Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 11:40PM Woke up this morning feeling much better. So it was off to the airport and on to the plane. I'm going to the Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle and to be quite honest I'm rather excited.
I've also taken the camera(s).
Obligatory Taxi shot from airport
Seattle skyline
The view from my hotel window. Might be a bit noisy tonight....
Friday, April 11, 2008 at 09:34PM For some reason I've felt awful all day. Maybe it's something I ate. Maybe it's excitement about going away tomorrow. Either way, today I did something I've never done before. I walked out of a lecture I was giving. I was only for a few minutes while I pulled myself together, and then I went back in and finished off. But at the end I felt awful. I was a bit sorry for the chap who asked me a question and got the answer "I'm very sorry, but I can't answer that right now as I have to leave the room for a while...".
Anyhoo, I staggered home and slept for a couple of hours, which gave me enough energy to pack.
Life Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 11:39AM I've found this rather nice custom homepage maker:
It lets you make your own home page with customised content (yes, I know there are loads of these but this one is quite nice). I've only found one snag so far. It figures out where you are and then offers up a list of events in your region, added to a map so you can find them easily.
I just hope everyone can swim.....
Link Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 09:26PM We are having a kind of clear out in the department. All kinds of stuff is going out. We found this rather anonymous looking boxy thing. Which turned out (once we have worked out how to open it) to be a Polaroid SX-70.
A real blast from the past. This is an incredible device which when it was launched was an instant camera that worked like an SLR. It had special film that gave amazing results. I vividly remember seeing it on Tomorrows World when it first came out. And now we are chucking them out. Such is life.
Fortunately the Hull University Photographic Society (HUPS) was on hand to take the camera into its collection and give it a good home (well, better than being left in my office).
It is getting very hard to find film for these cameras, but the pictures it produces are incredible. I hope that we can stump up enough cash to get a film pack and run off a few shots with a piece of photographic history.
Gadgets Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 08:57PM 
If you've ever wanted your own RSS feed reader written using XNA (and who hasn't), you can now get one at verysillygames.
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