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Written 13th January 2010 by Rich

2009 is Dead! Long live 2010! ()

But still no flying car

2010 came in with a whimper everywhere except in Australia. What has been coined as 'Y2K.1' struck a bank in the upside down land which caused thousands of chip 'n' pin machines to believe it was 2016... thus rendering the Castlemaine XXXX drinkers' cards useless as the system claimed they had expired.

Of course, as everybody knows, we're all going to die in 2012 anyway (John Cusack said so) so this is doubly stupid; of course that is if we assume that this is actually 2010. And the evidence suggests it isn't... My favourite lunchtime toilet fodder is El Reg, a science and technology news site, and they say it might actually be 2015. Or 2014. Or 2006...

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Written 14th December 2009 by G

Controversy ()

Radio 4 & I

Well it has been quite some time since my last post. There are many reasons for this, but none that really excuse it so apologies for that. That said, I now have something worth saying. Driving to work today I was listening to Radio 4 (something I am finding myself doing more and more as it is not as lame as we young people seem to think it is). Anyway I find some of their interviews very good, and feel Radio 4 at least is wholly justifiable in the eyes of the licence fee payer (of which I am one).

Anyway there was a wealth of controversy beamed across the airwaves this morning. From the British Army Chaplin who said you have to admire the Taliban for the dedication to their faith. Now this has largely been taken out of context, and was said immediately after a statement claiming no one could find any part of the Taliban’s regime that could be supported. Now I actually tend to agree with his comments. It is true that they have taken a rather warped view of their religious texts, and an obvious tendency towards violence along with them. However, it is also true that they have done this because they believe it is what their God wants. Now I realise any act of violence portrayed under the pretence of religion is somewhat far of the intended mark of whichever parable or passage they are quoting, but history reflects times in all cultures when they have taken the Lord’s name and used it as justification for an act of war, the Crusades being a particularly large and prevalent example in British history. Now let me reiterate I despise the methods and actions of the Taliban, but I do respect the British army for trying to understand their motivations. It has even been uttered quietly that talks with the Taliban may be the only way to resolve the war we are currently in. Indeed, during the IRA conflict many thought a peaceful resolution could not be met, but here, decades on we see a peace, uneasy at times but certainly preferred to the activities that marred an otherwise beautiful land for so long.

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Written 13th December 2009 by Rich

Living Up to Sterotypes ()

Inside every fat person... is a Twix.

Stereotypes keep life predictable.

I know without even looking that when I'm stuck in a long queue of traffic, that car whizzing down the empty outside lane with its indicator on, trying to push into my lane, will either be a BMW or a 1999 Vauxhall Astra in silver driven by a twenty-something bloke in a beanie hat.

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Written 20th October 2009 by Rich

It's 2009 for Christsakes, where's my Flying Car? ()

Uhhhh, but you can keep the weird tinfoil boiler suit...

You will have noticed, as I have, that not even that source of all things engineeringly wonderful (Audi) have brought out something that takes you to work in the morning at 3,000 feet.

So if we want to get to work at 3,000 ft, we either have to be a Certified Flight Instructor, own a microlight (and, um, work somewhere with a half decent sized lawn), or drive a plane near the Hudson last February... although you'll not be at 3,000ft for long...

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Written 9th October 2009 by Rich

The Greatest Software Sins Ever Committed ()

And some ill-disguised finger pointing at the Big Software Co's....

Software is something that was once the produce of people with collossal beards who lived in dark rooms, wore sandals, and looked down their glasses-adorned noses at the proles who didn't even know simple two's-complement binary arithmetic.

But now everybody's at it, and some are getting it completely wrong. Somebody needs to lay down the ground rules for software and it might as well be me.

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Written 21st September 2009 by Rich

Is it just me or is the world getting camper? ()

Also, some stuff about cars...

It has been known, on occasion, for me to be a bit camp.

That sound you're hearing is everybody I know saying in unison (and in disbelief), "on occasion?!!"

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Written 1st September 2009 by Rich

LJ.com Temporarily Offline ()

A headsup to our RSS feed readers...

Dear loyal reader,

Due to the incompetence of Freeola (our domain host), who don't feel the need to take backups of their web server, LostJohnnies.com will be temporarily offline while we rebuild the site from our own backups.

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Written 28th August 2009 by Rich

Time Travel is Easy Thanks to Time being Generally Mis-Managed ()

Don't even need to go 88mph...

It's lunchtime, 12:00pm. Noon. I want to see what the world looks like at 1:40pm but don't want to wait 100 minutes.

Easy.

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Written 6th July 2009 by Rich

My Dad Has 'Teh Psychic' ()

Audi Power transcends the Astral Plane

I was watching Transporter 3 the other day and drooling over the delicious V12 S8 in it when I was intrigued to know just how much it would cost to buy an Audi A8...

A quick visit to Auto Trader revealed the shocking answer that I could more-or-less swap my A4 for a year-older A8 with more kit than PC World on board. Gotta love recessions!

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Written 5th June 2009 by Rich

Air France 447 ()

Dude, Where's My Plane?

Having recently seen Zeitgeist (see my previous blog) and suddenly becoming wildly paranoid about everything, I have built up some theories about Air France flight 447 and why it's suddenly 'vanished'.

First, I am pretty certain the mystery of the disappearance will continue long after the black boxes are recovered, and I am certain that the French government are already planning how to convincingly 'lose' the black boxes before their contents are revealed to the public.

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