I can't be the only person who hates the new google image search.

Firstly, the new image results. OK, they look quite nice, but soon you realise that they've hidden the useful information like the image size and type. That's annoying, but I do quite like the way it loads the images as you scroll down the page.

But the big one for me is the annoying 'lightbox' when you choose an image to visit. Lightboxes are fine when you click on an image for a better look, but why do I need to see one when visiting the page? I've already seen the image out of context in the search results - I don't need to see it again. Why should I need to click the page again? Very irritating.

I'm sure somebody will create a Chromium extension to automatically use the old 'basic' search (which you can choose once you've done your search - but it doesn't seem to remember your choice), but in the meantime, a more brutal approach is to simply disable javascript for google.com (or google.co.uk in my case). It then defaults to the old frames based result view. Who would have thought that would have been preferable?

Check out this picture from the Vintage Computer Festival at Bletchley Park last weekend. That's Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) listening to a version of one of their tracks I did on the BBC Micro nearly 20 years ago!




The music even made it on to Radio 4, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnj3 at around 58:30...

Thanks to Dave Moore for the photo.

OK, so I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next man. Maybe I don't really see them everywhere, but I certainly don't buy the official line on a whole load of things.

9/11 doesn't add up to me. There are just so many things wrong with the official explanation for it to be true. Here is a link to the most balanced article I've read so far:

http://www.realitysandwich.com/traumatizing_mythology_9112001

Jaws - from when Hooper, Quint and Brody head out to kill the shark onwards. Top quality Spielberg - brilliant stuff, and 35 years old!