Toms View of the World

Give a geek a challenge, like “Bake a birthday cake for Engadget” and see what a geek can do with…

• Cake mix
• Baking Trays
• Oven
• CAD Software
• 45w Computer Guided Laser Cutter
• Fresh Cream
• Food Colouring

Huh, CAD Software and a Laser?

See the pictures here

A bit of overly sensational reporting from the BBC - a woman who happened to be using SatNav, uses the incorrect procedure for negotiating an unmanned level crossing (see highway code rules 217 and 269), and has her car crushed by a train.

Fortunately, she wasn’t in it.

The SatNav had nothing to do with it - if she’d used the crossing in the correct manner, she’d have been fine.

Another argument for refresher driving courses and tests being compulsory, especially for less common situations (there can’t be that many user-operated level crossings left)…