I have also added a new page here to the site that displays the latest ten of my Flickr uploads.

Go Flickr.

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Here is a quick video of me in my kitchen as the earthquake took place.

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However, finding live tracking that covered EU air routes was not as easy as I imagined. The US is well covered, but the EU? Not so much.

After much searching around I eventually discovered FlightStats, which offers just what I was looking for; live mapping, flight status, arrival, departure and delay times, and even free email alerts.

All in all, a very useful tool for EU flight tracking. Recommended.

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It’s also going to be pretty much the theme tune of my life for this week, I suspect, but that’s a different story.

Play it loud. It’s the only way.

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Swine Flu Text Message

Roughly translated it says;

“Autumn officially begins today, and thus Swine Flu will probably return, and most of you will die. If you begin to feel unwell, please file your tax return immediately. “

No, actually it says;

“With symptoms of flu, please stay in your house and telephone 808242424 or contact your doctor. Strengthen your hygiene measures. Avoid infecting others. Consult www.dgs.pt”.

The tax return part probably comes later.

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I ordered a couple of books from Amazon yesterday, both of which sound quite interesting.

The first is Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking, and the second is Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals.

The first book I just happened to notice whilst wandering around Amazon. The reviews looked good and the subject is always interesting, so I bought it. The second book was recommended to me by tinydoctor on identica.

Hopefully the books will arrive in a week or so.

Incidentally, tinydoctor, aka Dr. Yoshev Omed, has a good blog; ‘Dr Omed’s Tent Show Revival‘. Worth a read.

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I could write a book on the different adventures this place has had, from the first days of Blogger.com (“What is a Weblog?”) to GreyMatter to MovableType to pMachine to ExpressionEngine to WordPress, and there were probably yet more scripts in between.

There have been at least three different domain names, and I really cannot remember all of the different servers used, the ISP’s contracted, the different countries and locations that I have typed the posts in – or sometimes even the condition that I was in as I posted them. This blog has been with me through some interesting times, and to coin a phrase David Bowie once used when talking of his wilder days; “You don’t know half the story”.

Some of you reading this have been around right back from the very beginning, and thanks a bunch for that. Thanks also to all of the writers of all the thousands and thousands of comments over the years. Most of those comments have not been transferred between servers and scripts, but I still have them all archived.

Yet more thanks goes out to all of you who have taken the time to write the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of personal emails to me over the years. Whether sharing expertise, pointing out things I might be interested in, recipes, technical help, music, movie and book recommendations, or simply just shooting the breeze, every email was good to get and good to read.

It has been a real blast meeting so many interesting people via this place.

A hat tip fom me to all of you.

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Thirty minutes ago my instinct really screamed at me and, sure enough, things really were not right as the scorpion shown above was heading extremely rapidly towards my left foot – which was at the time completely unprotected against attack.

Seriously dangerous? I have no idea, but it is quite clearly a scorpion and that was enough for me to decide to apply a little ‘maximum prejudice’ to it.

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So fast. It seems like I only wrote this a couple of months ago.

On the other hand, someone I wrote about a little less time ago now seems like ancient history; this guy. Remember him?

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To begin with, like most people I guess, my reaction was mainly; “How? Why?”, and then…”Wow”.

I wasn’t really expecting to have much more of a reaction than that, I’m pretty realistic, and people die. That’s the way it goes.

Yet I did have much more of a reaction, and I was surprised at myself by just how deeply saddened I was at the news. So I thought about it some more, and only then I realised that, at forty-five years old, I have known of, listened to, and danced with Michael Jackson for forty years.

Forty years. Since I was just a mere five years old. No wonder I found his death such a genuinely sad event.

So RIP, MJ, and thankyou.

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