Powys

Powys, originally uploaded by davew1.

For the first time in ages, I have put a picture up on Flickr

Reading

Another book that I have read, but up until now have not written about is called "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown.

I have to say that for me it did not quite work and at the end of it I felt some how that I had been short changed, I don't know how to put that into words that feeling but that's what it was.


I think and this is only my opinion on this that the book needed to have been edited harder by an editor who was after a good story that would entertain and not worry about the author's feelings too much.

I was entertained in parts of the book but overall as I have said before I felt that the author has some how or other managed to short change me in giving me a full enjoyable story.

Reading

I have just completed reading "Why does e=mc2" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw I had a bit of a problem with parts of the book, I got the feeling that the authors lost site of who they were writing the book for.

I must admit that I liked the book and it did explain some of the terms that I have heard on the TV and seen on some websites.

Posts

I see that according to Blogger this is my 782 post. I know that's not many compared to many other folks and there blog pages, but then again I only blog when I have some thing I want to say and also want to be able to find later.

I do wonder if Twitter has killed my need to blog, in fact I wonder if the rate of blogging has fallen off some what.

I have noticed that you don't see any one making so many comments about blogging, perhaps it's no longer flavour of the month or some thing.

Anyway I just noticed all that and that my level of posts has dropped right off, I shall just carry on a post at a time as and when I have some thing to say or report on.

Dirk Maggs

As you may or may not know I had a really bad day not so long a go, when I lost my Dirk Maggs website, and some how or other the six yes that's right six backups did not work and the database that ran the whole thing also broke.(Just don't ask)

It's easy to see how I was just a little bit upset( and that's an understatement!)

So what's a man to do?


Well start again!


That's what I have done and I am pleased that so far I think this version of the site is better than the last one. The good news is that all radio shows up to 1998 are now back on apart from the images that go with each show.

At the rate that I am redoing each page I think I will be done by Xmas 2010!

sunset 6

sunset 6, originally uploaded by laratyg.

Love how much mood this image has

BBQ

Has a good BBQ only thing is the noise from the kids next door, I have clean forgot just how much noise 4 kids can make.

Reading

Another book that I think I can say I have read is "The cloud collector's handbook" by Gavin Pretor-Pinney I hope that you can see from the books title why I said that I think I can claim that I have read it, I must admit that it's a great little book for working out what sort of clouds you can see and it will also give you extra information such as what height the clouds are at, and it always to me comes as a bit of a surprise just how heigh some cloud type are.

The other thing that i like about this book is that it goes on to give information on some of the stuff that you can see in the sky that is rare but is well known about.


Such as Sun-dogs I had heard of them, I have now since reading the book realised that I have indeed seen them and not realised just what they are.

This is not a book that is entertaining, it can't be but as a useful reference book it works a treat.

Hot

Looks like today will be the hottest day of the year, and about time to so I thinks, I mean we have had a very cold winter so I think that it's only right that we now have some warm sunshine.

Well I know for once that I deserve some sunshine.

Reading

I have had some free time, well leave. I managed to do some reading this first post is about the first book that I read.

Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.

Not too much too say other than its a great book and I can see why it has sold more than 1 million copies, based on the qi shows some of the items in the book made me think how much stuff you think you know that is wrong.

Well worth the read.

Posts

I see that I have not done very many blog posts of late, mainly as I have not had anything to talk about, so why say fluff?

Reading

I have finally finished another book, for some reason this year I am not reading as many books as I do normally and also I don't seem to have as much time to read, which is strange as I don't feel any busier than this time last year, perhaps it's old age or something, who knows.

So the book is called "A little history of the world" by E.H Gombrich, all I can say is that it is great and I see why it sold 6 million copies, its easy to read and I did learn lots