Alan Turing Bletchley Park War Winner

"The Code Book" by Simon Singh is still teaching history, but now it is going into the workings of the Enigma machine. Simon has moved on to Alan Turing and the codebreakers' work at Bletchley Park, with the observation that if the army had known of Turing's homosexuality, we would have probably lost World War II.

At Bletchley Park, the work was important, and sexuality was whatever you were. Remarks were made that the codebreakers, who included porcelain experts and crossword solvers, were scruffy and never shaved, washed or ironed their clothes, but without them, we would have fallen to Fascism. 

Ironic that many of our idiot electorate want to vote in the Fascist Reform/Restore parties today.

History

The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius in 1918. He patented the design and founded a company in Berlin in 1923 to market it for commercial use, before it was adopted and modified for military use by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Also on TV, I am watching "Dark", which is also twisting the melon of my mind with its time jumps and people meeting their past and future selves.

Still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

Books

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "The Code" by Alkimizta

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
7. God Knows I'm Good (I Really Do) - Thoughts on Vocal Writing
8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Enigma In The Dark

"The Code Book" by Simon Singh is still teaching history, but now it is going into the workings of the Enigma machine. This is melting my brain as it is one small thing after another. The historical sequences help break up the technical parts of the book, but this has been a difficult passage while still being fascinating.

The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius in 1918. He patented the design and founded a company in Berlin in 1923 to market it for commercial use, before it was adopted and modified for military use by Nazi Germany during World War II, but Alan Turing had not yet appeared to break it.

Also on TV, I am watching "Dark", which is also twisting the melon of my mind with its time jumps and people meeting their past and future selves.

Still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

Books

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Step On" by Happy Mondays

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
7. God Knows I'm Good (I Really Do) - Thoughts on Vocal Writing
8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram

Marconi And Zimmerman's Plot to Cripple America

"The Code Book" by Simon Singh is still teaching history with the effect of codes and cyphers woven in. Marconi invented radio transmissions, but while it dispensed with wires, many said it would never be of any use for distances on 100Km. Marconi disproved this by receiving a transmission of Morse Code via kite in Nova Scotia from Britain. It turns out that radio waves bounce off the ionosphere and Earth, so there was no limit at all.

The problem was that messages could easily be intercepted, so cryptography had to take place.

In the First World War, the German Minister Zimmerman came up with a plan to keep the USA out of the war by persuading Japan to attack from the West, Mexico to attack from the south and Germany from the East. The message was deciphered by Britain's Room 40, so nothing came of it.

Still reading "Imajica" by Clive Barker on my Kindle. This is a book I never want to end. When I finish it, I just restart it.

I recently discovered that my American Amazon Author page has a feed from this blog, which you can see here. It only shows on the .com site but not on others. C'est la vie.

The music is "Messages" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Mike Singleton - Vocal Stories

I am not sure if you are aware of my writing on Vocal, but these are a few of my stories if you would like to sample them:

1. The Plagiaristic Poetry Series - Poems Taken From Random-Themed Lines
2. Another Raven - A Take On Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
3. The Cleaner - An Autism-Focused Christmas Special
4. The King Of Elfland's Daughter - A Wonderful Book By Lord Dunsany
5. An Owl In A Towel - A Beautiful Book by Lesley and Cheryl
6. Barter Books - An Amazing Bookshop In A Railway Station In Alnwick
7. God Knows I'm Good (I Really Do) - Thoughts on Vocal Writing
8. The Accidental Book - Helping a Great Vocal Friend Resulted In Me Publishing My First Book
9. Call Me Les - A Great Friend and An Amazing Writer, and this is her Instagram