With this being the 50th anniversary of Star Trek Creation have extended their annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas going from 4 to 5 days. They will have over 100 Star Trek guests in attendance, although that number is the same number of guests as they had the last several years with only four days of programming ( Read more... )

As some people may have heard there will be a referendum in two months’ time about whether Britain should remain in the EU. For no especially good reason, given I don’t anticipate this changing anyone’s views I thought I’d enlighten everyone with my thoughts on the subject. Lots of politicians, business people, and others have made a range of ( Read more... )

I’ve been hit badly by a Google prank. See http://news.sky.com/story/1671157/googles-minion-april-fools-prank-backfires. I was in the middle of a conversation with an International banker. Apparently someone with the same name as me died ( Read more... )

I recently discovered our local council offer a one for one replacement service which I was previously unaware of. Local residents can take in foreign spouses or partners and get them replaced with British Citizens. This seemed to be a perfect deal so I took forestgreenivy in this Tuesday and got her replaced.

I wish it was as simple as the above suggests. forestgreenivy ( Read more... )

Just a question Mr Trump might want to answer. I know that he and his supporters will say its a silly question because the answer is obvious. But in reality the answer is nothing of the sort ( Read more... )

Welcome to 2016 boy it seems less than 500 days since we started 2015 and here we are in 2016 already, at this rate I suspect 2017 will arrive in 450 days or less ( Read more... )

At an event in 2002, I can’t remember which one, I saw France Nuyen, the actress who played Elaan in the classic Star Trek episode Elaan of Troyius. Why do I mention this now?

Well back when I saw her she asked me for a favour. Not sure what it was but my best guess is that I got her to sign her page in the Star Trek Fact Files and she wanted a ( Read more... )

Zuben, a much loved ferret boy. Zuben was a real personality, we keep our ferrets in a room with a three foot door. It’s perfect we can see over the door before walking in to ensure we know where potential escapees are, and can reach down to pick up or give treats to ferrets without entering if needs be ( Read more... )

People keep saying 4,000,000 people voted SNP and they get 56 seats, 4 million voted UKIP and they got 1 seat. I'd like to point out this is simply untrue ( Read more... )

Slowly the original cast of Star Trek are leaving us for the stars ( Read more... )