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 a block of unformatted Times New Roman and the table cast asunder or somehow uglified but, amazingly, it’s perfect.
This last week has been my week of rest before going to Japan on Tuesday. Except, it never works out that way, does it? Saturday and Sunday were spent alternately drinking and wandering around town, Monday was an impromptu St. George’s Day celebration at the rather decent “Vauxhall Griffin (formerly Wyvils)” as they have on all their literature. Tuesday was another impromptu beer at the same place with a visitor duly pissed off with the Home Counties and demanding some London love. Wednesday would have been my final deserved rest day except I ended up at a Flickr gathering for the 365 Londoners group. My liver would have given up if I didn’t have last night off. I sat in and did absolutely nothing. It was glorious.
Above is a shot I’d like to take again. Maybe in HDR or on a duller day when the sky isn’t being so bright. The picture is taken inside a towering installation called Jericho in the front courtyard of the Royal Academy on Piccadilly. It’s a gritty tower of rough and raw reinforced concrete plonked jarringly in the middle of the classical buildings of the Academy. Lovely!
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