Wimbledon Roof Designer
The title of this post is simple and it is something that you would type into Google, if you wanted to find out who designed the Wimbledon roof.
My page called Wimbledon’s Roof comes up seventh in the list.
This is amazing considering that the page in this blog has only been viewed thirteen times, since it was posted. I would have thought, I would be way down with a hit rate like that!
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was the mission where the oxygen tank blew and they had to use the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) to bring the astronauts home. It all came back to me after the program on BBC2 tonight.
What is not generally known is that the calculations were performed not on a digital computer, but on a PACE 231R analog computer, which was one of the greatest machines ever built. NASA had two slaved together as the analog half of a hybrid simulator of the Apollo mission. When Apollo 13 blew, they reprogrammed it to work out the trajectory that brought everyone home safely.
I used to work on a PACE 231R and know how easy it would have been with that machine to sort out all of the differential equations compared to the sort of digital machines we have today.
Without the analog machines, it may have been that Apollo 13 would have been more unlucky.
Searching for this Blog
As I said earlier, I’m now getting hits from Google.
I’ve just found that if I type venison redcurrant celeriac rosti into the search engine, the page I entered is second. Now I know it is a rather specific search, but the recipe is printed on Waitrose venison, so I would have thought it would be on their web site. It’s not!
The page on President Ahmadinejad’s Personal Hygiene is also being looked for and scores high too.
condron.us
This site sent me a reader and it says if you mention them, they’ll send you more traffic.
Let’s see if it happens, if I mention condron.us again.
The Advantages of Blogging
I’ve just had two hits to this blog from search engines.
It just shows how fast blogs get entwined in Google, Live and all the others.
So I would always advise someone starting a business to go the blogging rather than web site route. Especially, if you use something like WordPress, which allows you to have a small web site as well.
The Anonymous Widower 