At Chez Nerd, we have just subscribed to the new BigPond Movies “4 DVDs for $9.95 a month” plan. Our local video hire shop charges $7.60 for any new or recent release, so the BigPond deal seems pretty good to a penny-pinching Nerd.

Our first DVD on the plan was The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

For many people, Christian or not, the last book of the Bible—Revelation—contains so much strange content that it appears to be totally incomprehensible. But if you’re prepared to think about about the context of Revelation and the type of literature (apocalyptic) that it is, then everything starts to fall into place.

The Flying Nerd site boasts a bold new header today. It’s a little bit slower to load, but I think it’s worth the wait. And in any case, you are on broadband, aren’t you?

Your friendly Flying Nerd is now (more-or-less) back on deck after a week of unpleasantness in the throat (hoarse as a horse and barking like a dog).

As ever, the Flying Nerd welcomes your comments and fedback on anything you read here.

The Flying Nerd site now supports Gravatars (Globally Recognised Avatars) which will be associated with your comments.

Do you have one?

Not much to rant about here.

Last night’s race results reflected the practice and qualifying form, save for those who suffered misfortunes.

At my age (please try to contain those giggles), you’re not supposed to start liking new styles of music. All around the world, radio programmers put enormous effort into finding just the right mix of classic hits music to attract people like me (and the advertisers that target us).

So why do I find myself listening [...]

I use and recommend Ulead video editing software.

For low-end, quick-and-dirty jobs, VideoStudio 9 is just what you want. It’s pretty stable, has a good set of features, reasonable flexibility and a moderatley flexible DVD burning engine.

For high-end (non-professional) editing, it’s hard (for the price) to go past MediaStudio Pro 7. (But note that MSP8 is [...]

For a few days now, my throat has been bugging me. My voice comes and goes at inopportune moments.

I had an important meeting this afternoon—voice was acceptable (not good). But now I feel whacked. Got to get rid of this thing.

The Flying Nerd web site took off on 20 July 2005.

The F1 posts are dated earlier, but have never previously been posted on the web—they come from a series of emails I shared with like minded friends (known in the F1 world as ‘anoraks’).

Enjoy, and join in.

(Actually more of a meander than a rant)

Well, well, well.

What a stunning drive by Fernando Alonso. The guy is a metronome.

Great performance also by Kimi Raikkonen. 13th to 2nd is a tremendous result. And running third fastest in qualifying with SOOO much fuel on board was impressive. Maybe he could have challenged Fernando if not [...]