Bournemouth Air Festival

What a fantastic show! I was at the Bournemouth Air Festival all day on Friday and half the day on Saturday, and got to see everything from the Typhoon (Eurofighter) and Red Arrows through to a Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster doing the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight!

I personally thought the Sea Vixen was fantastic. Really good looking aircraft - unique and nice and noisy as well!

For more pics, check out my Bournemouth Air Festival album on Picasa.

so, there we have it. lovely barbecue in british rain. (This post was brought to you by a few beers, a barbecue and my Touch Diamond via EDGE from the New Forest :-) )

Tired (and my new mobile!)

Busy day today, lots of driving. Speaking of driving, my new car's at the garage - should be able to pick it up possibly tomorrow, but definitely by Friday.

I've got me a new phone - an HTC Touch Diamond. I've done quite a bit of fiddling around with it so far (and I've only had it 3 days) - I've written a simple C# app after downloading the WM6 Pro SDK, got the g-sensor API which I need to play with, and partially reverse engineered the RIL interface to get access to the radio interface from C#. I'll definitely put more info up about this when I've got something concrete to shout about.

The Reds

Went to Swanage today to see the Red Arrows do their stuff. I must have seen them about 5 times, and they are just so precise every time - it amazes me! Couple of quickly fiddled with shots showing a bit of the display and a couple of Arrows amazingly close together.

Now I must bow to the power of Lady Stella Artois and disappear before I say something silly.

And so it came to pass

Today's my last day driving the Micra to work - she's being part exchanged tomorrow for my shiny new car (a very manly Citroen C1!).

It's moderately emotional, actually - I know it's only a lump of metal, but she's still doing well (except for the wheel bearings), but the MOT runs out on Sunday and I wanted something a bit safer and more economical.

So there you have it. Farewell Dot. You have been my trusty steed for nearly 4 years. RIP.

Blimey, I got there in the end...!

So this is it, then? I'm blogging. I don't feel any different...

Suppose I'd better figure out how to use this thing properly, so I don't think there'll be much in the way of useful content on here for a while (if ever - I'm quite likely to get bored of this).

That'll do for now.