The Flying Nerd has 100 Gmail invitations to give away. Would you like a Gmail account (webmail with 2.5GB storage)? If so, and I know you, send mail to me and I’ll arrange for you to receive an invitation.

This week, I had the great privilege to fly the Southern Cross Gliding Club’s brand new DG-303 single seat glider.

The news is out—check any F1 web site for the official press release—WilliamsF1 is using Cosworth V8 engines in 2006.

Once we got past the first lap dramas (both RBR cars out, one of them having completed a barrel roll), the race was a pretty ho-hum affair—as is usually the case on the Hungarian go-kart track.

From time to time, I like to buy bits and pieces for my home computer. Hard disc here. Stick of RAM there. You know how it goes.

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Hope you think this helps. I do.

Friends and fans of One Eyed Jim, Macquarie Anglican Churches’ resident pirate, will be pleased to know about Talk Like A Pirate Day – September 19.

By the way, do you know why he’s called One Eyed Jim?

Back in 1999, your correspondent with nerd-ish tendencies had the opportunity to meet and spend a day with Formula 1 driver Jenson Button. This photo proves it:

Of course, neither of us really looks much like that any more…

But I stray.

Buttongate (the saga about Formula 1 driver Jenson Button’s contracts) is on again.

Regular readers of the this site’s caustic Formula 1 commentary will know that the Flying Nerd does not think highly of Ferrari’s arrogant practices, especially regarding testing.