1,000th Blog Post

1,000 ... yes, 1,000th blog post.

Wow.

Well, for the past couple of years I've been wanting to hit this mark at the end of the year (like as a New Years Eve post), but in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014, I had failed. Now it's the 1st of May, I can't exactly keep the site quiet for another 7 months, so today will have to do.

As it's my 1,000th post, I suppose I should do that whole "let's take a trip down memory lane" thing... so, here we go...

Way back in September 2005 - on the... [read more]

Project: UK METAR Weather Overview

If you're someone who knows me well enough, you'd know I have an interest with the weather (and to some extent other natural disasters too), so yesterday I got bored and usually when I get bored random ideas pop into my head, and one did so, of which I think would be of use to a majority of the online UK WX scene. Ok, so maybe not so at this time of year, but definitely during the year it may be quite handy.

The main reason this idea popped into my head, was because earlier this year when various storms were... [read more]

The Fake Burton Tornado

On Tuesday (21st October 2014) a handful of news websites started running stories along with this image, saying it was a picture taken by Adam Wright of a tornado in Burton.

According to one article on the Burton Mail website, Adam had mentioned "Me and my mate Rich Walton were driving from my house in Stretton to B&Q at about 7:30am", so this happened fairly early in the morning.

Upon first looking at the picture you can clearly see a nice looking tornado and that the picture can clearly... [read more]

After UK Police Shutdowns, Hello TOR

My previous post explained about the UK Police's latest crackdown on torrent sites and along with that, they also shut down Immunicity (which was just a normal free censorship tool). So with Immunicity no longer working and also shitloads of proxy websites going offline every week, what's the next best option?

TOR. That's what. TOR stands for The Onion Router - and like a router does, it directs traffic in different ways... with this it directs internet traffic through a volunteer network allowing you to totally avoid any "This page is... [read more]

UK Storms: Day 2 Pictures

Well after a bout of storms last night, more are on their way. So I've decided to grab a collection of pictures that have been posted on social media in regards to this evenings storms - which have arrived an hour or two ago on the South-East side of the United Kingdom.

Please note that this post will keep updating during the evening, so keep checking back (newer images will appear at the bottom)

Hastings

Source: @Littelle

Folkestone

Source: @GaryHawkins82

South London

Source: @timeasley

Essex(?)

Source: @DarrylC91

Sussex
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