The New Zealand Herald reports:“Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “The Color of Money” – followed by a second act as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario – has died. He was 83. Newman died Friday at his farmhouse near Westport following a long battle with cancer, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close [...]

I’ve upgraded to ver 2.6.2 of WordPress tonight… should make no difference to you but some backend changes that help me.

Well I have a copy of this cool bit of kit and am just starting to work out hardware specs for a box I will build to run it on. I’m picking it will be used for more than just it’s fundamental task of acting as a central backup location for all the files on our home network so I’m looking at slightly higher specs than Microsoft’s recommended set-up. One reason is that there seems to be [...]

Found this during some downtime tonight… hope you like the clip. It reminds me of a time when I could do the first two layers by memory but always needed to look at the ‘cheat sheet’ to get the last few moves..