May 2005 Entries
Off to the Free Harrogate Microsoft Tech Roadshow tomorrow and Thursday. I'm quite looking forwards to it! Microsoft don’t get oop north very often, and I have constant envy of a friend of mine based in London who is forever going to various courses, functions, events, etc. This is actually a bugbear of mine. In the US and Canada, events seem to be spread out a lot more. I know the UK is very south-east based, and yes geographically its not that big, but we seem to have a very large developer...
Turns out that , at the end of WWII, us Brits assassinated Himler before the Yanks could interrogate him. History up to this point has it that he committed suicide before being turned over to the Yanks for interrogation and the Nuremburg trials. Question has to be – why? There is a theory it’s because the British government were negotiating with him and they didn’t want the US to find out, because it would have been embarrassing. Other historians point out that doesn't stack up,...
OK, so I decided to start a Blog. I have no idea how this is going to go, or indeed if it will go. The basic idea I suppose is to ramble about a series of topics that affect me, so I’m going to try and split the thing in to three streams: Stuff about me and my life. This will mainly be mindless guff about what has happened to me in the past and will probably be of little interest to people who don’t already know me. Observations on the world about me. I can see that this will end up mostly...