This weeekend is a joint birthday for my two best friends, Averil and Kerstin.
Unfortunately I was unable to see Kerstin due to family illness affecting her and her daughter, the Munchkin, but had a great time meeting Av, Row and friends including Helen who’s birthday was Star Wars day 🙂
Check out some photos I took with the phone below.
For any president or high official to do this sort of “dirty tricks” style investigation is not just bad but sad that they think it necessary
I do wonder with some topics just how much we are misled into believing their truth than what is really occurring
Where this president is concerned  nothing surprises me but equally it does distress me that they think this is acceptable.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/05/trump-team-hired-spy-firm-dirty-ops-iran-nuclear-deal
Deadpool is just such a cool anti-hero.
Rude, risque and rebellious – he must have studied hard to get those three r’s.
Love the video’s end, the music is OK-ish, but his irreverence is what makes it work best.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44004297
As technology goes, some areas really need extra work, but I am so pleased to see this new bike helmet with some clever technology integration.
The downside for some is that it will require you to have an Apple Watch, which in turn, currently, relies on you also having an iPhone.
However, if you have the requisites, this is a really neat gadget and will add to your safety.
Note that it is available in Europe, not just the US, so have fun.
OMG!
Just watched the teaser trailer for the new Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Lara Croft) and mightily impressed by the look.
Seems to be set in Mexico which gives lots of opportunities.
September 14th is already booked off in preparation for its arrival ???
The Guardian seems to have a “secret” memo showing that if Amber Rudd is in control of her department she would have known about the deportation targets, which currently she claims not to be aware.
In all manner of ways, the current government have shown themselves as untrustworthy.
Their actions after Grenfell show their allegiance is more to landlords than tenants. Windrush shows its more to UKIPpers than people who have added to society. And then we get on to Brexit and the NHS – both situations not helped at all by the work over the last few years by the Tories.
I think we need a new way of governing as the impoverished are worse off, the ill are worse off, and the immigrants (invited to this country) are worse off. The only ones better off are those who are well off to start.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/27/amber-rudd-was-told-about-migrant-removal-targets-leak-reveals
I’m getting involved with something at work which means I’ve been getting my hands dirty with Moodle – https://moodle.org/.
Nothing too heavy yet, but everything I’ve seen so far is simple, straightforward and intuitive.
Which for any CMS, regardless of its focus, is a tremendous achievement.
I was chatting only yesterday saying that in this day and age, any UI (User Interface) that is not simple and intuitive (and with no built in training guidance) is insulting the user and of course will long term lead to a lack of engagement across all possible users.
So Moodle gets a thumbs up, as does WordPress. Joomla and other CMS less so, though I wish I had been able to play with Drupal, but that may yet happen.
So many inventions owe inspiration to shows, a lot of Star Trek has generated work such as tricorders.
But now a different franchise has made its impact – Transformers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-43919460/real-life-transformer-the-japanese-robot-that-becomes-a-car
This is a fantastic step forward in my opinion, and one I am sure Elon Musk is keeping an eye on as well.
The human race needs to expand off the Earth, and yes, we will need to do so and not be the space bound locusts we could be if continued as we do today on Earth.
We need to reduce the reliance and threat to the world through our excessive use of resources, and whilst the initial journeys might be high cost both financially and with some resources, the aim has to be to recycle some of that funding back to sending key resources back. To start an interplanetary marketing operation if you like.
This is just the first step, but I hope that it presages a swift follow up to the next stages of us getting to Mars, and beyond.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43907326
Brilliant documentary and shows how, very sadly, a group of women were unable to pursue their dream of going to space.
indeed, one could say there was a degree of misogyny, especially from those in NASA and the military, who effectively fed NASA with their astronaut candidates.
It was most interesting to hear how accomplished these women were, bearing in mind limitations imposed by law restricting their ability to fly jets and similar.
The US effectively threw away at least one way in which they could have lead the space race.
Of course it’s presented from the women’s perspective but the other sample footage used to show the misogynistic views does resonate and highlight that they lost a key opportunity.
Enjoy a good watch and lots of great footage
https://www.netflix.com/title/80174436?s=i&trkid=14170286
