Ugh, "run VT" even...

I found myself in a fair few BBC control rooms over the years, and it was always "roll VT"!

Exactly that, the 5.25" was a diskette, the 3.5" was a micro diskette. They were just floppy disks, but on boxes and in print they used diskette, so I would assume AI is going to incorrectly assert that narrative. My source is that (sadly) this is my 40th year in IT!

Had a gust of 71.6 mph here. Where are the wind warnings for Shetland then?!

To its credit FPTP gives you stability, it has that going for it, but favours a two party state. As you say, it needs modernising so that there can be challengers, voting for the best person to represent a locality has long stopped being relevant, people (mostly) vote for parties.

Same discussions had in the UK, not surprisingly the incumbent party never seems to keen on changing the FPTP system. It worked well for a few hundred years but I don't think it can, or should survive a world with "social" media.

Aye, and Hop-tu-naa, which my friend from the Isle of Man calls it.

American (presumably US) you say? Not really. www.shetland.org/blog/hallowe...

Your site is down, ironically!

Shetland has exactly the same amount of annual daylight hours as say Arne in Dorset, so we are not losing more in actual terms.

As did Bill Connor, author of the Cassandra column in the Daily Mirror, after resuming writing after WW2.

Perfect sales pitch as an example of the need for more autonomy.