Author: jane

There are some really impressive macro photos of the human body on the BBC site today. I especially like the fingerprint.

We went to La Fourchette last night for the first time since it’s moved. The food was as good as ever, although the blackboard full of fish/seafood choices has been replaced with a printed menu with slightly less choices. The service was excellent, and the atmosphere pleasant although it was a bit cramped (a couple too many tables). All in all, we’ll go back… again!

Tomorrow is Concorde’s last flight. I think this is a shame, as a) it was (and still is) a great technological achievement, and b) I haven’t flown on it. We were talking about this at work today, and I remembered that I’ve stood on a Concorde, and looked in the cockpit, and sat in one of the seats, but I haven’t flown on it. After leaving uni I worked for Speedwing Logica for a few years, and when we had a day trip to the office before starting work we were taken around Heathrow and shown around a newly kitted out 747 and a Concorde. My memories of Concorde are that it was very small, the cockpit was very low tech in comparison to the fly-by-wire 747.

After going to Camera Club last night and seeing some of the photos people have produced using home printers rather than the dark room or the printing services from people like pixology I’ve decided it’s time to look into getting one myself. My first stop is the Canon website where you can upload an image, and they’ll print it out on the printer you’re interested in. I’ve chosen this image as I seem to recall that images with greens in can be tricky to produce.

One of the guys at the office introduced me to RocketMania. Bah! Now I spend my spare office time trying to launch fireworks…

I’m working on a new database project at the moment which is dealing with a lot of number manipulations. To make sure we can test all the stored procedures/functions I started writing some test harness code. Then I did a quick google, and thanks to Robert Hurlbut’s .Net Blog I found a TSQL Unit Testing Framework. My first 2 test procedures did what I expected – yay!

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Part of the decoration making up the entrance to the Natural History Museum, London

I made it along to the Camera Club tonight and am very glad I did. Tonights guest speaker was Greg Whitmore, the picture editor for The Observer. He showed us some of the recent photographs that he’s commissioned for the Food Monthly magazine, and then some of the more recent news pictures. This sparked off a long and very interesting debate about all manner of news photography subjects, a lot of which related to the shock tactics used by some papers/photographers, and which turned the evening into the liveliest meeting I’ve been to so far.

We went to see Whale Rider this afternoon at the Duke of Yorks. A beautiful, moving film, and served to the accompaniment of free Ben and Jerrys ice cream. What could be better. Big thanks to the Vic, Kaye, Jeremy and Rachel for recommending it to us.

This evening was my first visit of the year to the Brighton and Hove Camera Club. Our speaker this evening was John Devenport showing prints on the theme of “Monochrome Images”. Some of them were very impressive, although I must be honest and say that he showed far too many photos for my taste – by the end of the evening I was suffering with a numb bum – one of the perils of sitting on the cheap seats at the back of the room. Despite that a very inspiring presentation, and it has made me want to go and get the camera out and start taking some more photos.