I’ve experienced the last moments of life of two people so far in my short and sheltered life ( Read more... )

There are only two Lancaster bombers still flying today from the thousands that were made, one is based in the UK, the other in Canada, For this past couple of months though the Canadian one has been on a UK tour with it’s counterpart, travelling extensively round the country for airshows and even joined the last flying Avro Vulcan. I’d seen the ( Read more... )

It’s often described as a blight on the internet, rightly so. The age old “just delete it” bleat of the spammer has a hollow ring for those of us that have to mop it up when thigs go wrong. Along with the dayjob, I help a few others I know look after their systems, one place has taken up some time this evening. It won’t be a surprise that this has ( Read more... )

It turns out someone in the UK has been hauled through the courts for distributing a dodgy copy of Fast And Furious 6. I’d have thought there wasn’t much of a market for watching a shakycam copy with poor sound, filmed from the back of a cinema, but there you go. In a similar way I’m baffled why why people will grab a poor sounding MP3 from a ( Read more... )

Caught an article on Gerry Anderson’s funeral earlier. Sad day. Like many others I’ve laughed to the point of it being painful, sometimes when there wasn’t an awful lot to laugh about. Stephen Nolan described him as “the best, finest, broadcaster that BBC Northern Ireland will ever have in it’s lifetime”, I would be surprised if he’s wrong.

My dad was a big man, 6’4″ tall. He spent many years teaching people to drive in a small car, so when he retired he was determined to get “a real car” After a bit of looking round he found a white Avensis at a local dealer and was hooked. Over the next few years it must have covered most of Ireland any number of times, any excuse had mum and dad ( Read more... )

It’s been a busy few days, so I’m catching up on things. It turns out that the 5th August was 22 years since Jeff Porcaro left this world. He was only 38 ( Read more... )

So another trip to San Francisco ended the crappy year that 2011 was, with it ended a lot of the past. A tip of the hat to what is to come perhaps. Wish I knew ( Read more... )

I can't do much else without mentioning Thursday night's flight back from SFO ( Read more... )

I knew it had been a while since my last posting, but I hadn't realised it was so long ( Read more... )