I have always been fascinated by history and technology, so I liked this a lot:

http://www.vincelewis.net/ekranoplan.html

It is a plane that flies on water, designed at the height of the cold war, particularly interesting are some of the designs, ingenious stuff.

In other news I have fixed the problem that I had on the radio the other day. The problem was quite simple, I was getting a bandwidth error from the playout software that I use. I assumed that it meant my internet connection had dropped in upload speed, which has happened before. That is not actually what had happened. I kept all of my mp3’s on a standalone network drive, and what was happening was that when I was transferring the files off my ethernet drive to my computer. Then I was sending it from my PC via my router off to t’net.

And therein lies the problem I was basically sending more information through my router than it could handle. I have deleted Ubuntu off my other local partition on one of my local hard drives in the main PC. I did a test on FTLFM the other day, and it all went swimmingly. Good stuff. Playlist is here, it is being updated regularly at the moment as I am busy ripping vinyl with this. And for once we are not living in rip off Britain, $39.99 on there, and I paid about £26 including shipping. It is exactly the kind of thing that I like, designed to do a job, and does it brilliantly and simply. In this day and age of multifunction devices of all sorts, simplicity seems to have been forgotten on the way. Simplicity is not a bad thing folks, when I want to read a newspaper I don’t want to spend 5 minutes booting it up, checking file links and integrity and so on, do you? I love gadgets as much as anyone though, I am not denying that.

In other news, I only have 8 shifts left at the police before I leave, hurray! Not been awful there, but I am not a fan of night shifts, oh no. Jen  had said to me that a lot of people that do  night shifts are a bit odd, and I have to say that she was right. Lovely people on  the whole, don’t get me wrong, just odd. I am now pondering though, do night shifts attract odd people, or do they become odd after doing them for a while? A study should be done I feel. FUNDING AHOY!

Ta ra lovelies, I am off to play with my girls, and do some cooking with them over the weekend, picture may appear if you are very good.

Love, hugs and kisses,

trev