Well, this blog was to be about my hobby interests, mainly teeny little ships for wargaming purposes, rather than me oozing opinions and comment on everything that comes to mind.
But, here I am, fluffing on about something I found on the net and found to be rather cool. Fortunately, in all likelihood no-one but me and Google's webspiders will ever read this.
Anyway, not long ago, there was a civil trial in Britain where the writers of some "history" book claimed that the bestselling religious thriller The Da Vinci Code was ripped off from their work. I haven't read the books, and have no plans to, but was vaguely amused to read that the the judge, Mr Justice Peter Smith, had inserted a coded message in his judgement as a gentle piss-take on those behind the case. Which turns out to be naval in nature (the heading of this post) and so perhaps not entirely off-topic for my blog.
But that's not what caught my eye. A link I followed reading the article turned out to be the actual judgement. And, err, it was quite good. Despite having a typical sneering attitude to lawyers (1) I found it readable, sensible and interesting despite my lack of interest in the subject and it showed a pleasing willingness by Smith to allow his personality and interests show through. (And I share many of his interests, it seems).
(1) Why do they now use lawyers for scientific experiments? Because there are some things rats won't do.
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