http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes RT : Technology Bytes en RT /About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-8-17.html http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-8-17.html Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:46:36 +0300 Hello there,I was intending to make this weeks's blog a typically irreverant look ahead to the big MAKS airshow which takes place in the Moscow Region this week. But the events over the weekend make me loath to be too flippant. Two Su-27 display team fighters crashed in mid-air, leaving one pilot dead and, at the time of writing, several residents of a local village seriously injured. It was a tragic accident and my thoughts and best wishes go out to all those who have been affected.Read moreThe air show itself gets underway Tuesday, with a presidential visit and it promises to be a fine spectacle. /About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-8-10.html http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-8-10.html Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:45:34 +0300 Hello again,Now this month on Technology Update you will witness something I, for one, never thought I would see on TV. To give you an idea of just what an unlikely programme this is, let me give you a brief list of things the ordinary rational man would have found infinitely more credible. "Peter Oliver's Sport's Roundup Striptease" for example would have been much more plausible. "Alice Hibbert's Secret's of Cage Fighting" stood a much greater chance of landing fait accompli on your goggle box, and even "Bill Dod's Unwarranted Expletive Outburst" looked to most punters a sounder investment. /About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-7-22.html http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-7-22.html Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:55:17 +0300 Well, what can I say... the last time I wrote to you I promised you that I wouldn’t leave it so long next time, and I did. I hope we’re not developing one of those unhealthy relationships that begin with the cosy intimacy of a new romance and end with one of us being sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act. That would be really bad. A new low – even for my chequered history.So as you sit blinking back tears beside the spoilt meal I have missed in our metaphorical relationship I will trot out the customary excuse. /About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-5-5.html http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-5-5.html Tue, 05 May 2009 18:39:00 +0300 Hello again,First, let me make an apology for my prolonged absence. I have had a bit of a strange run of misfortune that has left my mind elsewhere. If you saw the surgery, you know that I had to cure my horrendous snoring in our laser program a few weeks ago. But what you probably didn't gather was that due to a slight human error, I ended up bleeding quite profusely from a pair of singed nostrils.Nothing to do with the technology I might add, tools are all very well and good, but even the best can fall afoul of a little human fallibility. /About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-3-17.html http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-3-17.html Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:58:00 +0300 In the laziness and torpor of a damp and dreary Sunday afternoon, I decided to brighten things up with a bit of Bond. James Bond. (Sorry, I couldn't resist the obvious joke).As Auric Goldfinger smirked down over our temporarily incapacitated hero, there followed one of my all-time favourite cinematic exchanges:“Do you expect me to talk?”“No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!”They don't write 'em like that any more! And with that, the arch super-villian bumbled off as a big laser prepared to seperate 007 from the one part of his body that sees more action than his trigger finger. /About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-3-10.html http://www.russiatoday.com/About_Us/Blogs/Technology_Bytes/2009-3-10.html Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:02:32 +0300 Now, unless you are a first time reader of this blog, you probably know I am a big fan of scientists and tech boffins… but every now and again the human soul suffers a dispiriting blow.It is sad to report that some of these generally innocuous and pleasant people are just taking the Mickey. They are having a laugh – and at our expense. I gawped when I read this week that a couple of years ago two scientists at the American Institute of Chemical Engineering published a detailed research paper titled “Will Humans swim faster or slower in syrup?” Who needs to know this? Who allowed these men to waste their time and intelligence on a theoretical debate over whether Michael Phelps would be better off doing laps in treacle or in chlorinated water? They should be pelted with rotten fruit until they see the error of their ways.