Pictures of Darkness

Darkness falls on the land. A shrouded moon glows behind racing clouds, wind blowing it's winter tune. Bare trees backlit by the weak moon, branches like old dry bones. Simon ☺

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas eveyone! Peace and love to all! Simon 🙂

Cassini Completes Final Close Enceladus Flyby

Following on from my post the other day https://sfarnell.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/cassinis-close-encouter-with-enceladus/ I hought something on the flyby would be need to to complete this story. The feature image I used shows a world covered in cracks in it's icy surface  and craters poc marking the surface. This world has surprised many with it geological activity and no …

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Over the Festive Period

This is just a note to all my bloggie friends that from today over the next week or so I'm not likely to be contactable. So have a great Christmas, thank you all so much for making this year, the best blog year ever and I know that you will make it even better next …

Newborn Stars Shooting Lightsabers

Being really excited about all things space I'm naturally excited about newborn stars that shoot jets of light into space like lighsabres... http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/hubble-sees-the-force-awakening-in-a-newborn-star Simon 🙂

The Dirty T-Shirt

So it happened. Always does at some point during the winter, beacuse it's dark in the morning and you have little clue about what you put on. I got to work thinking I was relatively presentable. Until I looked down... My T-Shirt looked like I had eaten last nights dinner off of it. What does …

The Jedi Duel #Blogbattle #Scifi

Here's the latest blog battle for you - I hope you enjoy it. It's very much been inspired by the film - although there are no spoilers in this as it's just inspired by the film. Simon 🙂

New findings on Pluto – with more to come

I'm staggered - apparently will still have less than half the data from the New Horizons flyby of Pluto earlier this year... they're making great dicoveries, but there's more to come. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-findings-from-nasa-s-new-horizons-shape-understanding-of-pluto-and-its-moons Simon 🙂

Star Wars – The start of the future (no spoilers)

Everone else who has been to see the film is doing this, so I thought I would too: What a film it was. I don't know what others have been saying but I've heard that some have slated the new Star Wars saying it's worse than the prequeals. All I will say to this is …

Funny – Technology Babble

This is what you need to remember about techno babble.. Credit: http://dilbert.com/ Simon 🙂

Funny – How hard can it be?

Do I really need to say anything about this? I mean Arabic is spelled wrong in one of them anyway... Simon 🙂

The Real Neat Blog Award

I had a pleasant surprise when I saw a post from Shannon, I hadn't seen her about for ages. Then another surpise when her Real Neat Blog award had me nominated at the bottom. I like surprises like that... Thank you Shannon. It's good to see you about again and thanks for nominating me - …