Tomorrow 18th October 2011, my cousin Warwick Bellamy gets married!

I ought to be there with him, stood to one side and smiling. Not doing anything significant but just being there. That would be enough.

But I wont be there and that’s a great shame, I owe cousin spewey a quiet apology for that. As is the way with life, events conspire against us and I was never able to make the wedding trip happen as much as I would love it to. Anything less than being there is no substitute at all.

None the less, I wish both him and his lovely fiancé Kelly Smith the best of luck. Although I’m sure they won’t need it.

Update

The wedding went well. Even a rain shower in paradise didn’t halt proceedings and so it shouldn’t.

Congratulations Mr and Mrs!

There are some superb photos here: http://catseyeproductions.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/a-wet-wedding-in-port-douglas/

I grew up in an era of great technological change. Man had landed on the Moon the first personal computers were coming to the fore and the Space Shuttle promised to accelerate our lives into the future. I grew up watching Star Wars reading 2000AD comics and using my first home computer to program in BASIC. At that time the film 2001 A Space Odyssey seemed to be a not unrealistic representation of where we would be at the turn of the century.

As time has passed the world has changed and life moves on, but the promises of my youth have faded. After the Moon landings there were no trips to Mars, no Moon base, no Jet Pacs and no Air Cars. Sure the technology has advanced and science has made startling new discovery’s but the world we thought we were promised as kids has never materialised.

Last year I watched the film Blade Runner again, for the first time in many years, and something startled me. The opening credits read, “Los Angeles 2019″. It’s startling because at the time the film was made it was deemed reasonable for that date to be an acceptable time frame for the technology and level of development displayed in the film. It’s clear to all of us now that in 8 years time the world we live in will be nothing like that.

But there is something else which is equally startling. (more…)