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I had a quiet weekend, nothing worth writing about. Did very little outside the apartment, though did nip out yesterday to the mall and failed to get photo albums. I must check WalMart, they have lots. I think i've probably exceeded my own personal record for trip photos printed this time around. My guesstimate is about 350 from Amsterdam, Open Air musuem, Brussels and Bruges and another 150 or so from Eyam, Lyme Hall, Wetlands trust and various others from around Manchester and London. Most are mine, but i did print off some of Graham's as well where he had the better shot and i didn't print everything that i took, either but there were just so many new places that we went and we got a lot of great shots. It's very difficult to pick just a few.

I still like prints and i still put trip pictures especially in album and the album has to reflect all the things we did and saw, not just one or two pictures from each. I gotta say though, printing all those photos plus about 50 or 60 personal ones from my birthday and the Michael LeVell event with shipping still only cost me a little over 80 dollars. I can remember getting 13 or 14 rolls of film developed back in the day for more than that. I would routinely take that many photos on a trip or more and would get double prints if i was traveling with a friend and we'd share. That means my albums from those trips probably have just as many photos in them as this one is going to, i suppose.

I probably do take more digital photos than i used to with the film because you have to pay to have film developed, don't you and so you do try to conserve a bit although i was never all that good at conserving lol! I really tried to reign myself in this time, to see more instead of taking photos but it's just so damn hard! I see so many things i want to remember about a new place. Oh stuff it. It is what it is, isn't it :))) Photos are my souvenirs. One thing i want to try to do a bit more is take digital video. I was taking a series of photos to put a panorama together of the big square in Brussels and i never even thought of taking a video of it. That would have been so much better to get a feel for the magnitude of it all, especially at night with it all lit up!

Right.
It's the first of June and the sun is out.
Onward and upward!

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It's a Monday kind of day when the milk comes out in chunks. The up side to this is (yes, there is an up side), the chunks go straight to the bottom of the cup and you can siphon off the top half into another cup because the milk hasn't distributed through the tea.

Seen in a shop window: purses (handbags) that look like 1. A shiny black patent leather laced up corset, an outline of a bat, a black coffin shape with bright red templar cross on it, bags with bright red roses and smiling skulls.

And for programmers and techical geeks everywhere, i offer you the following theories and laws, most of them true:

Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
Bilb's Laws of Unreliability:
1. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
2. Any system that depends upon human reliablity is unreliable.
3. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
4. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probably cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: there's always one more bug. (koff. True)

Troutman's Postulate (which seems to have been written some time ago)
1. Profanity is the one language understood by all programmers. (*koff*)
2. Not until a program has been in production for six months will the most harmful error be discovered.
3. Job control cards (!) that positively cannot be arranged in improper order, will be. (I haven't used these for years!!!!)
4. Interchangeable tapes won't. (we do use tapes for server backup, I think)
5. If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it. (Oh god yes)
6. If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.

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