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Accepting Commissions...

If anyone would like to have me work on a particular photographic assignment, please let me know via the Contact Form. So far, I have carried out a single assignment for a friend (portraits of their pet greyhound) which has been very well received (there's no point in spouting a load of BS at this point, I'd only get found out).

Since my experience is low, so the prices are too - I'm pretty much doing this to build a portfolio. Heck, if the assignment is interesting enough I may even do it for nothing... or at least just for expenses.

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Submitted by namcom on Mon, 01/10/2007 - 14:06.

Things that are Uplifting

Jack @ BristolWe went down to Bristol recently for my brother-in-law's wedding (my wife's brother for those who are trying to work it out), and we had a great time - seeing lots of people who we hadn't seen for a while. Our children were the only ones there for the whole day (there were a few present at the ceremony, but not for the meal/party), and it was also nice to have people tell us how well-behaved they were (phew!).

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Submitted by namcom on Mon, 15/09/2008 - 08:16.

You couldn't make this up...

From BBC News:

    "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century," Mr Bush said.

I'm sure there's a word for that... begins with 'H'. It's on the tip of my tongue...

... Don't tell me...

...

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Submitted by namcom on Fri, 15/08/2008 - 13:13.

BBC's 'Lab Rats' series...

It would appear, after doing a bit of a web-search, that BBC2's Lab Rats sitcom is not being very well received - apparently it isn't funny. Well, in an attempt to even the balance a little, I'll just go on record to say that I find it extremely funny (i.e. laugh-so-much-that-tears-run-down-my-face funny). The last one (the subterranean lab) was rather a slow builder I must admit, but the punchline was superb :-)

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Submitted by namcom on Wed, 13/08/2008 - 12:28.

Time Travelling

I've just finished re-reading Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, a book that I haven't read since English Literature O-Level. Reading the book again, I was confronted by scribbled notes in margins, little insights which must have been pointed out by my English teacher (I can't imagine having generated these nuggets myself); and I was transported back to those far off days of my youth...

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Submitted by namcom on Thu, 31/07/2008 - 13:04.

A different theatrical experience

Today we went to see York Theatre Royal's production of The Railway Children at the National Railway Museum.

It was fantastic! The staging was particularly novel, being centred around a length of railway track (the production was presented in one of the 'sheds' usually filled with locomotives); seating being arranged either side ('Platform 1' or 'Platform 2').

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Submitted by namcom on Sat, 26/07/2008 - 19:22.

Computing Hardware: an argument that won't go away

Why does the 'Mac vs. PC' argument still rumble on? Actually, given Apple's change to x86 hardware, it's more of a 'OS X vs. Windows' argument these days.

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Submitted by namcom on Tue, 22/07/2008 - 12:10.

I wonder...

... how many people who are currently bleating about their photographs being misappropriated from flickr are/were quite happy downloading music without paying for it?

Just asking.

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Submitted by namcom on Sun, 20/07/2008 - 16:27.

Suspicious behaviour...?

Suspicious #1As I was travelling home from my Grandad's funeral yesterday, I had to change trains at Stevenage. Now, being past 5 o'clock, the coffee-shop etc. was closed, so I had 15-20 minutes to kill on the platform.

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Submitted by namcom on Thu, 19/06/2008 - 10:21.

42

42.

The number of days you can be incarcerated whilst 'the powers that be' can decide which terrorist activities you may have been guilty of.

Dear UK: You are guilty, try and prove you're innocent.

If David Cameron promises to remove the current Police-state-in-construction, he's got my vote (and I have always voted Labour).

Speechless.

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Submitted by namcom on Wed, 11/06/2008 - 21:46.

Listening to...

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