Retrocomputing

Spent the morning haunting the decayed gothic ruins of JES trying to diagnose a JCL error and the afternoon wandering the dusty plains of assembly land. It was like I'd been transported back in time to the days of the Thatcher–Reagan love-in or something.

Perfect planetary programming

The Beeb seem to be putting the passion back into to planetary travel, with BBC7 featuring a dramatisation of the Mars project that never was in Voyage and Radio 4 forecasting the future of lunar exploration in Fly Me to the Moon. All that is needed to achieve total perfection is an adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, complete with a cast of thousands...