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Department S.
In the 1960s and early-1970s "ITC" [a company owned by Sir Lew Grade] funded a number of "Spy-fi" TV series. Best known of the bunch is ~The Prisoner~ but there were plenty of others.
The Saint, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Danger Man, The Baron, Gideon's Way, The Champions, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Stingray, Joe 90, Man ( Read more... ) -
Thought-for-the-day.
The prime directive for any "IT continuity" plan is not to get corporate/client-facing IT-services up again.
The prime-directive of IT continuity is preserving shareholder-value - which means having on standby someone who can appear on TV to present a cool, calm, collected, nothing-to-see-here image.
Never, NEVER - allow sweaty coffee-stained ( Read more... ) -
Steady Eddy.
A while back, I acquired an Eddystone 840A receiver at a rather good price. It had been "got at" internally by a previous owner, the power-supply choke being replaced by a monstrous stack of resistors and the valve rectifier had been replaced by a BY127 semiconductor diode ( Read more... ) -
London to Bath, 1963-style.
The A4 is the pre-motorway route from London to Bath. Here we have a really rather good 'described drive' of the path, back in 1963.
Even today it's possible to make distinctly-rapid progress along the A4 if you concentrate on the task in hand.
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The way to grow old.
Earlier today in Witley Scrotum high-street I spotted an elderly, grey-haired but distinctly elegant lady getting into a really rather well-travel-worn silver-blue Bristol 411We got to chat, and discuss classic cars. Seems she'd just returned from her late-summer 'European tour' in the company of - as she put it - her "current boyfriend" - who was ( Read more... ) -
Otter.
One of the things-I-do for historic reasons is participate in a rather amusing introduction-to-radio-frequency-direction-finding for recruits to part of the .gov.uk forces ( Read more... ) -
Orchestra.
I once fell into a pit containing a live Orchestra. I escaped only after slaying most of the brass-section with my trusty machete. -
AEA Winfrith - how the pipe was laid.
I've got historic associations with AEA Winfrith - one of the UK's nuclear-research facilities.
Here's a fascinating video of how they laid an outfall-pipe in the late-1950s. At one time my 'office' was about 30 feet from the head-end of the pipe.
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