People are stupid Just when you think people can't get can anymore dumb, someone proves you wrong.

You heard it first...well maybe... Windows 'Longhorn' is now officially known as Windows Vista.

The engines finally 'canna take it. My blogging buddy Carl Tyler has already mentioned it, but it's worth mentioning again that James Doohan of Star Trek fame died the other day at the age of 85. A childhood hero of mine along with the rest of the cast from the original series it's hard to believe time has caught up with these guys. Funny enough he lived in Redmond too.

It's made of cheese apparently Today is the anniversary of the first landing on the moon in 1969 and it’s hard to imagine the impact it had, all of a sudden everyone wanted to be an astronaut and for a moment it looked as if it was the first step in manned exploration of the near solar system. We know of course that it’s turned out very differently and we haven’t been back for over 30 years, which if you think about it for a second it seems a strange thing to say. However it’s important to understand that the moon landings were as politically motivated as they were scientific; the Americans were keen to show the Russians who the cold war ‘Daddy’ was. Besides paranoia probably imagined the Russians building some kind of moon base which could point nuclear missiles at the US. The cold war was like that! If your interested where they landed, Google as well as bringing us the brilliant Google Earth have also something similar with the moon.

IT is easy Next time you complain your job in IT it too hard, remember a nine year old could do it.

London speaks... You have to love this city! I know I do.

2012 It's great news that the Olympics are coming to London in 2012. I guess the queque for tickets starts now. Imagine there are children in their mid to late teens to don't know it yet but they'll be competing in the games...how wonderful!

You know when... ...someone has too much time on their hands. Freud would have a field day!

Up the old Sea Dog One of the great thing about working for a company that is dependant on Business Partners is that there are regular ‘event’ to socialise and network with them. One such ‘event’ is the annual Silicon Cup at Cowes where a bunch of BPs and MS types get together and race around in yachts and general swap tales of jibs, sheets and tillers. It's also worth mentioning that it also raises a lot of money for charity. I was invited along by the top chaps at Trinity Expert Systems who I work with a lot and we all had a great time. They put us up at the Royal Corinthian Yacht club so we didn’t have to sleep on the boat, which was rather handy after all the eating and drinking. Er...hum, business meetings that went on. One of the chaps from Trinity came over in his own 6.3m ‘Rib’ which sported a rather tasty 150 Yamaha outboard motor, so on the Tuesday evening we were sat in the middle of the Solent watching the fireworks celebrating Trafalgar 200. All in all a fun few days.