When you turn on your television or radio, the signal you’re picking up is being broadcast on a specific wavelength, which changes depending on what device you’re using.

But what are these wavelengths? Which devices work in which wavelength? To answer these questions, GuruOnline commissioned the following infographic, entitled ‘The Broadcast Spectrum’.

As always let me know your thoughts in the comments below, and if you’re looking for infographic design be sure to give the team at Designbysoap.co.uk a shout!

Click the image below for the full version, and feel free to repost this infographic, just please link back to GuruOnline or the Blazing Minds website if you do. 

EDF ENERGY and EDF launches “Energy TaskForce”, a serious game for young engineers who are passionate about energy!

“Energy TaskForce” is a serious game that will be played out over a 3-week period this coming January. If you’re an engineer, a student or a young graduate, and you think you know the various disciplines in the energy sector, you can already register in teams of 4 at http://energytaskforce.edf.com and visit the game’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/edf.energytaskforce.

Discover the trailer for this interactive adventure game that gets right to the heart of the economic and industrial issues facing EDF and the energy sector. Devising and producing tomorrow’s energy, and consuming it more efficiently – these are the Group’s aims, and your objectives within the game! Teams will get the chance to compare their skills and explore and solve puzzles, and each week they will tackle challenges designed to reflect the industrial issues tackled by EDF and the studies of the players. The game will provide them with the opportunity to develop their analytical capabilities, to apply their theoretical knowledge and to get to know the EDF Group better.

The operation will be carried out on a grand scale across 6 European countries (France, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy and Belgium), the aim being to attract a wide range of skilled individuals with a game that is co-branded with the Group’s European subsidiaries: EDF Energy in the UK, Edison in Italy and EnBW in Germany.

The game will be played from 31 January to 19 February 2011. It’s well worth a shot: the winning team will enjoy a trip to Laos, including a visit to one of the largest dams in the world (Nam Theun).
So now’s the time to spread the word amongst your young engineer friends!

I pour myself another cup of coffee and start to get very excited as I add milk and sugar to the dark essence of purified Heaven. I recently quit alcohol, and coffee and cigarettes have proved to be a life-saver. There’s a problem though: I couldn’t sleep because I kept feeling things crawling all over me, so I hopped on the computer and made myself a huge pot of the finest blend acquired from the lovely people at my local café (one of about 10 in the one block).

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So now that things are clearing up with Twitter, do you still use Twitter as much as you did or are you slacking off a bit?

It’s took me a few days to get back on my “Twitter” feet, catching up with friends and recapturing twitters in SNODS, but was it a black hole for some users, yes Twitter is very addictive, but did people actually go cold turkey over not been able to tweet their in thoughts and mad moments, reading ExtremeJohns post “10 Reasons it Sucks when Twitter Goes Down” brought a smile to my face when Twitter went down and it’s things like this that was a breath of fresh air in a hectic world!

I for one really enjoy the escapism of Twitter and the option to release a thought at specific moment to my 1900+ followers is fun, in it’s own kind of way, yes I may have a slight aversion to missing it while it was down, but I wouldn’t exactly say that it was life threatening or that I couldn’t cope without it, but some people do have a problem that it wasn’t running 100% and they just couldn’t cope without it.

But do we really rely on sites like Twitter and technology that bit too much, think about it, what would you do without the internet, TV, mobile phones etc, could you go through a week or even a day without any technology whatsoever!

So the next time something like Twitter goes down, take my advice, chill! It will be back eventually