It’s not much of a photograph, I know – but the image and my posting of it are appropriate for today – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day The theme for this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is [url=http://www.itu.int/en/wtisd/2014/Pages/theme.aspx]Broadband for Sustainable Development[/url] This is an issue that is so important for a community …
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On this day in 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances. I was very much stuck today. Having spent 8 hours or more trying to rid my PC of some malware, there had not been …
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It’s [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aly_Bain]Aly Bain[/url]’s birthday. I first came across Aly in the mid-eighties. I was recovering from surgery and draping myself across the sofa, idly watching the Shetland Folk Festival on the telly between naps. My son, then around 7 years old, I guess, came home from School and exclaimed “[i]Oh, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham![/i]” …
365:134 My Name is Jack
It’s [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bruce]Jack Bruce[/url]’s birthday. This is my trusty tripod, Jack, from 3-legged Thing. 3LT tripods are named after great rock musicians. I love it when a good plan comes together
365:133 Beanz Meanz Lemuria
The Lemuralia or Lemuria was a feast in the religion of ancient Rome during which the Romans performed rites to exorcise the malevolent and fearful ghosts of the dead from their homes. The unwholesome spectres of the restless dead, the lemures or larvae were propitiated with offerings of beans. On those days, the Vestals would …
365:132 Rhythm Sticks
Ian Robins Dury 12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000 Hit me.
365:131 Mood Indigo
1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
365:130 The Feel Good Factor
Lee Brilleaux 10 May 1952 – 7 April 1994
365:129 Talking Heads
It’s Alan Bennett’s birthday today. I forgot that this is a free account and that you therefore cannot look at a larger version to see that my talking heads are spouting Bennett quotations, so here they are in readable form: [i]Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks …
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BT came and replaced our telegraph pole today. Our wire is now well aloft and nicely taut, with the added bonus of a lesser chance of a huge chunk of oak tumbling down on the chickens without warning. The old pole had a considerable list!