As if our desktops are not cluttered enough, here is another good one: the Boeing 787 widget. It sits next to the IBM SOA one I use.

Get it here.

Testing Google Wave with the IBM team .. very nice and very clever. Would be nice to have this in addition to all the clever IBM stuff I use

The remarkably talented guys at http://www.cockpitware.com have a really nice and lightweight remote navigation system that looks really cool – for a shed-load less money than Project Magenta (i.e. none).

Tested the other night .. worked with FS9 but for some reason as yet to be determined not with FSX. Screen shot below shows the display running on a Samsung NC-10 web-book mini laptop under the 28” simulator screen with an FS9 PSS Dash 8-300 (from the game Airline Pilot).

Set-up was simple .. FS9 machine (A) has the server code installed to communicate FS9 offsets to the OGS client running on the laptop (B). FSUIPC is not used as I am mean and don’t want to pay for it while testing this set-up – I am using IOCP which is free. FSX machine and laptop talk over WiFi. OGS client laptop has OGS code installed

Really cool stuff .. check-out the code – took 5 mins to set-up. Can’t wait for the FMC to be released.

Figure 1. OGS look & feel (from cockpitware’s website)

I’m off to Barrow-in-Furness on Thrusday .. hmmm, not sure the car is amphibious. Lets hope the rain dies down.

Watching Madagascar on the car DVD player .. While missus is having her teeth checked. Lucky her. http://myloc.me/1FnUK

Grim weather here in the ‘pool. Off to the dentist this afternoon (the wife, not me .. last time for me was 20 years ago!!!)

Sad to read that Boeing 737 co-launch customer United Airlines had last 737 flight on October 28th. </sniff>

Having trouble with the FSX Acceleration activation routine – stoopid Microsoft don’t get their cutomers and how they use the software. D’oh

Watching some technical guru friends demo-ing IBM’s PLM capability inside WebSphere Portal in an aerospace engineering environment .. slick.

Good news for Turks in the northwest .. Pegasus to start MAN-Antalya and MAN-Dalaman flights soon (thx to Business Traveller mag).