Since I do quite a fair bit of blogging I thought  would start a blog about blogging! I've named it Blogging and…, as a style thing each post will start with "Blogging and …", for example the first post was called Blogging and How To Create a Free Blog at Blogger.com, the next Blogging and […]

Two atoms were walking down the street. One atom says to the other one, “I’ve lost an electron! The 2nd atom replies, “Are you sure?” Says the 1st atom, “I’m positive.”

I wrote a little email to someone recently about how long I have been using Linux and I though I would cut and paste a section from the email and post it here!  I’ve been using it since kernel version 0.96 which was was back in the early 90’s… In about 2002 I switched 100% […]

I have taken a guest blogging position on rGadget.com. My first post is Arrington’s CrunchPad in the Shops by November; Real Competition for Apple’s Unnamed iTablet and my author profile is here.

I’ve signed up to Identi.ca, you can see my profile at http://identi.ca/garysims  For those who don’t know, Identi.ca is an open source social networking and micro-blogging service where users can send text updates (called dents) up to 140 characters long in a similar way to Twitter.

It was once said that the computers on Apollo 11 had less computing power than a modern pocket calculator and now we can read to machine code and see! The code for the Apollo Guidance Computer, or AGC has been transcribed, by Google, from scanned images of printouts for both the Command Module (codenamed Comanche054), […]

Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high school diploma to fix one; a reassurance to those of us who fly routinely in our jobs. After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a ‘gripe sheet,’ which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics correct […]

Just saw this on the BBC… A couple from the United States got a shock when they learned their family photo was being used, unauthorised, on an advertising poster in Prague. Danielle and Jeff Smith used the photo as their Christmas card, and also posted it on an internet blog. A friend travelling in the […]