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Electronics

The part loss of our electronics industry

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During the 80’s and early 90’s there was a lot of inventive people playing around with a new found love in electronics. They would take peices apart to study how they worked. Then with an old broken radio they would see what went wrong and attempt to repair it. Or fail because one vital part accidentally broke.

At this period in our history stores sprang up with the answer to many people’s questions. The likes of Tandy and RadioShack would supply you with the resistors, microchips that you needed. 

These stores have since disappeared from the high street. RadioShack moved to the Internet, Tandy eventually disappeared, I think it got swallowed up by Dixons-Currys group. Now just known as Currys.

So the small trade in computer components went online. There was a small part of this large industry where a small circuit board would be recycled into its parts. 

  
People would unsolder its parts and sell them online to other enthusiasts to use in a project. Or simply sell the whole board. 

But now after just a few browses of eBay, it’s clear to me this part of recycling is on its way out.

Parts are cheap to buy new in bulk. There are better, smarter chips brought online and now people are just interested in extracting the gold and other materiel to make a profit.

And the invention on the computer game might be one point to ask. Did you prefer taking that radio apart or prefer playing Super Mario!?

A once interesting industry diluted and an education of how things work gone. More modern technology prevails. We are still forever inventive in our ways. But the simple peices of electronic equipment seems no more.

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Why haven’t the Canadian Geese migrated?

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For as long as I remember they have always migrated from the lake where I walk my dog. So why is this year different? Could it be a factor of climate change? Or is it mild enough around here they prefer to stay over winter. I am at a loss and wonder if anyone else has any suggestions.

Current Events

Paris; France, it’s time to fight back

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What has happened in Paris has shocked me. I have been to the city a few times, I have always had strong feelings there so hearing the news this morning has shocked me and made me feel very angry.

Why didn’t the French authorities see this coming, since the Charlie Hebro attacks I would of thought that they would of improved their Intelligence network. 

But Paris has become a blood bath once again. Now Hollande has said this is an act of war from IS. So what happened to the war we are already waging against IS? 

The facts are the facts and what I see is just pure terror in the form of a generation bent and twisted by a world crippled by corrupt ideology.

It’s not helping that so many refugees are put into camps around France where the fuel of discontent burns. It’s time to help France on all levels the divides need to be broken down and a more unified France needs to stand up. 

This war truely started when the twin towers fell in New York, but when will it end?

Personal

Rememberance Sunday: Robert Remembered

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Mr Graham

My Dear Bob,

May you be remember, for the stories you told and didn’t tell.

He signed up to the Territorial Army branch at the opening of WW2 and served in the South Lancs Regiment as a gunnery. He told me how he served in North Africa, but what I found out at his funeral a few years ago he was at Normandy Landing he got off the boat with his best friend, ran up turned around to his friend only too see him get a bullet through his head. I found that very shocking when I heard the story.

Another story that stood out, before the war broke out he was in training and went out one evening to the pub with some friends, where they got rather drunk and on the way back one of his friends spotted a snake on the side of the road not knowing it was an adder and threw it at Bob, he got bitten that day by the snake, his arm started to swell up and he got back to the base. Reported in to the medic; He was treated and the report said because of the amount of alcohol in his system it saved his life. It also stated at the time that he was the only solider to ever have a snake bite in Britain in the army.

Robert was a great man, always had a smile, never had a bad word to say about anyone and I shall remember him always.

TV

BBCs The Last Kingdom (shields!?)

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I just finished watching episode three. Although not a bad show and some very good story telling. Some of the technology is wrong. My main focus is the Saxon shields, a square shield? And plain? 

This is very wrong, Saxon shields are round and they painted with a standard crest, they would of used a red and white round shield for Wessex. And why are they saying they wouldn’t know a shield wall? This is incorrect during the time period they would of known Roman battle technics and probably could perform a successful shield wall. 

The costomes annoy me also, the elite wealthy Vikings and Saxons would of had more intricate dress and armour.

  
  

Film

James Bond Spectre review

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The first twenty minutes seemed a repeated of the trailer and a lot of the time during the film, I was kinda bored! I understood the very basic storyline, there was very little twist or turn. It all felt rushed, characters were very short and you could say. What, When, How, Who?

They made a big thing about the new Aston Martian DB10 which did look very cool, there was an Omega watch thrown in there, but again no new exciting gadgets.

There was a few laughs and in parts enjoyable, but again I felt, been there done that. At one point in the film, there seemed to be (Haven’t we been here before?) a copy from “On Her Majesty Secret Service” when they were up in the Alps. The facility with the ski lifts seemed all too familiar.

One of those big American wrestlers thrown in and a big cabal of bad guys, hmm, typical. Bond being the dominant male having his way with every woman he meets, can’t he be rejected instead of having a girl who looks half his age! In the end, nothing new, nothing to gain and I certainly don’t think I was truly entertained.