Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

After Honeymoon Express, we go for Honeymoon Pro^* on November the 8th, arriving in New Zealand on the 13th and staying there until the 14th of December...

So, as marypcb noted in her LJ a couple of days ago, we'll be having a post-wedding open house on Sunday the 31^st October, when we will have been living in the East Putney Museum Of Science Fiction, Fantasy And Comic Art (and Lending Library) for 7 years...

^*I think I have reviewed too many Microsoft server and developer products...

Microsoft Flight Simulator is now 25 years old.

That's a quarter of the time we've had powered flight...

In those 25 years we've gone from a vague semblance of reality in lines and dots...

to near-photorealistic images that mean that Flight Simulator is now a common primary trainer...


Check out this poster of all the box covers over the years, along with a Channel 9 video from the development team, who seem to have a thing about DC-3s....