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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My fabulous Spanish office cleaner came in today, after finding this in our (shared) shower room. She wanted to know:
a) What it was
b) Whose it was
c) What to do with it now
I couldn’t give her an answer through my laughter…
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Sorry for the rubbish availability of the site today – just for once it’s not Be*, but a DDoS against my nameservers.
Bollocks.
Yesterday was the singularly worst service I think I’ve ever had from an ISP.
Be’s network started suffering from very high packet loss around midday – it carried on until late evening (9 or 10pm).
In all this time, it was impossible to get through to their call centre – not surprising given the scale of the problem. There was no acknowledgement of there even being a problem until midafternoon when something was posted on their forum.
We all know that it’s only human to suffer problems – it is bleeding edge technology after all. What riles me above all other is the total lack of communication to customers.
So, how about it Be, maybe you could put up a status page like every other ISP?
Now, I don’t normally do these online petition things very often, but this is different.
AOL are proposing to start charging (large corporations who send large amount of email) to email AOL subscribers. This is all being done in the name of an anti-spam measure, but it will only end up creating a two tier email system.
Some may argue that this is all that AOL subscribers deserve, but it does set a dangerous precedent.
Brussels is grey.
That’s about it, I’d forgotten that Brussels is such a dreadful place that it’s actually fun. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not going to make you cry, it’s just that it makes you glad that you actually live in London for once.
Grey
The plus points were Eurostar, although the security screening at Waterloo left much to be desired – incompetent, surly staff that threw your bags around and then asked whether the magnetometer had gone off as you walked through because they weren’t paying attention.
Oh, and the Atomium looks much nicer, although as it had only reopened after a two year closure the day we were there, we didn’t bother queueing to go in again.
Recently I attempted to setup a mail redirection, having posted off the forms and a cheque, I’d heard nothing back after three weeks. The call centre were… "helpful", but only to the extent that they told me that my letter to the Royal Mail themselves was "lost in the post".
I couldn’t quite believe it at the time, but now I see that Postcomm have handed out a record fine due to the unacceptably high levels of lost, damaged and stolen mail…
As from today, Mailbox Internet, now have none of their original technical staff at their colo centre in Parson’s Green. Their new owners, 186k, have plans to close it and move all the servers up to Leeds, although there’s been no official notification of this.
Because of this, I’ve moved my server out of a nice cold dedicated data centre and into my study at home. It has a fairly healthy upload speed, so performance won’t be affected.
It has also unfortunately coincided with same major problems on my new ISP’s network – mostly involving DNS it seems. I’m now running my own internal DNS to work around these issues; it also solves the problem I had with port forwarding on my router (it would redirect any HTTP requests to the public WAN IP to the internal router configuration page).