It claims it’ll also upload pictures. Now this I’ve got to see…

Pretty impressive! (and these image formatting tools are certainly an improvement over Office 2003).

You can also tag your posts…the categories are all pulled down from the blog.

Okay, enough of the image effects already.

Well I’m impressed. It actually works. Now there’s no excuse not to post…

 

As it turns out, there is no actual Bill being put forward by the government. Mr Taylor is referring to

the ID cards proposed by various bodies which will serve to create an ‘uber class’ of photographer, and restrict the use of cameras by normal citizens.

The fact that there is no legislation in the pipeline has not prevented me from signing the petition. I have personally been harassed by security guards for taking photographs in the City of London with a tripod. It angered me that I was allowed to use my camera hand-held, or indeed to support it on a wall with a beanbag - but that the use of a tripod was prohibited. I believe that anyone should be allowed to take photographs of any public place - regardless of whether they use a tripod to steady the camera!

If you feel the same and you live in the UK then perhaps you should sign the petition too:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/

They do Neapolitan, wood-fired pizzas and you can order them by the metre! I highly recommend the eponymous “Firezza” pizza (Tomato, mozzarella, Italian spicy salami, wood-roasted aubergines, courgettes and cotto ham).

I’m in no way affiliated to the company - I just dig their product! 

Come on door bell! Ring!

My “visited countries” map now gets a huge splash of red.

Report/rumour 1:
07/07/2005 13:17 “apparently news 24 has said that a suicide bomber has been shot in Docklands”

Report/rumour 2:
07/07/2005 13:50:40 “apparently police shot a suicide bomber running into a building in canary wharf ”

Seems like the authorities are keeping quiet about these things - trying to avert hysteria.

I slept in a bit this morning because a drank a bit too much wine last night. When I finally got up there was no Northern line tube between Morden and Stockwell, so I decided to work from home.
Then the bombs started.

One of the bombs was at Moorgate station (UPDATE: it was actually between Liverpool Street and Aldgate, which is near Moorgate) - that’s my station where I get off every morning - right next to my office!! If I hadn’t had so much wine last night I might have woken up earlier and actually been there!! Just shows…wine is good for you!

I’ve just been watching the images on TV…a man covered in blood being given CPR…people covered in sheets…I’m so upset.

You gotta wonder how long it will be before the jokes start….”had a blast in London”, etc.

My heart goes out to the rest of London today.

Obviously, I’ve been perusing the country of my birth: Zimbabwe. It is interesting to note that the political boundaries of the country are quite evident just from the satellite images.

Geographical map of Zimbabwe and surrounding region.

Click the image to show the national boundaries.

I would like to say that the Zimbabwean people are not capable of genocide. I would like to say that only Mugabe and his cronies are evil, and that the rest of the population are well-intentioned people suffering under his tireless tyranny. But I fear that a sinister malignancy has been suffusing the minds of many Zimbabweans.

Yesterday I was speaking to someone on the ground in Harare. She has been active in the community, collecting blankets and clothing for the poor souls whose houses have been demolished by the governement. They managed to get a whole lorry full of supplies to these people, who are suffering without food or shelter in the biting Zimbabwean winter. But this was not a heart-warming story. When the lorry arrived, the police confiscated all the supplies, piled them up and burned them. They said that the people didn’t need help - the State would provide for them. If only that were true.

The malice behind such an act makes me nauseous.

Many of the newly-homeless have been carted off to the rural areas. But they are not being resettled. Some of them, I am told, are being held under guard on farms. They have minimal food, shelter and clothing, and no rights. This sounds suspiciously like what happened in the Darfur region of Sudan. In fact, the words “concentration camp” immediately leap to mind.

Perhaps it is just a matter of time before people are killed trying to escape from this captivity. From there, I fear it would be a very slippery slope down to all out genocide.