While searching around for Cray-related imagery I stumbled across Lawrence-Livermore National Laborotory’s Flickr stream. There’s some fantastic shots in here of all kinds of exotic machinery and science-related shenanigans, but of particular interest to a nerd like myself is the Supercomputing set.

It’s a great collection of photographic history dating back to 1952, and includes more recent installations such as their “Tri-Lab Linux Capacity Clusters”, BlueGene/L, and most things in between. Check out the full set in the link above, it’s fascinating stuff.

Basically it was because I wanted to be like the dude below, working with technology that looked as fantastic as this:

Where did it all go so wrong?

Between 1987 and 2003, Fugazi played over 1000 concerts in all 50 states and all over the world. Over 800 of these shows were recorded by the band’s sound engineers.

You should already be well aware of this given that it reached the New York Times frontpage, but as this has been a long time coming (in various forms) - I figured I’d mention it here as well.  The NYT article points out another interesting aspect:

[…] the project also tells a story about musical technology from the 1980s into the 2000s. The earliest recordings were made on cassettes, then came digital DAT tapes, then CD-R’s and a few hard drives.

Go give them some of your money.

Countless times I’ve looked on Knockhill’s website and wondered (often out loud) about driving the short distance from Edinburgh to check out some of the events there.  And so finally, me and my Dad made the trip up there (a whole 25 minutes!) to watch the second day of arguably the biggest weekend on the calendar - the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.

The day included support from the Porsche Carrera Cup as well as SMRC and the Ginetta GT series.  Our luck was in with the weather as the sun shined all day long - we’ve somehow managed to come home with sunburn.  Not what you expect early September in Scotland!

Me and the missus just spent a fantastic 10 days sunning it up on the cheap in Malta.  I came away qualified as a Scuba Diver, and as if that wasn’t productive enough, I even took some photos!  

Favourite thing to shoot was definitely the random selection of cars we came across, although it’s a shame I didn’t decide to start collecting them a little bit sooner.  Still grabbed a few decent ones though - check them out on Flickr.