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Leuchars Redux
For the last decade or so, I’ve gone to RAF Leuchars Airshow with my dad, also with my late Uncle Hugh in earlier years, and with my mate Jim in later years. This year, however, I had been infected with the plague, and I’d misdiagnosed it earlier in the week as a late-summer hay fever…
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Innocent Underground Picnics
The Grauniad: [S]ince 1955, for security reasons, it has been an offence to “penetrate into or circulate within” the rest of [Les Catacombes] There exist, however, several secretive bands of so-called cataphiles, who gain access to the tunnels mainly after dark, through drains and ventilation shafts, and hold what in the popular imagination have become…
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Why Not Switch Off Your TV and Go Outside and Do Something Less Boring Instead?
BBC News is carrying a story about how, quote, “US gamers are switching off the TV and are turning to gaming on their consoles and mobiles“, unquote. I’d love to see how US gamers are playing their consoles with the TV switched off …
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El Festival!
If you’re in Edinburgh right now, you should tune your radio to 106.9 FM to listen to Festival FM, featuring such luminaries as the mighty John Handelaar! If you’re not in Edinburgh, or can’t pick it up (the reception down in Leith is a bit gash), fire up a web browser and listen online with…
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Godspeed, Maestro
Anyone who knows me will eventually discover my passion for movie scores and soundtracks. When I was younger, I would listen to the greats — John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Michael Kamen, Ennio Morricone and so on. As time has moved on, I’ve discovered more depth to those composers I loved in my youth,…
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Full of Sound and Fury
Macbeth, Act V, Scene III: “It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.” DaimlerChrysler Corporation’s Reply Brief in Support of its Motion for Summary Disposition: “At bottom, SCO’s arguments, though full of sound and fury, serve only to demonstrate that summary disposition should be granted.” The…
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Dedicated Perversion?
BBC News: Extent of child net porn revealed — BT proactively block sites identified by the Internet Watch Foundation assessed as “illegal to view” under the 1978 Child Protection Act, presumably blocking such sites at the IP level, as they don’t use transparent proxies any more. However, an interesting comment in the article is: BT…
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Mind If I Borrow Something Blue?
Cool, I’m apparently getting married! And all it took was a text message … I wonder what John will wear … Actually, Sabrina has gotten herself—and her excellent site—a write up in the Daily Telegraph — way to go, hon!