The Gloves Are On

Houston. We have a problem. Somebody doesn't know their left from their right. Might be an issue when navigation points to the second star on the right.

These are official NASA oven gloves, as used on the last Shuttle flight by crew members extracting their baked potatoes from the on board microwave and to shield their eyes on re-entry tomorrow morning.

Only got out today to mow the lawn/clover so only took a few photographs. Processed a few hundred though. Whittled the holiday snaps down to 1807, put together an album in Aperture using a few of them and uploaded this for delivery. All that took absolutely ages, partly due to the crappy internet connection we've got here. It's really starting to piss us all off as we seem to be getting left so far behind other countries. Can't watch more than one stream through iPlayer (none of us could sleep last night and it was a bandwidth fight to catch up with Top Gear/Angry Boys - Top Gear won), it took over an hour to upload the Aperture album with just over 60 photos (may have been longer as that's when I headed out to attack the grass), and the latest update to the Mac OS on the App Store is coming in at 3.5GB which would tie up our 'high-speed' connection for nearly 10 hours. And then there'll be the other multi-megabyte software updates to make everything work alongside Lion to download too. I'll wait for the DVD I think.

All that piss and wind by whatever government it was saying that every household would have a minimum of 2MB seems to have went all quiet and anyhow, the way things are going with software delivery, online media access, HD and 3D films, video games, etc., even 10 times that may not be enough to keep every household happy. According to OFCOM nearly 30% of households where we live receive less than 2Mb and the average is a piddling 5.6Mb.

Going to move to Japan.