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The end.....

This'll be the last post in this weblog. For the last 2 years, I've used Ramblings as a test bed for some ideas, as a space to vent frustrations, and as a place to share goodies I've stumbled upon on my travels around the web.

Its now time to close these personal musings and move the concept to the mainstream site.

Ramblings will be replaced by a new addition to the MACLA web site stable, Metheringahm Area News which will be used to post all new material, links to interesting finds, trivia and anything else that peopel want to see.

If time permits, or on a slow news week, I'll migrate some of the better stuff from Ramblings to the main site.

So thanks for the ride.....

Downhill sledding

Minutes of endless fun....

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

Can't quite get it to loop yet...still working on it.

A sad, sad day

Yesterday, we lost some friends.
I am totally numb as I sit typing here with tears streaming down my face.
Our thoughts are with those they left behind.

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them, we will remember them."

Goggles

Chocks Away!. Using Google Maps as a backdrop, Goggles should occupy you for all of ummm...... 23 seconds.

The Red Planet

To complement Google Maps and Google Moon, there is also Google Mars.

Paris by night

One of the best panoramic images I've seen this year.

What's in a Surname

This nifty little site lets you enter your surname and see where in the country it's most popular. It'll also let you check how popular it as in 1881. There's loads of other details as well. Interesting.

News Article Comments

The news article comments have been turned off due to a spam attack that has swamped the articles with irrelevant comment posts. The news articles are still available.

A longer term solution is being sought.

Shoelace Knots

The web is a wonderful place..... including many things I never knew I needed to know.

Try this site: Ian's Shoelace Site. Fascinating!

A-maze-ing

Millions of the things.....

Ramblings Update

I've been a bit busy these past few months with a work related project hence the lack of posting. A good friend reminded me recently that I've been neglecting this blog. He's right of course and its not only the blog that's been neglected, but other sites I'm supposed to look after as well. I can't promise that things will improve over the next few months but, by mid-summer, you should start to see normal service resumed.

Meanwhile, here's a fascinating site about facial muscles. Have a play!

Cruiser Scout

I found this very moving. Simply told, this is the story of one man's time in the US Navy during WW2.

Spam, Spam, Spam........

For a the last week , we have been having emails bounced from a friend who we've known for years.. They were receiving emails from others, but not ours.

Time to dig out the deerstalker and meerschaum.......

It transpires that an intermediate company has decide that all emails from our ISP sent to the email servers of our friend's ISP are 'spam' even though we both know that they are not. Neither of the ISPs will accept responsibility and refuse to do anything to resolve the situation.

So if you are with Wanadoo, I'm afraid you can't email any NTLworld addresses. If you're with NTLworld, you can still send to people with Wanadoo, you just won't get any reply.

Spam emails are a serious problem, I get hundreds every day but this heavy handed approach by a mainstream ISP, NTLworld, is not justified. Let's hope the problem resolves itself sooner rather than later.

Time to roll out the web based email addresses that I keep for travelling: hotmail, gmail or yahoo ...

The chances of....

...anything coming from Mars are a million to one;but, still, they come.