Michael Kratz

A while ago, I stumbled upon these awesome high resolution renders posted by a guy (Mojo) who used to draw and render the CGI models for Star Trek Voyager and more recently Battlestar Galactica, they make great desktop backgrounds. Read more

After flying Internationally with QANTAS into Asia in 2005 and being extremely disappointed with the quality of their cabin, the aircraft (an old B767) and available entertainment, last year in 2008 I decided to try Singapore Airlines. In January I flew with Singapore Airlines to the Philippines and Singapore. I was lucky enough to score a sector on the shiny new A380 (9V-SKA) from Sydney to Singapore.
 

Singapore A380 9V-SKA at Changi Terminal 3

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Are you in Sydney on Australia Day? If so, be outside! It’s highly likely you’ll get your photo taken for Google Maps!

Google Australia has organised to have an aircraft fly around part of Sydney during Australia day, taking aerial photographs of people enjoying the day.

You can find out more information, including, when the aircraft is likely to be in your area, on the information page on the Google website. Check it out here

In an attempt to make this WordPress template a little less ‘default’ (not that it isn’t good, I just wanted to make it ‘different’), I’ve decided to replace the default orange swirly glassy effect image with some photos of my own.

These rotate randomly using a PHP image rotator (click here if you want it). So you might see the same image twice, or more. There are about 30 images. Read more

In one hour, the space shuttle Atlantis is set to blast off on it’s 27th flight in to space (STS-115). The shuttle will be up there for 11 days. The primary function of the mission is to resume construction of the International Space Station, in particular, the crew of Atlantis will be adding additional solar arrays and truss structure to the station. Read more

About a week ago, I saw a wierd advert on a website for a “Cryo Kennel“. Thinking, thats wierd… lets see what thats all about, I clicked on it, much to my surprise, I ended up at http://www.scifi.com/eureka/.

Turns out it was a quirky advertisement for a new Science Fiction TV series called Eureka. Read more

Adam, one of my work colleagues, has some really nifty weather and climate related graphs on his website. The data is parsed from information on the Australian Bureau of Meterology website, and extends back for up to 2 years. Which makes it really handy for seeing changes in seasons, trends and averages of temperature, rainfall, etc.

Check out the graphs here: http://www.bugman.cx/weather/

Also, on the topic of the Bureau of Meterology, if you haven’t already discovered, they make available on their website a significant amount of climate and weather information, including Rain/Precipitation Radar, this is my favourite feature of the BoM site.