BBC 4 must know that I’ve turned 50. The whole evening has been filled with prog music! Hooray! We’ve had everything from the late 60s right through to the present. Well done BBC 4!
BBC 4 Celebrates My Birthday
July 24th, 2010A Decade In Space
July 8th, 2010
I’ve just been giving my space site a review and a face-lift in preparation for a new season of astronomy courses and I see that it is now ten years old. So the old Spacepod has been exploring space for my students and others for a whole decade! Now, fitted with an alien interstellar drive, I hope that it will extend its reach across the galaxy. Watch for improvements there over the next few months.
Until then, congratulations, pod people.
Happy Birthday, Dalai Lama!
July 6th, 2010
The Dalai Lama is celebrating his 75th birthday today. If you support his message of peace and tolerance in the world, there is an opportunity to wish him well via the Avaaz website. There you can leave a message that will be displayed on a wall of warm wishes just outside the main Temple in Dharamsala. If anyone deserves the best wishes of the world on his birthday, surely it is a man who has dedicated his life to the best for the world.
Happy Birthday, your Holiness.
Strange Glitch
June 23rd, 2010My apologies if you’ve had some trouble accessing the site today. My hosting company was having some problems with their mail server, which seems unrelated and then WordPress couldn’t access my SQL database. Hence no web site.
I’d just upgraded to WordPress v3.0 and so I thought there might be some theme problems. Deleting a theme file brought it all back and here we are again, although it seems that I deleted the file from a theme I wasn’t using at the time. Maybe just looking at my SQL database rejigged something.
One of life’s little mysteries… Anyway I better get out there doing stuff that I can put on here and pay more attention to my little web site. It was probably just lonely.