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I'm not a very regular bloggar, but a word or two seems appropriate as I'm here to start building my new home. I'm here because the recent crisis at Flickr/Yahoo conincided with my reaching the limit of my amateur account on Flickr. I don't want to find myself financing in however small a way a company which behaves as spinelessly as Yahoo has done in China. Or as the Yahoos have forced Flickr to do in Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea. I think Flickr has taken a number of steps down a very grey path - hence my illo.

The road to hell is paved with…

So, time flies. I've been sitting here since breakfast, but I've uploaded 25 photos, tagged, albumised and written descriptions for them. There were a couple of hiccups - the server overloaded at one point, and when I was geo-tagging some of the pictures, the system became very sticky, but it seems to have sorted itself out.

13 Passing in front of one of…

The weather's improved too. It's been raining for about 36 hours, but seems to have stopped now, so maybe a little fresh air? Why not!

 

I don't do holidays. I'm on holiday now, but more than half the time I'm still stuck in a work state of mind. And not just any old work state, but the same stressed out state I was in at the end of the school term. The only things that take me away from myself are photography, eating and alcohol. The first is probably the more healthy.

Pater Noster 2

Here are some photos I took earlier in the week. Living between two lives as I do at present, I don't always have the things I need where I need them, So the computer with Photoshop installed is elsewhere. Instead I'm making do with Microsoft's Picture it. That's my excuse for the newly uploaded pictures being so dark. That and the lowering rainclouds. Still the weather is a fair reflection of my state of mind when I'm not working with my photos, I suppose.

With all the rain we've been having lately, there's not been a great deal of incitment to get out and about, so I've been doing other things. Swedish TV showed Fritz Lang's M as a matinée feature on Wednesday. The first time I've seen it. Two results: my audio memory spent the rest of the day playing Al Stewart's Year of the Cat - not the whole song, just the lines "strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime" - over and over and over....  The other thing that fascinated me was all the smoke, cigarette smoke, cigar smoke, pipe smoke, and the cigar holders some of the character were using. 

I just wanted to get that off my chest. So, TV as well as photography, food and alcohol as a de-stress-er.