I had read that. And when you think about it, without the "a" the quote doesn't really make sense. But I was talking about when Cronkite tried to repeat the words for the benefit of the home viewer and basically said "He said 'One small step for man' and… I didn't quite catch the second part."

I'm not American so while I know who Cronkite was I didn't immediately put the voice together with the name. He's the guy who did the taking off the glasses after Kennedy was shot, yes?

Currently writing a Mad Men/Doctor Who crossover where Bert watches the moon landing and is then fatally wounded after taking out several Silence.

It started when he set up the TV job and had to start visiting the West Coast and mix with the TV execs. He became a douche pretty quickly after that.

The only event that I can remember the whole family sitting around the TV together watching slack jawed was when Princess Diana died. Not quite the moon landing.

Julio is no dummy - there is no earthly way Peggy's going to be visiting him "all the time".

Pete's "I've got 10%" was classic Pete. Even when we're all getting good news, Pete wants you to know his good news is twice as good as yours.

"I don't want to go to Newark."
"No one does."

And then the commentator fucks it up by saying he didn't catch the second part. I'd never heard that before.

I did this building a PC once! The floppy drive power connector was symmetrical and at least the cheaper ones had nothing to indicate which way they should go. So you just had to plug it in and turn on the power and see if the insulation started to melt. So long as you switched it off quickly you just turned the…

We called them Gestetner machines. And I wore an onion on my belt.

I remember reading an article in a Commodore magazine in about 1984 on the controversy of disks versus tapes. The argument in favour of tape storage was basically, who needs their computer to be that fast anyway? I'll load up a program and then go and make a nice cup of tea and perhaps have a biscuit. Doesn't that…

I called this in the comments last week! Unjustifiably pleased with myself. Short version - he may be too late to get a patent if he is already using the algorithm on his existing Pied Piper site and had disclosed it publicly, and copyright doesn't do much against the sort of reverse engineering those guys were up to.…

On the topic of the Thai-Burma Railway, I just finished reading The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan. Absolutely brilliant. If you have any interest in this part of history at all, find it and read it.

I agree. I watched The Civil War because the topic interests me but once I established that he is a great documentary maker, I was willing to watch pretty much whatever topic he chose to cover. I feel the same way about Simon Schama.

Yeah he seems like the sort of blowhard who regularly makes those sort of boasts and relies on no one checking the truth of what he just said.

I loved the "which Steve?" bit. All of Silicon Valley is divisible into those who want to be Jobs and those who want to be Wozniak.

Did he say at one point that his code was up on Github? If so - and he hasn't patented it yet because he has no idea what he has - I assume his new company cannot now patent his amazing new lossless compression algorithm because it has already been publicly disclosed. If that is correct, then all that is protecting…

I agree; I assume he boss is going to be pissed with him going to another investor and will at least have a go at claiming that the idea as Hooli's.

That's true under copyright law but it can be varied in your employment contract. Have you seen the sorts of employment contracts big tech companies make you sign? I recently had a look at an IBM contract for a friend and they basically own copyright in your dreams.