While I was taking some shots of the Wellington statue in Waterloo Place I was stopped by an old soldier who though I was a professional who had take his photo before. As I have never made a penny from my photography I honestly said that I wasn’t. He gave me a little of his life story then “tapped” for some change. Sadly and again honestly I had none, in future I will keep a small float in my camera bag for such an occurrence. I now have some change from buying a coffee & a Danish in St James’ centre so if I see him on the way up the road I will give him some.

I was unable to get some of the shots that I had planned due to the amount of building work going on around the city centre.

I am blogging this from my iPhone. Last night I was putting a screen protector on my camera and decided to try on of the spares on the iPhone. First of all I was surprised that of worked at all and I have discovered I am finding typing on the on-screen keyboard a lot more accurate & therefore quicker the it was previously without the screen protector.

It has been months since my last blog post here so the chances are no one will be reading the blog anymore, but hey if you are reading this I am wrong. Post a comment even just saying “Hi”

An iPhone photo of Greyfriars Bobby.

Twitter to a certain extent provides a solution to this, however it is difficult to write all you want into a messge the length of a Tweet. Multiple Tweets I always find messy.

My hope is that the WordPress client on the iPhone will give me more flexibility and hopefully get me back to more interesting blogging. This is my first posting from the client and it seems a lot easier than previous attempts to mobile blog via email from the nokias that I previously used.

More later.

The guests for this event were originally Sarah Shahi, Laurel Holloman, Rachel Shelley and Anne Ramsay. Sarah Shahi and Laurel Holloman had to withdraw from the event in the weeks before and were replace by Lauren Lee Smith and Guinevere Turner

The event at Heathrow is a lot smaller than the Blackpool event held in November, which was good as the guests seemed more relaxed and mingled for quite a while with the fans at the parties in the evenings.

Rachel Shelley as the home star was the main draw for most people, judging form the attendance at the Q&A. Rachel came across as funny and down to earth and seemed to have a great time dancing with the guests on the last night.

Anne Ramsay said at the opening ceremony that the audience could ask her “anything” they did and all credit to her she gave answers. Anne was funny and spoke a lot about her career, both Louise and I thought she was awesome in Mad about you

Lauren Lee Smith was kind and sweet. Lauren spent ages in the foyer on Saturday night talking to fans and made Louise’s weekend at the Q&A on Sunday “Aww” Clair, Lauren’s “Super Fan” was great as she not only had a list of questions of her own that she asked when others were not waiting she asked several for people who were too nervous to do it themselves. I did ask Lauren a question and I could feel an attack of stage fright coming on but I held it together.

Guinevere Turner was suffering from jet lag on the first full day of the event but on the second day did a good Q&A with Rachel Shelly on Sunday.

“Waves” to all those we spoke to and hung around with over the weekend, hope you are caught up with your sleep and the hangovers were not too bad.

I now have two signed programmes from the two events and I have decided that I will auction them for charity on ebay at some point in the future. I think three signed programmes might be a bigger draw and we are thinking about going to the L5 event in November but are not sure yet. The only guest announced so far is Jennifer Beals.

On our wish list for other guests would be Mia Kirshner which seems unlikely and Pam Grier

I have enjoyed using the machine so far, it was one of the pieces of equipment that I grew to like when I used to go to a gym. I am easing in to using it as I know the downfall of the temptation to do to much and end up sore for days.
I have also been doing some work with the weights I have. The progress towards my target weight loss is currently standing at 5.7% and I hope to improve a bit on that in the next few weeks.

My other seemingly never ending quest is to find an active function for my rickis.net domain. My latest idea is a Drupal/Unix/Linux/Open Source information site. I sort of started down this route last year but I didn’t have any content, surprise, surprise! However I have since built up some notes and example that might be helpful to someone, if only me when I forget stuff. I am hoping to go live next week but that will depend on pressures from work.

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My Result Was:
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I am also working on a new theme for the blog. It will be a radical departure from my previous designs, although not a radical departure from other designs out there. It will be simpler and let me embed video’s which this design currently won’t do without breaking.

I have become quite addicted to the Sopranos. I missed it when it initially started showing on UK Tv but More 4 have started showing it again from the start, although at around midnight.

It is a MacBook, the base model but it is the first computer I have that was built this century and is a lot faster than any of the computers that I use at work.

One of the first things I have found is that YouTube is actually viewable, my old computers, bless their little silicon hearts really weren’t up to the job.

In between watching highly regarded BBC presenters saying “Fuck” and other out-takes I came across many “Freudian Slip” videos, the one below possibly being the best. It made a certain person I know laugh, a lot!

Pea Salad anyone?

The embedded version destroyed my layout so it is maybe time for me to change design.