Upgruntled

I've invented a new word today. Upgruntled. It is the word that describes the feeling of a gadget lover when they find that one of their pride and joy gadgets has been superceeded by a new model and is therefore no longer the one to have. My lovely Fuji FinePix F1o has now been upgraded to the F11. The new one looks exactly the same (apart from the name). It probably produces identical pictures, although it has some new fangled picture modes. And my F10 is still brilliant.

But I still feel upgruntled.

Dodgy Moon

Dug out my moon picure today. Not too bad, but then again it could be a hole in a piece of card.....

Bradford Bound

Number one son and I toddled off to Bradford today to visit our chums at Matrix Multimedia. We are doing some stuff with them which is great fun (but we mustn't let them find out that we enjoy doing it or they'll cut our rates).

Anyhoo, the meeting went well and on the way back I persuaded number one son to take some pictures out of the car window:

You do get some nice skies at this time of the year.

Stealth Jokes

I like stealth jokes. These are the ones you can slip under the humour radar without anyone noticing. We were talking about ET in coffee (I forget why). I asked Derek what ET was short for. The answer is, of course, because he only has little legs. Nobody noticed the joke for a while. And then when they did they wished they hadn't.

Weak Minded and Strong Meetings

We all went shopping today. I feel bad about the fact that I bought a new toy, but it is very nice and replaces an old one. I'm going to put a review of the new device onto the TinyThings site as a service to gadget lovers everywhere. I'll put a link up there later. I make all these resolutions not to buy anything silly and then I find that they have one in stock and it looks really neat and will change my life and then..... Ho hum. At least I don't drink or smoke.

We had lunch at an "all you can eat" chinese place in the middle of Hull which was really nice. Get a bit of everything, find out what you like and then go back and get a plate full of it. And they had jelly. The only sad thing about the trip was that the middle of Hull was looking super duper and I had forgotten my camera.

Then back to work for a quick meeting. I've long known the secret of meeting success. You must make sure that everything that you talk about doing is written down and assigned to people who are going to do it. Then you can review the progress at the next meeting. Sounds simple but not everyone does it.