Put it Away...

I'm talking cameras: I know I am quite bad for always wanting to photograph stuff when on holiday, but I'd like to think I know when to put the camera down and just use my eyes.

But when in Paris we went to the excellent Musée d'Orsay, which is a beautiful building jam packed with fantastic paintings by Picasso, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gough and Toulouse-Lautrec amongst others. And I couldn't believe the number of people who their time taking second rate photos of these beautiful paintings with their digital cameras. They did get in the way of other people trying to look at the paintings although I admit to enjoying getting in the way of their photos...

If you like the paintings, get a print or a postcard, and enjoy the originals while you can!

The Prayer

Am particularly liking the new Bloc Party album at the moment, especially some of the lyrics. Like in The Prayer:

"Lord, give me grace

And dancing feet..."

A fantastic sentiment!

Dr Who and Technology

This article is great:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html

the best quote being:

"PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC)..."

Me, I've never really used a Mac outside of Apple shops where they are at their most shiny and so I have no real opinions about them (other than they look very nice). But great to a read a passionate, reasoned argument...

Back...

Well I thought I should get round to posting again, it being a while since I have posted anything. But what to write about... there's been holidays, kayaking, films, beer, gigs, tech stuff, wine, job hunting: it goes on.

So this will do to start off with, and will think of something more worthwhile to write about next time...