I’m having trouble coming up with decent titles to posts lately and the only thing that i can attribute it to is that my left knee is playing up and has some obsure link to the part of my brain that comes up with post titles. Tonights plan for New Years Eve is a simple [...]

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Thank you for those that posted kind comments after yesterday’s unfortuate news. I work up today hating the world and all its people and plotted its destruction. In other words situation normal. Tonight will be a trial but then it always seems to be. I’ve become a bit of the photography nut it seems. Yesterday [...]

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I bought one of these today. Its a Canon EOS 3000N which is a film camera with a 28/80 lens. While the idea of digital was temping, financial reality was such that I really couldn’t justify that kind of money on a camera. Strangely while i can operate the camera on manual settings ok, automatic [...]

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The signs are there, it just has to be coming up on new years once again and to be honest i have never really got the hang of new years anyway. There is always the angst of having someone to kiss at midnight and the making of resolutions that never get close to success. Its [...]

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For a while i have been wanting to get back into photography on a more serious basis although i don’t have a huge amount of money to spend on a camera and so today I went shopping for a new camera today, one thats better than the kodak digital camera i am using now that [...]

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I think i could get used to this sitting home on my arse as i’m enjoying this christmas break more than i expected. The cricket is on the tv, the dog is happily curled up on my bed the way only a dog can curl up. Occassionally he wakes up and has a look around [...]

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It appears that the Australian Federal government has come to its senses and realised that declaring most of the population criminals isn’t their brightest moment according to this News.com.au report. Right now despite the wide spread use of video records and an estimated 100,000 ipod owners any use of either to record tv shows or [...]

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There was a death in the family today and while its been coming for a while now, to be honest it lacked some dignity if there is such a thing in death, preferring to instead to linger and die slowly. Over the last month it experienced declining health, becoming tired quickly to the point sometimes [...]

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