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Last weekend I traveled to Harrogate in Yorkshire to try my hand at flying the Boeing 737-200 airliner. Hidden away in a hangar on the outskirts of the beautiful (and quite historical) town is Real Simulation, a company selling flight simulator experiences in their full-motion 737 and F4 Phantom sims. Upon arrival (arf arf…), I […]
Continue ReadingAmerican Airlines have announced they will change the polished-bare-metal livery their aircraft have sported since the 1930s. There have been several leaked designs and even a purported photo showing a new Boeing 777 painted in dark grey ready to be the first to receive American Airline’s new livery. American Airlines’ Old Livery Being British, and […]
Continue ReadingWhat are you good at? What do you, or your business, do best? Is there something you do better than anybody else? Once you have identified your specialism, turn it into a graph. TL;DR: I predict that graphs will become the standard way of storing and sharing information. And that providing graphs containing useful information such […]
Continue ReadingPop quiz, hotshot, the image shows a common JavaScript ‘gotcha’ – or inadvertent mistake through incomplete knowledge of something. What exactly is happening here? You create a simple function called “getPerson”, and it returns you a JSON object with a single property on it, “name”. However! When you come to use the “name” property, it […]
Continue ReadingMySpace. Remember them? They were ‘Facebook’ back when Nokia ruled the mobile world, Yahoo! was the world’s second most popular search engine, oil was cheap, flying was luxurious and Saddam Hussein had loads of WMDs. Then Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook turned up and stole everyone. Rupert Murdoch bought the ailing MySpace for a smidge under $600m […]
Continue ReadingThe Zombiepocalypse happened on a Tuesday. Everybody assumed it would be a Monday. Even you. Didn’t you?! My alarm clock beeps, as it usually does, at 6:15am. One press of the Snooze button and (9 minutes later) I am vaguely awake. I shower, shave and everything else the modern man does on a morning before […]
Continue ReadingWhile the world was watching the Great North Run 2012 runners begin their harrowing half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields, those of us with more of an interest in aviation than athletics (despite trying to change that) were watching something else: the skies.
Continue ReadingGhosts of York, a brand new book by ghost-hunter extraordinaire, Rob Kirkup, chronicles the travels of 5 friends as they visit 10 of York’s most haunted locations. Disclosure: Yes, I was one of the 5. And yes, I wrote the foreword. But despite these two facts, I can unbiasedly confirm that this is a fantastic […]
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