Farnborough Airshow photos

I'm currently going through over 250 photos taken at the Farnborough Airshow today. It was a good day, with plenty to see inside and out. Perhaps even too much - I was often torn between seeing the air display and the stands inside. There wasn't much dealing going on - that all went on last week. The weekend is for the public, so most of the stands have a skeleton staff, mainly handing out freebies rather than taking orders for millions of pounds worth of aircraft.

Look out for the airshow pics on my personal photo gallery.

Here's an interesting news story about a B52 which, scheduled to appear at Farnborough one day last week actually missed the airfield completely and ended up going around another airfield a few miles away. Makes you wonder how they manage with precision-bombing sorties thousands of miles from home!

Going Live!

This message is a bit overdue, but yes, the new website is now live! There's still a fair amount of work to be done, and old pages are being left in their original locations too to cater for existing links to the site. The content is largely in place, however, so it's onwards and upwards from this point on.

Getting there now...

Most of the sections of the new site are in some form of order now, and although not all of the content is complete, I'm looking at putting the site live in the not too distant future and working on it as I go, so at least some current content will be available. I'm aware that what's on the site at the moment hasn't been updated in a while.

The main areas that will be updated after going live will be the images in the Travel section and content in the World Media section.

New website - latest news

I've been working on getting the design of the website to my liking in the past couple of weeks and have been tweaking some display issues along the way. Although the site is designed for 800x600 resolutions and above, it should also resize okay in smaller windows.

I've changed the look of the navigation so that it looks clearer and better then before.

The main challenge now is to prepare the rest of the content for the new site. I haven't touched the World Media section in a while now, and I need to be making progress on it.

World Media

Having completed the Travel section aside from images and photographs, the next priority is the World Media section. I'm going to modify this section to reflect how my own listening to international broadcasters has altered recently. This will give focus on broadband internet content, which I'm currently exploring, but will continue to feature shortwave information and developments with Digital Radio Mondiale.

New site design update

Due to the number of pages this site has and the amount of time I've spent updating the site in the past, I've made the decision to use frames in the new site design. Although I'm quite aware that many in the web design community aren't keen on the use of frames, until such time that I'm able to create a database driven site, frames will allow me to ensure the whole site is kept current as efficiently as possible.

So far I've been testing the site in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox with good results. I'll be trying out Opera as well soon, so most of the major browsers should display the site as it is intended.

Website work in progress: Travel

So far the travel section of the website has been updated for the new site. Note, however, that the new site will only go live when all of the pages of the site have been updated. Going through the travel section provided a good opportunity to streamline the content, and to rewrite and update the pages. The new travel pages are currently without images, but I'll look at better integrating these into the text in due course.

Site updates

I'm currently working on revamping the site. Things are busy with other things too, so it'll probably be a few weeks before it goes live. Updates will be posted here as work progresses....

Broadening the scope

I've not put much in this blog for a while. I've been meaning to pay tribute to Cooke and Ustinov, but things have been busy of late to say the least.

For a bit of added motivation I'm going to add general technology topics to this blog, to spur me on to add more frequent entries.

Broadcasting House

BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme today came from New York, and was duly greeted by the cries of listeners who are apparantly fed-up of specials always coming from the US and featuring something trivial. I can sympathise, and it makes me wonder if the media has the same fixation with the US as the poxy Blair government.

In any case, this morning's BH did include an interesting feature (dumbed down or not) on 'Air America Radio', a new liberal network of stations to take to the airwaves in the currently Republican dominated Mediumwave band. Clearly timed to influence the Presidential Election this autumn, the network is aiming to be an antedote to the extreme-right voices such as Rush Limbaugh.