February 24, 2007
flickr
My forays into the world of flickr began when Charlee reminded me to put up the photos from our holiday in Lloret de Mar last year in the photo pool. Now I had resisted for a while going back to uploading my photos onto photo sharing websites since back in the day when I was using Sony's imagestation. Also, my photos for that holiday were already up on this website.
Sony's imagestation was great. Until someone pointed out to me that the reason for me getting unlimited space was the fact that I was giving away the copyright to my photos. Now, I don't know if that was true or not, but it certainly scared me into stopping. I'll be darned if I let someone take away my right to sell my 20,000 pictures of Ivan!
So then I got my own website, with it's own gallery. Even though it didn't have masses of space it was good for the purpose of sharing the photos I had taken with friends and family (and random strangers sent there by google.) Unfortunately this was at the expense of a lower resolution than I had taken them in.
Anyway, I gave in to Charlee to put up the photos on flickr, because it's nice to share and I hate it when people don't share their photos. I only got to upload about half the photos because of the upload limits, etc... Charlee suggested I get a pro account. What?!?!? Actually pay for something online?!?! Crazy woman... But then I started thinking, what if I lost all my photos in some freak hard disk crash?!?!? Who will back up my pictures for me?!?
So I gave in... $47.99 for 2 years of peace of mind... See you in 2 months when I have finished sorting out all my pictures!
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February 16, 2007
2 down, ? to go
So this morning I awoke, sans boyfriend to find that the conveniently placed humane mouse traps had actually worked after 3 days on the floor :O.
Wasn't too happy about this since it meant going up to Hyde Park to release the poor mouse before work, since I wasn't going to be home that evening and figured it was cruel to keep the poor mouse in a small cage with not much food. So off I went with the mouse trap in a cardboard box to keep the mouse relatively happy. I don't think this worked though since the bastard started jumping around the very small cage when I put the cage on the grass. I think it was trying to bite me through the bars or something.
There is something really beautiful about seeing a mouse running off into the park in the exact opposite direction from your home...
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February 6, 2007
Happy Birthday Ivan
My live-in geek turns 23 today. He just keeps getting older and older. If I don't watch out, he's going to catch up with me soon... ;)
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January 24, 2007
Back Safe and Sound (just about)
In case anyone was wondering and didn't yet know :)
Entries on my last two days of holiday will be posted once I'm recovered from the jetlag.
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January 20, 2007
Day 11: Flores
Woke up in Hacienda Tijax far too early as usual and went to have breakfast. Was scared by a huge spider that was hiding in the napkins, but that did not put me off tucking into the nicest plate of pancakes ever. Food in Guatemala is not great, so when it is, you really appreciate it.
This was the day that Mili and I were separating, so it was a bit depressing making separate reservations in hotels and taking different buses in opposite directions. My bus left a lot to be desired. I decided to save some time and money and go on the 2nd class bus to Flores, it's a 4 hour trip and there was standing room only!!!
About an hour into the trip we got stopped by the police and had to get off. Luckily when we got back on I managed to get to the back of the bus and sit on some steps. I eventually got a seat after approximately 1h30. Got talking to some guys from Honduras, they seemed quite depressed about their experience in Guatemala so far. It was really sad, they were coming here to look for work and it seemed like they'd been taken advantage of. The guy I was talking to said the food was bad and that they had taken all their money (I don't know who "they" was but I can believe they did) He was also talking about how it was as corrupt as Honduras, and he'd only been here one day!! The two Hondurans I spoke to said they wanted to go to Spain... I didn't know how to tell them that it would probably not be easy.
Arrived in Flores at around 3pm. Got a taxi to my hotel (Hospedaje Doña Goya) and inmeadiately went out to sort out my tour to Tikal. Managed to get the last seat on the plane to Guatemala. Phew. That is it up until now. Should go back to the hotel and lie down and eat. Incredibly tired.
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