Holidays have rather disrupted my postings to this site and also My London Diary over the last couple of weeks – one spent in Glasgow and the second in Iona. It is possible to connect to the Internet in both places, but the hotel I stayed in on Renfrew St was in the 1980s and the Abbey on Iona medieval in terms of communication. Anyway I wanted a rest away from it all, though that didn’t stop me using a digital camera.
Given the low cost of CF cards at the moment, it’s hardly necessary to take a computer away on holiday, and the market for portable hard disk devices must have plummeted. I did in fact take my notebook, as I wanted to be able to show my presentation and work from Brasilia to some of the people I was to meet in Iona, but in future I’ll perhaps travel light with a few 8Gb cards.
Of course it is good to be able to see what you are doing on a larger scale than the camera display while your away – and to share them, and at around 3.5 lbs my notebook isn’t a huge weight to carry – and there are smaller, lighter models now.
I’ve still not had a good look at the holiday snaps, and many will be more of interest to family and friends than a wider audience, but I expect I’ll put at least a few on line. But my priority on getting home was to get the pictures from before I went away onto My London Diary (and deal with those 1500 or so waiting e-mails.)
The march forms up to go to Kingsnorth for the Climate Camp
The No New Coal Rally and March pictures are now available as well as those from the Hayling Island Carnival
