Goodbye, Tizzy

We said goodbye to our Guinea Pig Tizzy today. She had become very unwell over the last few days and was obviously in a lot of pain. We had no alternative but to take her to the Vet. We will miss her.

A room with a view

We've had a really great week staying at my Sister's summer retreat. Great weather, fantastic views. Oh, and no work!

.... and just look at the view from our bedroom balcony. Doesn't get much better than this!

Three in a row!

Excellent result for Ferrari at Hockenheim - third win in a row for Schumi and the gap to Alonso shrinks....

It's a real possibility that Schumi can win the championship now, e.g. if he wins all the remaining races it won't matter where Alonso finishes although even a Ferrari nut knows that's a pretty tall order. It'll be interesting to see whether Renault can come back at Hungary next week.

How times change...

"Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh one and a half tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949.

"I think there is a world market for about five computers."
Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board of IBM), 1943

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
Ken Olson (President of Digital Equipment Corporation), 1977.

Another 10 points for Schumi

A great result for Schumacher, Ferrari and Massa.

Watched Lucky Numer Slevin last night. What a brilliant film!

World Cup Tickets

A man had two great seats for the World Cup final. As he sits down, another man comes along and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him. "No", he says, "the seat is empty".

"That's incredible!" said the second man, "who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the World Cup final, the biggest sporting event in the year, and not use it?"

The first man says, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. My wife was supposed to come with me, but she passed away. This is the first World Cup Final we haven't been together since we got married".

The second man says, "I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible... I guess you couldn't find someone else, a friend or relative or even a neighbour to take the seat?"

The man shakes his head... "No. They're all at the funeral".

Ham and Eggs

A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

Smith and Wesson

The original point and click interface.

A Riddle

You are driving in a car at a constant speed.
On your left side is a sheer drop and on your right side is a fire engine travelling at the same speed as you.
In front of you is a galloping pig, which is the same size as your car, and you cannot overtake it.
Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level.
Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also travelling at the same speed as you.
What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?






















Get off the children's Merry-Go-Round, you're p*ssed.

Ferraris at the Brickyard

Great result for Ferrari today at Indy - 1st & 2nd. Alonso could only manage 5th. Still a way to go but well done Michael!

Wizzard's soundtrack

This week I have been mainly listening to:

Genius

Went to the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store today. My iMac's CR key has been sticking so I decided to ask the experts. The genius knew his stuff and has resolved the problem. Good job, Apple Store.

Later... The Canadian GP was "normal"... brake problems and dirty off line - bad luck Jacques! At least ITV showed the whole thing despite the world football thing which seems to pervade our very existence! There is still time to close that gap, Michael!

100th post

I found out how to create a favicon - those nano-size icons which display in the browser address bar next to the url on some web sites. I've done one for my site, I really wanted a flesh colour but I'm stuck with the basic 16 colours.

Happy Birthday Maddie!

It was my younger daughter's 13th birthday today - Happy Birthday Maddie!!!

( and I'm still clearing up after your party yesterday!)

The 6 P's

Having vowed that this blog wouldn't mention work, here I am making an exception to the rule.

Today I was asked to attend a meeting at about an hour's notice, unfortunately no-one had considered inviting me when the meeting was set up some days earlier. The subject of the meeting? "Resource Planning". I kid not.

Avoiding the football...

Apparently there is some big football competition just started which I will have to avoid for a couple of months. Even the British Grand Prix was moved from its usual July slot to this weekend so it doesn't clash.

I reckon this was a stroke of luck because the weather has been brilliant all weekend - in fact it was too hot - the F1 teams were not expecting Silverstone to be so hot, track temp was 49 Deg. C. My view, GP itself was a bit dull. Schumi could only manage 2nd to Alonso, so lots of room for improvement, Ferrari.

Amusing web site of the day - see this Official Formula 1 web site page. What is 1th, 2th & 3th? A cathe of auto generated code, I thuthpect!

8 days to go!

... and Schumacher was fastest in Friday's Barcelona test!

Silverstone - 9 days to go

I'm looking forward to the British GP at Silverstone.

Ferrari are back on form at the Barcelona tests with Massa clocking the fastest time. Schumacher will be driving tomorrow.

Damage limitation

As I expected Alonso won the Monaco GP without any difficulty. Schumi drove a fantastic race to finish 5th, after starting from the pit lane. By the end of the first few laps he'd made up 5 places and at the end he posted the fastest lap. I reckon this all goes to show that Schumi had no need of underhanded tricks to get pole - his performance said it all!

Bad luck again for Kimi but well done DC - Red Bull's first podium!

Schumi loses pole!

Monaco stewards decided, on very flimsy evidence, that Schumacher was guilty and have deleted all his times. So he starts at the back with Massa. If that isn't showing favouritism in a negative way (aka Ferrari bashing) I don't know what is! That miserable little Spaniard will start from pole and probably win the GP unless he does something stupid. So yet another boring race in prospect and the championship pushed more in Alonso and Renault's (yeah, right course it really is a Renault!) favour.

If this doesn't make Schumacher quit F1 then nothing will. Or maybe that's what this is all about......