Tumblr (3.0; @garethbowker)http://blog.tgb.org.uk/<p>Weird.</p> <p>Last night, I got an email from Qatar Airways, with a boarding pass for a flight today. I’m not jetting off anywhere, so it was a bit confusing… Checked the email headers, definitely from Qatar Airways. Checked the IP address it came from. Qatar. Looked at the boarding pass. Looks real enough. Hm.</p> <p>I just got off the phone with Qatar Airways, where the conversation went something like this:</p> <blockquote> <p>Me: (short explanation of the situation)</p> <p>Qatar: Do you have a booking reference?</p> <p>Me: Yes, it’s ******</p> <p>Qatar: Is that Gareth Bowker?</p> <p>Me: Yes…</p> <p>Qatar: Married to a Mandy Bowker?</p> <p>Me: No…</p> </blockquote> <p>So, Gareth and Mandy Bowker, travelling to Doha tonight, have a great flight… and I’ve got your boarding pass.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/278764377http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/278764377Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:34:16 +0000<a href="http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/expertcharts?LANG=en&MENU=0000000000&CONT=ukuk&MODELL=nae&MODELLTYP=1&BASE=-&VAR=visi&HH=0&ARCHIV=0&ZOOM=0&PANEL=0&WMO=">UK Visibility Chart</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/222902161http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/222902161Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:17:03 +0000<a href="http://colorsuckr.com/">Extract colors from photos and make color schemes | ColorSuckr</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/169006661http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/169006661Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:08:24 +0100<a href="http://www.myafpex.co.uk/GATraining.htm">NATS AFPEx Training</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/162421618http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/162421618Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:43:52 +0100<a href="http://www.ready.noaa.gov/ready-bin/jmovie.pl?id=GFS&mdl=grads/gfs/europe&file=panel2&nplts=31">GFS Forecast Model Animation</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/162260538http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/162260538Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:07:03 +0100<a href="http://fudsec.com/showing-the-oblomovs-the-door">Showing The Oblomovs The Door</a>: <p>“The CEO who lets the Security organization become the compliance department has abdicated to the government and Payment Card Industry his responsibility to understand and manage organizational risk….</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/158731114http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/158731114Sat, 08 Aug 2009 21:50:25 +0100<a href="http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/index.html">OS OpenSpace from Ordnance Survey</a>: <p>Non-commercial maps API for the UK.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/144170688http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/144170688Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:56:16 +0100<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/21/iran-neda-warning-gr.html">Iran: Neda (warning: graphic video) - Boing Boing</a>: <p>Absolutely horrific video from Tehran.<br/> I watched this last night and it’s haunted me all day.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/128369436http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/128369436Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:20:00 +0100<a href="http://b1ff.org/2009/04/29/2276/fire-detroit-gop-microsoft/">Microsoft is the Detroit of software</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/101795082http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/101795082Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:30:38 +0100<a href="http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/">sqlmap: automatic SQL injection tool</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/93778327http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/93778327Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:59:57 +0100<p>It turns out I’m not old, after all:</p> <p><a href="http://trainhorns.net/sound/"> <img src="http://trainhorns.net/sound/img/passed.png" alt="Train Horn"/></a></p> <p>What’s interesting - to me, at least - is that after I’ve heard the high-pitched sound for a short while (like in the sound clip in the link above), it remains for a while, just like tinnitus. Playing the sound again and it seems louder the second time. It’s about 5 minutes since I last played the sound, and I can still “hear” it. Weird.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/81811996http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/81811996Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:08:19 +0000<a href="http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/">Eucalyptus</a>: <p>Build your own EC2 infrastructure, sans Amazon.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/80261496http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/80261496Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:19:15 +0000<a href="http://www.koolflyer.co.uk/EMA%20VFR%20Pilot/Home%20Page.htm">EMA VFR Flying</a>: <p>Notes on how to transit East Midlands’ airspace.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/80205511http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/80205511Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:19:01 +0000<a href="http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/57-free-image-gallery-slideshow-and-lightbox-solutions/">Free Image Galleries, Slideshows And Lightbox Solutions</a>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/72557118http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/72557118Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:46:26 +0000<a href="http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=51535">AVGAS UK Prices</a>: <p>Flyer magazine is collecting and collating AVGAS prices throughout the UK.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/72267066http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/72267066Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:45:31 +0000“A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, which is the sign of a weak government”<br/><br/> - <em>Gordon Brown, 1992</em>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/71989886http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/71989886Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:08:50 +0000<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/6n54JnQ3Miue7pij9ARH1lY6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Sunset over Cairo Airport.</p> <p>Got diverted into Cairo earlier today due to a fault with the plane - the water system was broken, meaning no toilets, sinks, and more importantly, no coffee.</p> <p>I’d never seen the Pyramids before - stunning!</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/71197234http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/71197234Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:25:41 +0000<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="219" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="219"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/68364955http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/68364955Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:16:11 +0000<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/6n54JnQ3Mibk5cxzsWNomEXyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Final on Runway 09, Liverpool, after an aborted attempt to get to Caernarfon (bloody UK weather!). Me at the controls, in case you were wondering :)</p> <p>Photo by <a title="Ele's Blog" href="http://ele-is-crazy.livejournal.com/">Ele</a>.</p>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/68322899http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/68322899Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:04:12 +0000“Children seldom misquote you, in fact they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.”<br/><br/> - <em> Anonymous</em>http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/67018784http://blog.tgb.org.uk/post/67018784Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:32:00 +0000