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RT @WestWingReport: “May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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#RIPSirPatrickMoore - it's a gorgeous clear evenin...
#RIPSirPatrickMoore - it's a gorgeous clear evening - pop outside, look up, let your eyes adjust & enjoy glories of the Universe!
Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
The title of this piece is a quote from the late, great American brainy bugger Gore Vidal. I'm not sure how seriously I actually believe it, but a little pang of...something...went through me yesterd…
Johnny Cash and me.
An early memory of mine is listening to my Uncle Idris play Johnny Cash songs on his guitar. Particularly he did a great rendition of 'Ring of Fire', though without the Mexican trumpets, Mexican trum…
Woohoo! A new boom...?
I'd been expecting - or should that be suspecting - it for some time but we finally do appear to be in the grip of an Internet Boom to match the real world bust. WhenFacebook bought Instagram for a b…
We are the Zuckerborg....
As I mentioned in a previous post about Facebook's purchase of the Instagram mobile photo-mangling application, there is a long and proud tradition in software and Internet industries of companies buy…
...and yes, I saw Jupiter!
Well, I mentioned in my last post that I was going to haul the venerable telescope out of the garage, set it up and then take a look at Jupiter. And on the 29th September I managed to do that. (For a…
Configuring MOWES on a USB Stick
There's an old saying that you can neither be too thin or have too much money. I'd like to add to that list - you can't have too many web servers available on your PC. For the non-geeks amongst yo…
Tweeting in meetings....
I came across this ratherinteresting article from the personal blog of a Pastor in the US recently in which he suggests that Tweeting in Church might be a good idea. Now, I have to admit that I was s…
Please vote positively, and then plan for the future...
The little grey cells are still going through the mill here at Pritchard Towers as I try and work out who it is I'm going to be voting for on Thursday morning. Actually, I'll be voting twice - local …