TonyM

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• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  I find Dropbox very useful for sharing photos with people. I can simply send them a link to a folder containing what I want to send them. It is also useful for sharing files between different devices such as my...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  "SciFi featured CAPABLE women long before other genres of fiction" Probably little known outside the UK, but the Dan Dare comic strip from the Eagle features a Very capable woman in the person of Professor Jocelyn Peabody. This comic strip...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  I'm a long time lurker (and occasional) poster, here, and have long agreed with you about this subject. I was a child in the 1950's living in what then was a small rural village in mid West Sussex. Everybody knew...
• Commented on WTF
  Regarding Wallabies in the UK, I'm a native of West Sussex and I can remember seeing them back in the 1960's and 70's in the area north of the South Downs around the Steyning, Ashington, Washington area. Not seen any...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  Greg @ 93; "Twitter: "Sumfink as gorn 'orribly worng" at Twatter. On the Beeb this morning - an amateur astronomer has been banned for pornographic content - a photo of the Perseid meteor shower - AND - an amateur/professional ornithologist...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  I have never found Boris to be as coherent as the Seagull usually was. Maybe that's just me lol....
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/shocking-beachy-head-picture-shows-5216127 second try with link, hope it works this time!...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  People being stupid near dangerous cliff edges is a very common news story in my locality. See this from a few weeks ago; tps://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/shocking-beachy-head-picture-shows-5216127 Several people die here every year. Last year a young female student who was trying to...
• Commented on Bad news day
  Big fan of Iain (M) Banks here. I have to say that Use of Weapons is one of my favorites, along with The Bridge, but I can understand why people might not like them. I think my recommendation to someone...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  This is already answered, but just to add my little bit, The coupling and de coupling of occupied passenger trains is a routine event in my part of south east England. My local service to/from London has carriages added/removed at...
• Commented on A death in the Firm
  "Someone I knew was a farmer in Lincoln and they had a bomber airfield not far from their home. Every now and then in the 1960s the RAF would hold an unannounced QR flight, four Vulcans taking off in a...
• Commented on Official Announcement: April Fools Day is Cancelled
  For the vulnerability of Carriers to Submarines, this from Wikipedia; In 2004, the Swedish government received a request from the United States to lease HSwMS Gotland – Swedish-flagged, commanded and manned, for a duration of one year for use in...
• Commented on Lying to the ghost in the machine
  Re Charlie at 209; https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48212/the-rolling-english-road...
• Commented on Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy
  Re, Steampunk Inertial Navigation. I'm no expert, but I suspect a practical worthwhile Inertial Navigation system would not be possible before the 20th century. In the 1970's I worked for a precision engineering company that among other things made the...
• Commented on Roll the dice
  Usually true, but have a look at this. Not on the ground and the Pigeon was definitely being very silly, but not really in the air either. https://youtu.be/rFA-f4Fh3tA...
• Commented on Introducing Dead Lies Dreaming
  Hello everybody. This is my second ever post on OGH's blog, but I would like to put in my bit on the Linux discussion. To declare my interest up front, I am a Linux user and have been for a...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
  Long time lurker, first time poster here. Regarding the question of older people signing the petition, for the record I am [nearly] 70 and have signed it. Have good internet access and I think reasonable computer skills [Linux user] I...