Walking in a technology wonderland

One of the advantages of living near a race track is that sometimes you get to attend some interesting events. So it was yesterday when I went to see a new brand new Motorsport go through it's initial testing before hitting the world stage. Formula E   is a new FIA single-seater championship. The unique selling point however is that this is the first championship where the cars will be totally electric powered. When it was announced that they would be holding free test days at my local circuit, Donington Park,  I thought I would go and have a look and see what all the fuss is about. The first thing that hits you as you enter the park is the amount of money spent on new Formula E facilities. Donington has been chosen as the official headquarters for the teams and in a relatively short period, new buildings have sprung up to house not only administration buildings, but also sites for the formula E teams. After the debacle of Donington parks attempt to host F1 , ...

Recently I had a phone call from someone I knew. After a few pleasantries they hit me with a bombshell. They accused me of stealing work that was to form part of a new book. Basically I was being accused of being a copyright thief! Now I'm a guy who prides himself on being a pretty moral person, with a good idea of right and wrong, so this took me back a bit and it took a while to work out what had happened. A few months ago I became interested in finding out some more information on a memorial for German P.O.W's in the local cemetery. I asked a friend, who put me in contact with someone in the local museum. They sent me a single page word document which contained the name of the soldiers plus a small paragraph on the causes of their death. I decided it would be a good project to test if I could use social media tools such as blogging to gather any more information on the persons involved (Getting information on German 1st world war soldiers is especially difficult b...