Wednesday 31 March 2010

Thing #44: Teach your grandparents something new

Teaching my grandmother to use a mobile phone may be difficult but is not difficult enough. So I thought to scale this up and teach 50 elderly people (we can debate all day who's old and who isn't, so lets not go there) how to use the Internet and various related applications, such as VOIP, social networking etc. To achieve this I had to organise a full day training event and get a few volunteers to help out. The session has not taken place yet, but the sheer organisation effort to make it happen is enough to claim this Thing done!

Monday 29 March 2010

Thing #46: Go as fast as you can (RE-done!)

I was travelling with a 747-400 the other day and it reported a ground speed of... 1002km/h. So I officially broke the 1000km/h milestone. Then again, perhaps that was not that great after all. A bit of wind can make wonders. Still the 747-400 took me all the way to Taipei where I got a lift by (one of) the fastest lift in the world in Taipei 101! It travelled 101 floors in 45 seconds. Not bad eh!?