Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

• Mon, 12:44: So how will HTC and Samsung react to Google buying Motorola Mobility? Shaping up to be an interesting Monday...
• Mon, 13:10: Enjoying @marypcbuk's cold-brewed ice coffee. Worked really well for using up old hotel filter packs!
• Mon, 14:19: Listening to the Google/Motorola conference call, it's definitely all about the patents. So will Google indemnify partners as a result?
• Mon, 15:30: What if Android is only the smallest part of the Google/Motorola deal? The big win for Google is a huge TV platform for advertising.
• Mon, 15:40: RT @dhmorton: On a cheerier note: 'google motorola mobility' is an anagram of 'Gloomier boat to gloomily'.
• Mon, 15:50: ZDNet UK blog post: Google and Motorola Mobility: it's not just the phones http://t.co/NOLvIR2 #zdnetuk
• Mon, 19:15: Have installed Spotify on the Media Center PC, so now playing Glee soundtracks through the Naim/Linn combo. Bathos much?
• Mon, 19:20: @edbott @maryjofoley Would love to be listening in to Andy Lees phone today: "Hello, is that you Peter?"
• Mon, 19:39: Google/Motorola - what it means for Google TV and WebM http://t.co/U9YPM00 Tip @techmeme
• Mon, 20:16: RT @andrewbrust: Looks like @BuildWindows8 is a good follow.

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It's Tuesday, it's August, and that means it's time for more steam photography as another Dorset Coast Express makes its weekly way out of Victoria and down to Weymouth.

Today we had a special guest locomotive on the line, in the shape of a Gresley A4 Pacific, LNER No. 4464 Bittern, in all its streamlined glory. Painted up as No. 4492 Dominion Of New Zealand, Bittern is currently a glorious blue, with red wheels - a fine specimen of a preserved locomotive, if not entirely the right type for the old Southern Railway.

9 am and I was on the old footbridge over the Putney cutting. I wasn't the only photographer there today, and as commuters wandered past we both set up ready for the train to arrive. 9.06 and we could here the sound of approaching steam, as Bittern pulled around the corner from Wandsworth Town and into the cutting.



Bittern enters the cutting, with a relatively short rake of coaches.



There's nothing quite like the streamlined curves of a Gresley A4.



And with a roar it rushed under the footbridge and off through the station.



And then the train was gone.

Tomorrow there's an additional steam service, with the recently built Peppercorn Tornado. I'm looking forward to that!