As ever the Belgium F1 was great entertainment at the weekend, fair play to Lewis, bad luck Jenson - (brought back memories of Oz '94 - Schuey/Hill). Anyway, Spa, I remember vividly the 1998 Spa race where there was a huge crash at the start, I was with my wife on our Honeymoon watching, I remember standing up in a really quiet bar and shouting 'Oh My God!', wondering only if there were any injuries and also what Murray Walker was saying as the commentator was speaking in Greek. There were some other Brits in the bar moaning about some football match or other should be on, whilst we were witnessing what we thought to be absolute carnage, fortunately it was only Car-nage, lol. They show the footage every time they visit Spa.
Finally got round to watching Avatar in 3d at the weekend, wow stunning, what imagination that James Cameron has, pure genius.
You can tell we're back to work, the sun is out!
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Holiday
Just come back from holidaying in Cornwall, for once the weather was fantastic, we stayed at a place called Port Isaac where they film Doc Martin, lovely quaint Cornish Fishing village (stinks a bit).
There were 9 Children and 3 Adults in one big house (ouch!), a house that has made a starring role in said TV program many times, and it was even still standing when we left - just about.
Had a few visits to Polzeath beach so some of my Nephews and my eldest son could hit the surf, and I could sit and eat a Pasty whilst having a bit of a read in the sun, bliss.
And a trip to Cornwall wouldn't be complete without an afternoon on Harlyn Bay beach, so I can sit and reminisce about times gone by.
All in all a beautiful place, a county that I consider to be very unique to the UK, mostly unspoilt and (as long as you avoid Newquay) not too many people around.
Just wish it wasn't so far away!!
There were 9 Children and 3 Adults in one big house (ouch!), a house that has made a starring role in said TV program many times, and it was even still standing when we left - just about.
Had a few visits to Polzeath beach so some of my Nephews and my eldest son could hit the surf, and I could sit and eat a Pasty whilst having a bit of a read in the sun, bliss.
And a trip to Cornwall wouldn't be complete without an afternoon on Harlyn Bay beach, so I can sit and reminisce about times gone by.
All in all a beautiful place, a county that I consider to be very unique to the UK, mostly unspoilt and (as long as you avoid Newquay) not too many people around.
Just wish it wasn't so far away!!
Friday, 7 May 2010
My latest gadget
I have recently treated myself to an Ebook reader, I have to say I was sceptical to start with, I love reading and I generally have enough time looking at Screens both in work and home life, so to be staring at another screen was a concern. But after now owning the reader for a month, I have to say I have really got into it.
The display is called e-ink, and it creates a high contrast view of text or graphics in black and white (kind of light grey), the image is very stable and it does feel paper like, to produce the image it uses no light so it's very easy on your eyes and also very low power consumption, though as usual not quite what the manufacturer quotes. It also works in the brightest sunlight, it actually becomes clearer the brighter the light.
You can view a number of different formats, I currently have text documents, PDF documents and the EPUB file format, but it can also display Word documents, RTF and a whole host of others, and it can store enough books for even the most avid reader to occupy them for at least 6 months, without updating.
It has a zoom function S, M or L, I tend to zoom to M, it makes it very readable.
So if you're thinking about getting one, go for it!
All the best
Barrie
The display is called e-ink, and it creates a high contrast view of text or graphics in black and white (kind of light grey), the image is very stable and it does feel paper like, to produce the image it uses no light so it's very easy on your eyes and also very low power consumption, though as usual not quite what the manufacturer quotes. It also works in the brightest sunlight, it actually becomes clearer the brighter the light.
You can view a number of different formats, I currently have text documents, PDF documents and the EPUB file format, but it can also display Word documents, RTF and a whole host of others, and it can store enough books for even the most avid reader to occupy them for at least 6 months, without updating.
It has a zoom function S, M or L, I tend to zoom to M, it makes it very readable.
So if you're thinking about getting one, go for it!
All the best
Barrie
Thursday, 1 April 2010
F1 - My Sport.
The only sport I follow is Grand Prix, I enjoy the glitz and the glamour a bit, but mostly it's about the cars and the drivers, it's a sport us Brits actually do best (for a change).
I have followed the sport since I was a kid, the days of James Hunt, John Watson and Niki Lauda.
A while back I was given a 'pit pass' from the Beneton team following a sales pitch from one of their sponsors (thanks Cisco), everyone turned up with the biggest set of cameras I'd ever seen, sooo interested in the sales pitch, not.
