Today's Civil Engineering URL

One often heard of building collapses these days. Happens in China, New York, many other places.

In China, this one is a bit special. The building fell over as though it had been pushed, and fell in one piece.

The story adds a bit of context.

Today's Cartoon URL

Ever wanted to succinctly sum up the historical relationship between Christians and lesbians and gay men?

Something about the iPhone I just realised today

A friend sent me an email with the address of his office in it and an invitation to lunch. Normally I would have laboriously re-typed it into the iPhone calendar. It then occurred to me that if I opened Google Calendar, cut-and-pasted the address into that, added the name of my friend and the time of the appointment, it would sync into my iPhone without my having to type much of anything. I did a Patrick Stewart and said, "Make it so" and it did.

Now this is a "Doh!" moment for me, but I will now be doing a lot more of it. While I've gotten good at the iPhone's keyboard, not having to type anything in particular and do everything on my desktop is cool. As a relative oldster as far as this kind of stuff is concerned, I sometimes don't make the connections I should. Once I do, though, I just run with it.