sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 17th, 2008
The Internet gets referred to as the ‘World Wide Web’ (hence www), but this has long been a misunderstanding of what the Internet actually is. The Internet is a collection of PCs and servers all interlinked and using a common language foundation to allow the sharing of data across these PCs and servers. The [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 15th, 2008
After watching him for the entire of the last season it came as no surprise to watch Lewis Hamilton find his way to the pole position for the Australian Grand Prix.
What came as a bit more of a surprise was the rest of the grid. Last year BMW were languishing in middle grid positions, [...]
Posted in Rants on Mar 12th, 2008
Archetypal rugger bugger Jeremy Clarkson has found himself at the end of a piece of vigilante action when he was photographed by a member of the public travelling at the wheel of a 1970s Mercedes Benz at approx 70MPH whilst talking on his mobile ‘phone.
The woman was in a car that was passing him and [...]
Posted in Rants on Feb 26th, 2008
I wouldn’t want to be a policeman (I suppose I should say ‘police-person in these PC days…).
The job isn’t particularly well paid. They get little accolade for dealing with drunks and violence on a regular basis, and they don’t even get to carry guns like our Transatlantic cousins. Because of this I do [...]
