I am travelling and sitting around waiting for planes can be very dull but, ah, the airport. Don’t you just love looking at the talent around the place?

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2005: Deception Point
2005: Same Again?
2003: Cough Cough

Ah the sun. It brings the males of the species into the park and makes them take off their shirts! Is this the first day of summer?

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2006: Spy Versus Spy
2005: Somewhere, Someday, Somebody, Somehow
2003: Good Friday

I have no idea why somebody behind my house was having a fantastic fireworks show yesterday evening – a great deal of money went up in smoke. Anyway, I thought this image looked a little bit like the “it could be you” hand from the old National Lottery advertising campaign. Maybe that’s just me.

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2004: Where is Ashley Paske

I acquired a new mobile ‘phone earlier in the week. I didn’t actually choose the model because I was sent it. It’s bigger and heavier than my previous mobile and it doesn’t have a radio – which I really liked when I was walking to work. It does, however, have a calendar function which I am finding quite useful and it does have one of those built-in cameras that people rave about.

It’s not the greatest camera in the world but it is quite cool having a camera that you carry with you all the time. For no real reason, on Tuesday night I decided that I wanted to take a shot of Piccadilly Circus (I work just round the corner). I have just pulled the image off the ‘phone. It’s not a great photo (in fact it’s a pretty poor one) but I am really quite happy with it. There is something about the colour and the light that suggest the real buzz you get from walking across Piccadilly Circus at night. Now, let’s see how many more photos I post.

Obviously, I am not the only person in the world to have a camera in a ‘phone, I am not the only person to get excited about it and I am not the only one to blog it. Guess there’s very little unique about me!

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2004: Gay Weddings This Week?
2003: Space-time continuum abused for financial gain
2003: Has the tide turned for free online content?

I’ve spent just a little over 24 hours in Florence. Most of the time I had a meeting and was working, but for the final hour of daylight I managed to walk around a little bit. The biggest surprise of all was how cold it was. There was a very chill wind and I could have used several more layers of clothing.

I didn’t get to see any of the art of Leonardo da Vinci (his apprenticeship was in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence in 1466) but I did get to see Duomo – designed by Arnolfo di Cambio at the end of the 13th century – and Ponte Vecchio (still standing from 1345).

It’s a old city with narrow streets and plenty of squares. The best way to get around seems to be on foot – or in typical Italian style on some kind of moped. Of course I had to take the final picture. What are they up?

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I have been looking through some photographs that I took on New Year’s Day. We were staying in a hotel in central London to celebrate the coming of the new year and I started trying to get an interesting shot from the arrangement of mirrors in the bathroom. Of course the resulting shot is an ideal image for The Mirror Project but, like everything I am doing at the moment, I didn’t get round to doing anything about it. So, yesterday, off it went and the result is available here.

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2004: Not American

Boxing Day was a bright breezy day for me in Spain. I tried to be clever taking a picture attempting to capture the sun on the swimming pool water. I failed but captured myself in the swimming pool steps. My first submission to The Mirror Project.

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2006: Resolution
2005: The Incredibles
2005: Shaun Of The Dead
2004: Honoured for HTML
2004: Unexpected Movie Gems
2004: 2003 In Summary
2003: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Heading for the last day of the year and it’s a lovely sunny Sunday in Denia. Walking round the town we got the urge to price apartments and villas and there are some fantastic little developments around here.

The old square was full of Spaniards sitting and talking in the shade and the fountain in the middle was full of beer cans. I can only assume the result of some Saturday night on the town! Remarkably peaceful and quiet really – we watched the ocean for a while before sampling the delights of the local Paella.

This really is quite peaceful really. Such a shame we can’t spend a lot longer here. It’s a relaxing change from the busy streets of London.

(This post was uploaded on my return)

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2004: Napoleon Dynamite
2003: At Home
2003: It Was A Good Read