Second Post of the year!

I was bored, this afternoon so i decided to buy myself a new lens for my 400D.

Last year I gave my 70-300mm Sigma to Lloyd and i've been without a telephoto since.

So I decided I'd get myself a replacement. I picked the new Canon EFS 55-250mm IS (Image Stabiliser).
I'll stick a few shots here, when I get a chance to use it. Maybe tomorrow . . .

First Post of 2008

I'm posting this because i feel I have to. It's not that I've got anything important to say, It's just that i think I should post something every once in a while...

I've changed my web host to 1and1, after my previous host went bust and all my websites went down. I also had backed up a load of digital images to their server, which have vanished. Stupidly, they were the only copies I had. I moved them there when I had a bit of trouble installing Leopard, and decided I would do a complete OS install from scratch rather than just upgrade.

So I've got no photo's from my Holiday to Scotland, last year :( . Just a few smal JPeg's on DevArt.
I think I'll have to be a bit more sensible with my back-ups this year.

Mikey

I'm a NERD!

In the past 2 days I've watched the complete series of HEROES and all the extras and deleted scenes, including the 73min pilot episode. AND... Both series of The IT Crowd including All the extras. I've lived off Ham sandwiches. and coffee.

Jehovah's Witness challenge

Everything limmy says is exactly how i feel about the Jehova's Witnesses. I've had a similar conversation, But I brought up the Dinosaurs. There was a stony silence. . . and they left. That was about 10 years ago. they haven't been back since.

After waiting, for over a month . . .

For my HEROES Season 1 Box set to arrive from across the Atlantic. It finally arrived yesterday.

But for some reason I just didn't have the enthusiasm and i really can't be arsed watching any of the 23 episodes , or the unaired pilot, or the 50 deleted scenes, or The Making of Heroes, orThe Special Effects, or The Stunts, or the Profile of Artist Tim Sale, or The Score, or the Mind Reader Game, or the Audio Commentaries with Cast, Crew and Show Creator Chris Kring. . .

How Cool is . . .

Satellite Navigation?
I got myself a Tomtom One XL for virtually half price with free speed camera updates. Now I've got Ozzy Osbourne telling me how to get to my "fucking" destination. It's only a few years since these things appeared and already the price has dropped so low, that even I can afford one. All you do is: enter a postcode as your destination, and it will guide you there via the fastest route possible. The "Safety Camera" feature is cool. It alerts you when you approach a speed camera. It tell's you how fast you are traveling, what the current speed limit is, where the nearest petrol station / cash-point / car-park / cinema / theatre / picnic area / camp-site / railway station / beach / hotel / hospital. . . etc. . . etc is/are. It's just great!

I always sneered at people who had thier sat-nav's on whilst they were driving along a perfectly straight stretch of motorway. I now realise they are so much more than just a voice, telling you where to go.

I now put it in the van just to drive to ASDA. A journey of approximately ONE MILE.

Buy one NOW!!!! you won't regret it

EDIT (23-09-07): Since I posted this, Amazon have put up the price ot £249.00. A hundred quid more than I paid. Ah Well. Looks like you missed a bargain.

Lardmobile 2

Yep! I've got a replacement for The Lardmobile. A late December 2002 model Suzuki Carry 1.3 .
It's only done 33,000 miles and was a bargain at £2,200. :)
I filled it up and it cost less than 30 quid. I've done 60 miles and the needle has only just dropped below the "full" mark. If I can get 310 miles from a tank full of fuel I'll have halved my fuel costs.
Fingers are crossed.
It's weird driving something, so small and nippy. It can literally turn on a sixpence. It makes the Land Rover feel like your trying to turn the QE2.
I'll get the plates transferred from The Lardmobile soon, and maybe a nifty set of alloys.