The Combe

Castle Combe was great fun… though it involved the loss of another diverter valve (thank you lousy VW OEM components and God bless you, warranty) and necessitates the replacement of my rear discs and pads. Ouch. Nevertheless, a nice day out (if a bit expensive). However. The much vaunted car-cam failed. Well, it didn’t so [...]

Wheee

Headed to Castle Coombe tomorrow for a day of tracking. Should be good fun, I drove the circuit last year and it’s a blast. I’ve rigged up a camera into my car to take video… hopefully there will be some good footage Edit: here’s a pic from last year…

So it goes, Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut passed away earlier this morning. You may recall I wrote about his last work sometime in 2006. Not much else to say really. God Bless You, Kurt Vonnegut.

Japan is strange…

From TokyoManga via BoingBoing (BoingBoing’s writing)… Dancing Tokyo cosplayer flashmob broken up by cops …Japanese cosplayers gathered for a flashmobby synchronized dance-routine in the middle of Akihabara, Tokyo’s nerd-mecca. Dozens of them did a stupendous dance routine in the middle of the street, but scattered when the cops showed. The video is wild. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okeq0uuldy0[/youtube] That, [...]

RAH RAH R.A.H

I’ve been, in between revising and fine-tuning my project, rereading some works by my favourite author – Robert A. Heinlein. I’m going through Requiem, which is a book of some of his works (notably: Requiem, Tenderfoot in Space, and Destination Moon) as well as several speeches that he made. What really strikes me about Heinlein, [...]

Youtube test

What follows is a test of the youtubes…

S’up

Webmail’s back up again. Instead of using the now-ish roundcube as I had intended, due to a lack of IMAP support on the part of my server (must fix that), I had to use the somewhat older IlohaMail as that provided both IMAP and POP3 support. Just stick in your username (no suffix, it automatically [...]