960s (including myself) have now turned 40.

In Holland, two thirds of the population lives below sea level. Some neighborhoods around Rotterdam are as much as 7m below sea level.

No wonder two Netherlands based companies control 40% of the global dredging business.

More interesting snippets from Time magazine.

Forest destruction accounts for 15% of global emissions by human activity, far outranking the total from vehicles and aircraft combined.

Forests are disappearing so fast in Indonesia that, incredibly, this developing country ranks third in emissions behind industrial giants China and the U.S.

To change the VM memory settings from the default value of 256 MB, you should modify Info.plist found in:

/Applications/IntelliJ IDEA 8.1.4.app/Contents/Info.plist

You have to change the VMOptions at the end of the file:

<key>VMOptions</key>
<string>-Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xbootclasspath/a:../lib/boot.jar -ea</string>

I bought my son some Lego the other day. Accompanying the box came a brochure advertising other Lego sets but also including some fascinating facts.

… on average, every person owns 62 Lego bricks

… 36,000 Lego elements are produced every minute

I find this next one a bit hard to believe. World people poplulation is just under 7 billion.

… 4 billion Lego minifigures inhabit the world

and my favourite

… Lego produces more then 306 million tyres per year, which makes it the largest tyre manufacturer in the world

Couple nice quotes from the inside of a chocolate wrapper:

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade

A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight