Borepatch

Country music is alive and well in the Emerald Isle.   Glór Tíre is a long running and highly rated country music talent competition on Ire...

Nightnoise is one of the most famous Irish jazz ensembles, combining jazz with traditional Irish themes.  As we come hard into St. Paddy...

As HMS Defiant points out, there's no There there : The knowing world watches and mocks as the mighty Royal Navy and Great Britain strug...

It used to be a real pain to install Linux.  My first Linux distro was Slackware on a v0.99 kernel that came on 35 floppy disks (ask your pa...

Sometime in the last two or three weeks the odometer here ticked over 20 Million page views.  Seems kind of weird that I wasn't tracking...

His Majesty's fleet seems to be entirely unable to protect His Majesty's subjects abroad.  There seems to be only a single ship (MHS...

This is Jeremy Clarkson from 1998, four years before he rebooted the Top Gear show.  They still had F-14s on the carrier.  This is a very co...

The 1980 film assembled an all-star cast of musicians.  This was perhaps the weakest song in the movie. 

The English language has evolved for basically as long as there has been English.  A great book on this subject is Robin MacNeil (and compan...

I posted about this 15 months ago. Midwest Chick has an update : The New Zealand navy was so proud and happy to have a lesbian from Britain...

A cruise ship got stuck in the ice off Antarctica, and the Coast Guard (by chance) had an icebreaker nearby.  Well done.