Made some further progress. Then the cloud rolled in again. more »

This was taken through my TAL 2M 150mm reflector with a Toucam Pro II webcam at prime focus, the resulting image was stacked and processed from 5 frames. It's just a shame the barlow lens I've got is too long for the webcam to be in focus, so I'll hav… more »

Adam's scary thing, thought this was cool. more »

The European Space Agency is making a very big announcement tomorrow at 16:00 UTC. Nobody knows quite exactly what, other than it's at least related to an extra-solar planet. But the rumour mill is in over drive - an Earth-like planet? Who knows for s… more »

Well since Wester seems to be in a bit of a Lord of the Ring soundtrack mood at the moment, I thought I'd talk a bit about one of my now all-time favourite soundtracks - Kameo Elements of Power, yes it's an Xbox 360 game and it probably has one of the be… more »

New Horizons finally got the all clear to launch at 18:52, resumed the countdown at 18:56 and launched at 19:00 on an Atlas V rocket. It's on it's way to Jupiter and then on to Pluto where it should arrive on the 14th of July, 2015. more »

Catherine wanted me to help redo Catmoo.co.uk, she's been messing around with it for about a month, so I thought it was time to go hardcore on a redesign, not a bad result for a couple of hours work. In fact I may have to steal it for some of my sites.… more »

Got a few things to touch on this entry. Microsoft recently announced that it would release no further versions of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X, instead it would enable Flip4Mac to release their plug-in for Quicktime for free with Windows Media s… more »

I say this loads and loads, in fact it's so good I find it really hard to even describe it on here, hence why the Tablet review never materialised, it's just so good, so good I can't even describe it, it's just so different and so natural. Yet a lot of… more »

This was e-mailed to me and I don't know the original author, I just made some changes and threw it up on my blog. The ladies know geeks rock, here's why for all those who haven't worked it out yet. Geeks are useful, they can fix your desktop, l… more »