June 30th: Today in 1908 a huge fireball was observed in Siberia, a few minutes later a huge shockwave was felt up to 400 miles away as a huge explosion flattened trees in a 50km blast circle in what came to be known as the Tunguska Event. The impact caused the night sky to light [...]
June 29th: Today in 1767 the Townsend Acts were passed. This was a broad tax placed on English colonists living in North America and was incredibly unpopular. In 1770 the acts were repealed, except for the tax on tea, which lead to the Boston Tea Party.
If you have ever said I wish I had known Microsoft would be worth a fortune in 1983 then this is for you. The Onion has up their June 6th 2056 edition. Read it and know where to put that spare cash you have laying around.
June 28th: Today in 1914 the Arch Duke Ferdinand was murdered triggering the series of events which led to World War I.
Headed back to normal. I have the disk functioning and have recovered most of the missing photos and music. I am now comparing the current directories to what I have on the back ups to be safe before I start writing to the disk again. Once I am sure I am ok, I will restore [...]
My home PC has lost another drive, the new one I bought to replace the old one that died. It appears to have lost its formatting, but it is still there as a mapped drive. Until I manage a resolution posting here will be light to non-existant as I don’t post at work. I do [...]
Apparently modern day ‘druids’ and other new agers are celebrating the wrong solstice at Stone Henge. Given an ‘ancient tradition’ that dates back a hundred years or so this is hardly suprising.
June 21rst: Today in 1964 three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Sadly this happened to people who were trying to register other american citizens to vote in my lifetime. The trial of one of the suspects is [...]
I am not a Dave Matthews fan, but many people are and I am sure the band is quite talented and deserves to be paid for the music it sells. I am also sure the producer and engineers and all the rest deserve their cut. Likewise I don’t deny the record company their share, but [...]
June 20th: Today in 1756 a group of 64 to 69 prisoners were stuffed into a tiny cell and left there overnight. By morning an estimated 43 had died from the heat or suffacation in what came to be known as the Black Hole of Calcutta. This incident inflamed English public opinion against the native [...]