As you know, I am a blog reader and a writer. I usually write about all sorts of things but this is really the first time I have used a blog to inspire the writing of this entry. Interestingly enough, it turned out to be the blog of a close friend of mine. Click here for his blog.

After reading the article pertaining to the subject matter, I couldn’t help but write about it in my own blog. It appears that the left over remnants of coffee contains oil and using a specific chemical process can be turned into a renewable energy source. The full article is located on the discovery channel website article.

The online community has done it again, I found out about the US Airways landing in the Hudson River before the News Media (specifically CNN) came out with a breaking news alert on their website. This photo was likely one of the first taken moments after the airliner had went done. More pictures will likely come out when citizens will get around to posting them from their respective portable capture devices….
I am sure there is an amateur video of the entire incident as well. This is just one of the images I have come across that was taken by Janis Krums who Twittered it from his iPhone who was on one of the first ferries to respond to the accident.

In this picture, you can see passengers on the raft and others just standing on the wing in frigid cold waters in the Hudson River.

The power of the Internet and Smartphones at its best.

However, more importantly, everyone got off the airline safely and without any major incidents so I send my praise to the Captain of the flight for landing this plane in a controllable fashion that allowed everyone to get out of plane alive and without injury.

I have been passively following the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2009 and one of the newest toys that has captured my attention is the little infrared-camera built by FLIR and its use in automotive applications. I looked into this some more and found the following video that describes the new FLIR system from LiveLeak.com:

FLIR has joined up with BMW to introduce this technology in some of their higher-end models, however, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this technology make it into every car in the not to distant future in the hopes of making night time driving safer for everyone. Now, if only they could transpose distant images onto the windshield without having you constantly monitor the extra screen would be amazing. I think that technology is a little further away.