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Let’s make it a criminal offence to report, or pass on to others for reporting, the location of any member of the UK armed forces whilst on active service. That’d sort out a recent news story and help give a 23 year old bloke that chance to do what he wants.

Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden is being sanctioned by the Australian Cricket Board for calling India’s Harbhajan Singh an obnoxious little weed in a radio interview. He also said he would like to meet the Indian pace bowler Ishant Sharma in the boxing ring 🙂

I think this is class. It’s all part of the civilised war that is cricket. Underneath that nice facade it’s vicious. As it should be. I hope Hayden doesn’t get a ban. He’s a marvellous cricketer who is passionate about the game, as are Singh and Sharma. Just let them get on with it!

I was watching the weather on BBC yesterday and it struck me that the one thing that I learned in secondary school (K12 for Americans) that I have used the most over the intervening 29 years is the ability to read pressure charts. I’ve probably used this weekly (at least) since learning it in geography class aged 15. Along with the names of the chemical elements, reading weather charts is the only thing that I still use. And I only use the former for naming servers and volumes!

Cool city. The original series of Star Trek is being cleaned up, and some modern ship CGI added, for a new syndication to TV channels. They are using the original prints from the cameras and converting to digital HD. The CGI will be for shots of the Enterprise orbiting planets etc. They are also recording a new digital version of the theme music. Looking forward to seeing the new versions. Star Trek TOS is excellent. Hopefully we’ll get a Blu-ray release in the future. More details and videos over at the Star Trek site. Pictures below of the new CGI Enterprise.