Year: 2008

I never thought of it as witnessing a revolution but carmi is right.

my son had Nintendo games and recently remarked that he’s “amazed” at some of the stuff out there now and that it made him feel “old’

wow – I’m the mother of something old OY!

Aye – cos we’ve been in at the start, we’ve been able to watch how they’ve steadily improved the moving image bit by bit (pixel by pixel?) with small steps.

It was weird watching Beowulf, for the first few minutes we really weren’t sure whether what was on the big screen was real or animation. The first travelling camera shot gave it away 🙂

It absolutely blows me away how far the state of the art has advanced in such a short amount of time. I remember the first time I loaded Flight Simulator on an Apple IIe (yup, I’m dating myself…). It was little more than stick graphics on a green screen. But the concept was incredible, and as I took off and climbed out, I felt like we were on the verge of something transformational.

Fast forward to today and often I can’t tell the difference between animation and reality. It’s a privilege to be able to witness this revolution.

2 pictures today … This is “then”, a screenie from 1984 of a ship approaching a space station. It’s from the Wikipedia entry for Elite.

This is “now”, or more precisely a couple of weeks ago while I was moving stuff around.

Eve Trinity is pretty 🙂

I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to hear someone else say that! Let the woman rest in peace! (And thanks for popping in – more on mine in the next day or two)

Apologies in advance for any ranting I put in here 🙂 It’s directed at old men and overenthusiastic press people.

We had the Diana coroner verdict announced yesterday and the conclusion they reached was “unlawfully killed due to ‘gross negligence’ of driver Henri Paul and the paparazzi.” More from the BBC here … It’s confirmed a few things that we’ve known for over 10 years :

The driver of the car was driving under the influence of alcohol
The passengers were content to be driven by him
The only person to survive was the only one wearing a seatbelt
Paparazzi are … … … … … … swine.
(had to delete a few words from the paparazzi bit or I’d have broken my record for swearing in a post – insert nasty words and curses as you see fit)

I’m hoping that the verdict will put to bed the various conspiracy theories that surround Diana. The memories that we used to have of Diana surrounded the good things she got up to while she was alive. Those are steadily getting replaced by the stories that have cropped up since that crash. Even though I wasn’t a Diana fan when she was around, any hostility I felt has well and truly been replaced by sympathy driven by how the conspiracy people are masking the good things.

There’s a little more than the coroner’s inquest at work with Diana though. There’s also the two men who have taken grievous advantage of the confidence shown in them by our former Princess. To his credit, one of those two men has stayed quiet lately. The other one is helping to fuel the conspiracy theories, with the inquest judge telling the jury that it was “blindingly obvious” that he had lied to them.

It’s not often I feel the need for a rant but the conspiracy theorists have drawn one out of me this time … It’s been over ten years since Diana died and the nation showed how much she was loved when it happened. The latest investigation to report confirmed what we already knew from the previous inquests.

Time to let the poor girl rest.

Heh heh heh – I think Snow Cat is thoroughly disgusted with me now … my downstairs window doesn’t get opened. Chronos has a tendency to climb in and then jump on you when you’re not looking 😉

I’ve also never fed Chronos, however CK spoils him to make up for that 🙂

Snow didn’t last long, think we’re being shielded by Cornwall from the SW, the rest of England to the North and East and finally Ireland to the NW.

Snow cat doesn’t look to happy! Great shot of the snow. We had some weird stuff (snow, rain, & freezing temp) this morning and they delayed school for two hours.

BTW, Michele sent me to say Hi.

Poor Chronos! If memory serves it was the briefest of flurries though! I think the weather was all snowed out from it’s exertions in the South East where they had real snow!

Hiya TBB 🙂

You’ve been unusually quiet lately, hope you’re feeling ok 🙂