Alex's space

Magic Grids on SS Great Britain

SS Great Britain – grids in engine room, originally uploaded by alexlaurie.

Just loved the grids in the engine room

camera continued

for a short while i have been loaned a Leica D-LUX 2

already very impressed at the quality of the shots etc, and i will be posting some of the more interesting photos to my flickr soon.

in the mean time i am learing some of the techniques available on this camera as it seems to be be fuller featured than your average compact digital.

time for a new look

along with Rodcorp’s insistance that light text / dark Background = bad, i am getting board of this layout, even though it took me an age to play with pixels in the header image to make it look like Brighton.

So off to the textgarden for me to find a new layout that will fit in with my new stripped down approach.

Is it me or is it Nokia?

I seem to have some bad luck with phones at the moment.

It started with my Nokia N80, it was a nice phone but in all honesty not built too well, I had several replacements from Vodafone before I gave up and moved to the Nokia N73 …

I thought all was going well but I did have to replace the N73 once (would not make / receive calls)! and one was stolen off me.

When I got fed up with Nokia’s for a while i tried the Sony Ericsson but it would not work with Shozu (a UK Voda thing) so I ordered me up a Nokia N95.

Initially very happy with the N95 but as luck would have it, the speaker and mic died so I had to get a replacement, a few days later that replacement was stolen off me at an airport.

so technically I have had to replace my Nokia(s) on average 2 times per phone which is probably not good enough, so is there a problem with build quality ?

EDIT – seems like the Nokia breaking bug has hit again, my N95 (apart from restarting itself quite alot), seems to have lost its ability to keep the date and time when ever you turn it off (i.e. little battery that manages this has died)... i will have to get it replaced, and in the mean time it looks like i might just have to give up on it and just use my BlackBerry as that works!

the new template - lazy days

the new template is a port by stuart of a wordpress theme from fullahead its called lazy days and at the moment i am learning about it so that i can tweak it (i have already tweaked the header images to be a bit more like home)!