I have been playing around with Windows Live Maps today and doing a comparison with Google Maps. On a pure mapping front there doesn’t seem to be much between them but the aerial views are much, much better on WLS. The quality of the view for our house for instance is just stunning. It was clearly taken a couple of years ago at least but the clarify is almost frightening. It’s not as good for every area but is still pretty good. As an example of the level much seems to be at take a look at the aerial of the WilliamsF1 factory. When you are bored of that take a look for your house.

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The local council want to shut my sons secondary school, Ryeish Green based on a falling roll. Research carried out by the council shows that the roll will continue to fall making the school not viable. However, independent research carried out shows that the councils figures are wrong and the that the roll will actually rise making the school a necessity. It is the only school in Wokingham designated as “rural” and the only one this side of the district. Should it be closed it will mean a great deal more travel across the district for the displaced pupils – many of whom can walk today.

My personal view is that this is a purely political move for the council who could do with the money the sale of such a large site would bring in. Of course they claim otherwise, however, I would be very surprised if the council just left the site empty though.

Anyway should you wish to support the school you can do so on the Downing Street e-petitions site. I would urge you to do so.

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It has been interesting to watch the qualifying shenanigans over the weekend and then see the following announcements from the McLaren team regarding what happened and then try and match that to what was on TV. To me something doesn’t quite add up.

Why is it that the questions that you really want answering never seem to be the ones that get asked? Lets take the word of the team as being correct for a moment, i.e that the team decided that they were going to hold back Alonso for the right moment and then release him. This raises a number of points. Firstly that they would have known that this would have meant that Hamilton would not have been able to get out again in time to complete his flying lap. Why would they do that? To teach him a lesson? I can’t believe that.

More importantly if it was the “team” that decided to hold back Alonso then why was Ron Dennis shown throwing off his headphones and then marching Alonso’s personal trainer down the pit lane immediately after the event? No one seems to have bothered to ask this question and if they have not given the answer.

I think that the most likely answer is that the team are taking the rap for whatever actually happened. This raises a further point and that is if that is true and Ron knows the real situation then his words over the weekend have at best been bending the truth and so how can he be trusted over the “Stepneygate” situation?

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