We went to Portsmouth today. We went on a crappy boat trip around the harbour and got cold. We ate cake and went paddling. Then we came home. All in all, quite a pleasant day.

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Pretty and talented.

His homepage is at ryan-w.com

It's been a pretty wet morning, but I got some reasonable shots. Click the salami to head over to the gallery:

I currently host my server on the end of an ADSL line (provided by Be*) whilst I look for some new hosting for it.

The ADSL service has been a bit, well, rubbish to put it lightly of late hence the lack of availability of sites every now and then.

You can check my server's external connectivity at L8NC - if there are any red bits, that's bad :)

Parceline have got to be the worst courier company I have ever had the misfortune to had dealings with. What follows is the venting of my spleen, having shitted away a day waiting for them:

Hi,

I had a parcel due to be delivered today (xxxxxxxx) and there have been two of us in all day waiting for it, and taking time off work.

At around 3, I phoned your call centre and was told that the package was definitely out for delivery and that it could arrive any time before 5.

At 5.15 I phoned again - the helpful person tried to contact the driver but without success. The driver's depot told the CS agent that the driver was still out on his rounds and hadn't returned.

At 6, I phoned up your call centre again in an effort to find out what was going on - I was promised a call back "shortly" with the answer. I still haven't had the call...

I tried to phone you at 6.45, but of course, you were closed...

At 7 your online tracking updated to show that you were "Unable to deliver, calling card left" at 3.14 today. This is not true - no-one tried to deliver and no calling card was left.

What am I to do now? Do I take another day off on the off-chance you try to deliver tomorrow?

I expect an email or phone call to tell me that it will arrive before 9am tomorrow. 

As promised, my first picture with my new Nikon D50.

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Cherry blossom tree in Canary Wharf

It's about time someone stuck up for nuclear power, and there's no one better than the co-founder of Greenpeace writing in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html

I only hope Mr Blair comes rapidly to the same conclusion...

A comedy carrot:

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Well, I've sold my Fuji on ebay and just bought a great Nikon D50. My favourite thing I've come across so far, is that it records what orientation the camera was in (portrait / landscape) with each picture, and when you open it up in Photoshop or Nikon's own software, it's automatically rotated for you. Neat.

I'll shout when my first proper photos are up

I'm selling my Fuji S602 camera on ebay at the moment - take a look if you want to bid :)

Comes with loads of extras, so it's a great bundle. Happy bidding!

In GayTimes:

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