It was when Fisichella and Wurtz were in the team, we were able to go right by them in the pits where they were testing the cars, one engineer lifted the engine hood and proceeded to make an adjustment with a pair of pliers, I couldn't believe it - how primitive!!
I do miss Murray Walker though, here's a man who could make comparisons to an incident by dropping back into his memory upto 50 years (I suppose he reminded me of when I was a kid), he had such love of the sport, but I suppose he knew it was time to hang up his microphone.
There was a blip for about five tortuous years, this is know as the Schumacher/Ferrari era, it was boring, boring, boring, but I still never missed a race, painful as it was, to this day I never support Ferrari even if Jack Dee was driving for them.
Well onto this season, it's looking good, hopefully Schuey will enjoy fighting it out in the middle of the pack (tee hee!), and we see Hamilton and Button fighting it out at the front, though it may well be Vettle's year this year, but no matter because it's always entertaining.
This weekend it's the Malaysian GP!!
I have followed the sport since I was a kid, the days of James Hunt, John Watson and Niki Lauda.
A while back I was given a 'pit pass' from the Beneton team following a sales pitch from one of their sponsors (thanks Cisco), everyone turned up with the biggest set of cameras I'd ever seen, sooo interested in the sales pitch, not.
It was when Fisichella and Wurtz were in the team, we were able to go right by them in the pits where they were testing the cars, one engineer lifted the engine hood and proceeded to make an adjustment with a pair of pliers, I couldn't believe it - how primitive!!
I do miss Murray Walker though, here's a man who could make comparisons to an incident by dropping back into his memory upto 50 years (I suppose he reminded me of when I was a kid), he had such love of the sport, but I suppose he knew it was time to hang up his microphone.
There was a blip for about five tortuous years, this is know as the Schumacher/Ferrari era, it was boring, boring, boring, but I still never missed a race, painful as it was, to this day I never support Ferrari even if Jack Dee was driving for them.
Well onto this season, it's looking good, hopefully Schuey will enjoy fighting it out in the middle of the pack (tee hee!), and we see Hamilton and Button fighting it out at the front, though it may well be Vettle's year this year, but no matter because it's always entertaining.
This weekend it's the Malaysian GP!!
Friday, 29 January 2010
A word...
I have of late abandoned what was one of my most favourite pastimes, reading (no not the City in Berkshire, Literature dear boy). The main problem was I hit a wall of really rubbish books, four to be precise (of which none that I managed to complete) and finally my brain gave up and promptly fell asleep.
I was absolutely determined to get back into reading as it's been a great pleasure of mine for a long, long time, so over the Christmas period, having received 5 new books for presents (they were mostly Science fantasy with a couple of Autobiographies thrown in for good measure, well it was Christmas!) I sat myself down and managed to finish two of the rubbish books (as mentioned earlier with dogged determination) and also the two really enjoyable Autobiographies.
One of the Science Fantasy books given was the first book of a series of three books that complete the fifteen book Wheel of Time series (15 books in all, gulp!). I have had great pleasure in reading these since 1990, but, unfortunately the author Robert Jordan died in 2007 and left the eleventh book incomplete. Whilst this was obviously a huge sadness it was also a nightmare for his literature followers.
However, between the publisher and his wife (God bless 'um) they found someone to write up the notes he had made before his death, his name is Brandon Sanderson, I will read it and let you know how I get on.
All the best
Baz
I was absolutely determined to get back into reading as it's been a great pleasure of mine for a long, long time, so over the Christmas period, having received 5 new books for presents (they were mostly Science fantasy with a couple of Autobiographies thrown in for good measure, well it was Christmas!) I sat myself down and managed to finish two of the rubbish books (as mentioned earlier with dogged determination) and also the two really enjoyable Autobiographies.
One of the Science Fantasy books given was the first book of a series of three books that complete the fifteen book Wheel of Time series (15 books in all, gulp!). I have had great pleasure in reading these since 1990, but, unfortunately the author Robert Jordan died in 2007 and left the eleventh book incomplete. Whilst this was obviously a huge sadness it was also a nightmare for his literature followers.
However, between the publisher and his wife (God bless 'um) they found someone to write up the notes he had made before his death, his name is Brandon Sanderson, I will read it and let you know how I get on.
All the best
Baz
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