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Archive for September, 2008

Conspiracy theories

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

I’ve always been fairly into conspiracy theories, and this stuff takes the biscuit, this should be mandatory viewing for life.

I don’t know it’s all well researched facts, I know some of it’s true, and it has only one tiny fact I know to be wrong (so tiny I’ve forgotten what it was), and I put that down to over simplification.

Yes, It’s a little long, but after the first 10 mins, it’s all good stuff.

New job … and Station X

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

I have gotten a temp job doing exactly what I was doing 2 years ago, for disability services — sitting in a dungeon at uni installing software onto computers, it should last a couple of weeks, and will be reasonably fun in the process.

This last weekend I went to London to visit my good friend Heliomass (and a few others in the process) many interesting things were seen including Kew Gardens (all 300 acres there of) and the main point of the trip: Station X.

Station X, AKA Bletchly park is an extremely interesting place, known for it’s WW2 code breaking efforts. It held some of the foremost mathematical geniuses of it’s time, and was so significant it housed some operations only declassified in 2002. Many believe the efforts there turned the war, or at the least shortened it by up to 18 months.

It was the birth (and death) place of Colossus, the worlds first electronic programable computer, which was (depending on who you ask) either 1 or 4 decades or more ahead of it’s time, and has been rebuilt from photos over the last 15 years, I have seen it running in full working order.

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