This makes me sad:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/22/kodak_retires_kodachrome_film/

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

*grins*

Cutting the ponytail off! The tail is still there and I have no plans to lose it. Sorry if the suggestion that one of the four wasn't true wasn't clear enough.

So yes, I've got a new car, a mondeo estate, ideal for diving and towing boats. My battered old astra is currently being sorted out before I try to sell it.

My new phone is the HTC Dream on Vodafone, the new android phone. No physical keyboard, and a lot sleeker than the G1. Battery life could be better though...

The Lj app on here is fairly basic, but better for posting than the webpage. Whilst at Praxis, I tended to post from work, but that's not an option here, and I tend to collapse when I get home and vegetate. Hopefully with the new phone, I will be posting more often during my commute...

So far this year, I've experienced a variety of changes that I really wasn't expecting at the start:

• I have an awesome girlfriend
  
• I have a new car
  
• I have a new phone
  
• I have cut my ponytail off
  

One of these is not like the others though... can you tell what it is?

I wonder what the rest of the year may bring?

Apparently, I need to post more often, or so I have been told...

( Small World Incident #1 )

( Small World Incident #2 )

( DIY )

Elsewhere... I saw two cars today with big cameras on poles stuck on top of them. One was a tiny smart car with NCP emblazoned on the side, so I assume it was for enforcing parking restrictions...

The other was just outside my flat, with me walking along peering at it, trying to figure out what it was.

It was, of course, the Google Streetview car. I suspect that in a few months, searching for my postcode will show you, well, me.

Um. Yeah :-)


That is all.

Wow. Not posted since the end of august. 5 months, must be pretty much a record even for me...

Needless to say, the snow has been pretty impressive today. Got up about 4am last night to get a glass of water and was seriously impressed that the reflected light from the snow in the back yard was enough to light up my main room. Went to back to bed, expecting it to have mostly disappeared this morning. Nope, still there. About six inches of it.

Made my ay to the train station and waited for a train. And waited. And waited. My normal commute is 30-40 minutes. Today, I added another hour onto that... On arriving home (earlier than normal, in case the weather detiorated and the few running trains were cancelled) I found 8 inches of snow on the bonnet of my car...

Can't face the carnage of the trains tomorrow, so I'm going to work from home :-)

What a pointless film. It's not often I deliberately post spoilers but, seriously, I'm doing you a favour.

It's not simply bad -- the direction is quite tight and there's some excellent photography. But the budget holders obviously decided that seeing Vin Diesel destroying stuff was a better idea than a film that has a plot or, well, any kind of resolution.

There's a backdrop of a postapocalyptic wasteland that seems to be pretty much all the world apart from the glittering consumerist nirvana of America, strange neo-religions seeking legitimacy, dead men walking round and suggestions of some undefined miracle that would do... something.

Then Vin Diesel blows stuff up, Vin gets a new silicone and aluminium hand, people die, other people live, and Vin lives happily ever after with two twin girls.

And to be quite honest, that is the ENTIRE plot. We're not even given the satisfaction of seeing the nominal bad-guy (someone who, to be fair, seems to be far less ruthless and dislikeable than Vin Diesel) get blown to smithereens.

It's crap.

I took myself off to Whipsnade Zoo today for an amble round. It's only 20 minutes away and is considerably larger than I was expecting. So lare that I barely managed to get all the way around during the day, and that was with showing up before the gates opened. Lots of really cool critters, including grey wolves -- the first time I've ever seen a wolf...

All in all, a very cool day, but my feet are now walked off. I'm also now a Friend of the ZSL, so I get free admission to both Whipsnade and London Zoo... so I think I might go there tomorrow...

Well, the bad side was being sat in the plane for three hours waiting for the baggage handlers to scurry out and do a bit more between bursts of lightening activity. I'm *very* glad that I wasn't in economy...

The good thing was, once airborne, watching the thunderclouds below us light up. So very, very cool...

I picked up a few more books over there -- depressingly, at a ratio of 1 USD : 1 GBP, making them about half the price of books over there.

Oh, and debitha, just thinking about your comment on Rachel Morgan, you'd tear your hair out at the heroine in he "Cast in ..." series of books. Even I'm getting rather annoyed by her.