Zenburn v2.13 is released!
Thanks to Zac Thompson and Christophe-Marie Duquesne, there is now:
Grab it from vim.sf.net or from the official Zenburn page.
Enjoy!
Another Sunday to play with big numbers.
Anyone who has been to London must have noticed the numerous cameras observing you, like some strange proto-Orwellian social experiment.
Why have they built such a system? The theory goes: to reduce crime, and create safety, etc. But practice tends to disagree.
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BBC reports on the self-taught hardware hacker William Kamkwamba, who recycles junk to build electricity-generating windmills in Malawi.
Meanwhile, he installed a solar-powered mechanical pump, donated by well-wishers, above a borehole, adding water storage tanks and bringing the first potable water source to the entire region around his village.
When he ran into bugs, he had to debug and refactor the original design a little:
He upgraded his original windmill to 48-volts and anchored it in concrete after its wooden base was chewed away by termites.
It’s ingenious stuff, check it out.
