On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:22:03 +0100, Sarah Eggleston
<sarah.eggleston1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Alan Brand wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:49:16 +0100, Sarah Eggleston
>> <sarah.eggleston1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Weelll... I was in India until the beginning of March, then in
>>>Switzerland for 2 weeks, and I have been in a very strange parallel
>>>universe for the last 3 weeks. One where there was no internet at home
>>>or car at all. Is that a good enough excuse?
>>
>>
>> Welcome back, oh svelte one.
>>
>Thanks.
>
>> While I'm not (totally) paranoid, I'm just not willing to join the
>> lemmings, so I'd very much like to receive the Reader's Digest trip
>> re****t, plus any embarrassing photos that you don't want t make public
>> but that might cheer up a dirty old man such as myself.
>>
>I'll think about it. In the meantime, here's a summary I wrote...
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sarah.eggleston1/india_2007/figures.html
>
Very edifying, I'm sure that Ken will find some obscure significance
in many of those numbers.
>As for photos, the summary version of the trip is 258 (out of 2000-odd
>total), summing to about half a gig of jpgs, of course a zip of the set
>is equally unmanageable. I will probably go through and resize them to
>more internet-friendly sizes, then can upload to ntlworld or photobox or
>something. But it may take some time! I've already spent ages sorting
>out the reduced set and fixing the contrast. I accidently spent the
>first 4 months with my camera set on maximum exposure.
Why is it that it always takes longer to process the photo album than
it did to do the trip?
>In a side rant, that was because my camera is a point and shoot with
>aspirations, so it has a short menu system, but the exposure setting
>isn't there! I spent ages looking. Turns out, it's on one of the arrow
>buttons during normal viewing - dead handy once you *know*, but
>irritatingly absent when you don't. I think Andy upped it to max rather
>than normal the last time he played with it. <mutter>
(a) RTFM, (b) Men!
>Oops, I've been getting bogged down in paperwork (phone, broadband, car,
>electricity/gas, council tax, water, tv licence, I'm sure I've forgotten
>a couple), which probably shows! One of the lovely things about
>travelling is that you don't have to worry about any of that lot.
Welcome back ot the real world.
--
AlanB, very jealous of the trip girl
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