Archive for April, 2007

Statues on tops of buildings across London

30Apr07

Anyone have a clue what’s going on here? We noticed these statues out on a walk around the South Bank on Sunday. They’re all perched on buildings such that they’re on the skyline. I think we counted 6 or 7 of them on buildings both the north and south banks. It must have been an [...]

Google Docs, drinking and the Royal Academy

27Apr07

I had a bit of an epiphany just now. I had a document with tables and formatting and hyperlinks in Microsoft Word and I uploaded it to Google Documents and it looked fine! I exported it as a PDF and it still looked fine! I had anticipated it would be chewed up and replaced with [...]

Mad dogs and marathon runners

23Apr07

I must admit I had higher hopes for photographing the marathon. Ostensibly, it’s a gathering of eccentrics and mentalists who, in this case, were willing to train for months and then run 26 miles in temperatures that I was sweating in just by standing around St. James’ Park. The opportunities for photography should be great, [...]