Posts by Umpty Numpty

Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

Re: How do you pronounce spadeadm?

spuh-day-dum?

There was some work done on Blue Streak / Blue Steel at Woodford (Hawker Siddley / Avro / British Aerospace / BAESYSTEMS) - remnants of which were still evident when I started work in 1986. Not found any online records of this other than a mention via Google Books: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NAOhDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA141&ots=herWG_6bVU&dq=blue%20streak%20at%20woodford&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q=blue%20streak%20at%20woodford&f=false

10 PRINT "ZX81 at 37" 20 GOTO 10

Space Invaders

May only be 1024 characters, but it took a bit of typing in in Assy

BT tweaks WORDING of sex-ed web block after complaints

The mind boggles....

It used to be called the World Wide Web. At what age would you allow your kids to wander around the world unaccompanied? FFS have some common sense and don't trust a numpty ISP, MP or piece of software to be a substitute for adequate supervision.