In the aftermath of the storm...

...the tree stood, broken hearted...

( The Heartwood )

A tree, its side ripped off by the wind, exposes a simulacra worthy of Fortean Times.

It was dark, the rain poured down, the Tube stopped working...

...I had to walk from Putney Bridge to home, and spride had shown me how to use the manual functions on my digital camera. What was I to do?

Stand in the rain and take photographs!

( Caution: night time photography experiments inside. )

Living with Google...

...is like breathing. You can't survive online without it. Installing the Google toolbar is the first thing you do when you set up a Windows PC with IE. Or at least tweaking Mozilla so it uses Google as its default search engine.

And this is why:

I found an amazing quote on evan's LJ, from a lecture by Google's Urs Hölzle:

"Google gets 1,000 hits per second...
*advance slide*
...at 2am...
*advance slide*
...on December 25th."

Such is the lot of the gamer...

...for, as Igor says: "IT MUST BE MINE"!

Don't buy BMG Music CDs...

...as they will be copy-protecting all their CDs in Europe, using Cactus Data Shield - a technology that has damaged computers, and is unable to play in most car CD players. And you can just forget about that MP3 player of yours...

More details on this insane policy here.