It was 100 years ago today the ill fated Titanic was launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast. At the time she was the largest passenger ship in the world and was commissioned by the White Star Line. I could go into more details here, but there are many websites out there that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Something us Brits do extremely well are the slightly strange sporting events, possibly because we are so bad at mainstream ones The story goes that the World Custard Pie Championships were inspired by that great pie thrower of the past, Charlie Chaplin, and organised by Councillor Mike FitzGerald to raise funds to build a village […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was having a bit of a chill out last night and had my iPod on shuffle, which can be a bit of a strange experience as my musical taste could be best described as eclectic so one minute might be chilling out to some Vivaldi only to then have my ears blasted out by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As it is coming up to the end of the month I decided to do my usual look at the visitor statistics, for a site like this I use awStats. Although it is pretty basic it does provide a reasonable snapshot of the traffic. Nice to see that unique visitors is up by around 32.5% […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people with the slightest interest in computer history will have heard of the Colossus computers, first used in 1944 to help decode the German Lorenz SZ42 enciphering machine at Bletchley. Fewer people have heard of the Tunny which ran alongside it. The Colossus was used to calculate the wheel settings that the SZ42 had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A little while ago I was in the mood for a new phone, the problem I found was that I could not find anything that really interested me. Sure, there is some amazing technology packed into the latest smart phones but I just wanted one for calls and texts. On the other hand there are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well, I turned my flat over looking for one of my old digital cameras and came up empty handed … But at least I sorted out a lot of junk So I decided it was time to get a new one. I used to be quite serious about my photography but not really so much […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Running on from a pub conversation I had last week about my top 10 films of all time I actually started to think about what would be my ultimate top 10 … And I failed miserably, so had to start thinking in terms of genres. So here I present my top 10 Sci-Fi movies : […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Was thinking of a nice quiet few pints in the pub and post a couple of entries in this blog, however I realised that it on this day back in 1950 that Lafayette Ronald Hubbard published the book ‘Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.’ For those that do not remember Dianetics then it might […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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