Ricardo Zonta has signed up for Toyota for another year. He will maintain his testing and reserve role for the year.

Oh yeah while I’m on a motor racing tip, other news is that Dan Whedon has signed for Chip Ganassi Racing for 2006. He narrowly missed out (so the rumour goes) on an F1 seat, so he will be driving for Honda and TCGR team.

As I mentioned earlier in the blog, I have not been convinced about Threshold as of yet, and it looks like I wont be. Seems it has been pulled so I won’t have to make my mind up (Thanks Dan for the heads up).

Lionhead studios have released a game called ‘The Movies’. I noticed this a while ago but never persued it. However some of the fruit’s of other peoples labours have now started to show up on the site.

It’s looking good, I may invest a few quid and see if the ‘game’ is any good to play.

I have had a quick look through the logs, and it seems there is another Ashleigh on the web (amazing!).

Her name is Ashleigh (Duh!) and she is from Canada, you can view her over on this site (not work safe). However here is a few piccies for your perusal (click through to see them) Read more »

Dan let me know (cheers chap) that a new beta was out for WordPress, now I’m a sucker for a beta (or alpha or pre-release….) so on she goes.

All seems fine, the DB upgraded ok and everything seems to work fine (besides the execute-pings.php bug)

I’ll keep an eye on it and let you know if there are any issues to report.

I have watched the latest Lost and my name is Earl (post). Lost is getting better again, the last few episodes were a little weak; this weeks Earl is possibly the weakest of them so far, but it did have a lot to follow after the wedding episode. 

The new series’ over in the UK at the moment are a little weak as well. Rome is truly rubbish, I know now why it went down so weak in the US. Also on at the moment is Threshold, not made my mind up yet on that, some of the acting is week; however it could have a decent story line to drive it. I am still watching season 2 of Stargate Atlantis and season 9 of SG-1 on Sky as well as I did not download them from the USA. 

What I am looking foward too? Well Jack is back in season 5 of ‘24′, that starts January 15th, and Battlestar Galactica continues in January as well. There is also Triangle (mini series, on SciFi) which airs in the US on Dec 5th, and also I might take a look at Manticore (also SciFi USA, staring Robert Beltran), and then there is hopefully a new season of Tripping the Rift next year (13 episodes a season is not enough). 

If there are any other TV shows out there tat you think may be worth a visit please let me know.

It seems that Microsoft are taking there high-performance computing division seriously. 

Microsoft has hired Burton Smith, the chief scientist at Cray Inc. 

It seems that Microsoft may be making a play for the traditional supercomputer users like the defence, aero and pharmaceutical markets.

In an interesting article it seems that some US games have been seen to be playing on a Japanese console. The titles without lock so far are know to be Call of Duty 2, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Gun and Tony Hawk: American Wasteland.

With a little luck all the titles EA are crippling (Like Madden 06) will not have region coding on them so at least it can be imported

Rally has already lost one great this year, and now it seems that the 2001 World Rally Champion Richard Burns has lost his long struggle with a brain tumour.

His family were at his side, and have asked that instead of flowers or gifts they would rather you donated to Cancer Research.

If you would like to leave a tribute to one of Britain’s best rally drivers then please follow this link.

I was merrely googleing ‘badgerbadgerbadger zombie‘ (both Dan and Stuarts sites apear high up in the list)and came accross a link to a great article called ‘Installing Linux on a Dead Badger‘, very funny.