Anyone find it slow ? I was trying to watch Dr Who last evening and it kept stopping to load. Speed of line is not an issue, I figured half the country might be watching stuff though...

Telly has been a bot poor as usual this year in my humble opinion.

So it's Christmas Eve, I like to think it all starts today.

Wishing all members and guests a Happy Christmas and hopefully a relaxing time.

May peace be upon the world for as long as possible.

Yup, I woke up to a dead hard drive, my external USB drive has failed, I blame myself really, the drive is at least 5 years old and I always tell people, customers, when they reach 5 years replace them before they die, I didn't and have lost all my music, videos and pictures.

Not too happy about that.

I was watching a program on TV about Richard Wilson and One foot in the grave, as a sitcom it has so many classic moments in and I like a good laugh.

Anyway it gave me the idea to start a new topic of classic comedy moments, starting with this gem.

Been looking for a planetarium for the PC, had a go with Sky Globe a few years back, found this free one "Stellarium", runs in OpenGL and its graphics are pretty good, might be worth downloading if you like the occasional look at the stars.

I see it has plugins too and one of them can send commands to a telescope to find things in the sky, that's how I read it, so it could be used by serious astronomers too, saying that they probably know about it already.

We had company last night, sort of a pre-Christmas family gathering.
We had 6 adults and 11 children.

Sandee is so good with children.
Here's Sandee before they arrive at 7 p.m.


Here's she's saying goodbye as they leave at 2 a.m.
They were playing cowboys and Indians.
At one point I had to go in and untie her.
They were doing war dance around her as she hung upside down.

Hummm.... would have been a cute pic.
I must remember to have camera handy when they return at Christmas.

America want to get their hands on Gary Mckinnon, the hacker that got into a number of U.S. military computers.

Gary faces up to 60 years imprisonment in a foreign country.

Should Britain hand over Gary to the American government?
Take part in the poll and give your opinion.

Gary's story.

McKinnon is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers over a 13-month period between February 2001 and March 2002, using the name 'Solo'. The computer networks he is accused of hacking include networks owned by NASA, the US Army, US Navy, Department of Defense, and the US Air Force.

Read More:

http://www.freegary.org.uk/