Planet Earth

Acquired the 5 DVD box. Saw it presented in a shop on a Panasonic 150 inch (!!) plasma TV (80.000 Euro...). On our modest TV at home it is still visually gobsmacking, although admittedly, the storyline is not really educating. Generates lots of discussion in the household nevertheless!

Born on a blue day

Reading this at the moment: Daniel Tammet's Born on a Blue Day, fascinating, somebody who can actually tell about how he thinks and, indeed what extraordinary ways to reason he has.

Away for the week, again

• Mon March 10: Deventer-Schiphol-Newcastle-Cleator (434.7 miles, as the crow flies, so add another 100+ miles for the distance actually travelled)
• Tue/Fri: Cleator-Sellafield v.v.
• Fri March 14: Sellafield-Newcastle-Schiphol-Deventer

Skybrary

At ATC2008 in Amsterdam, www.skybrary.aero will be presented by EUROCONTROL. The result of the effort of many (including a little bit of mine), this wiki-based site promises to provide a significant contribution to the sharing of aviation safety knowledge.