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Interesting article.
How to Be a Curious Photographer

Today we went down to Harpenden. Mum was having a party to celebrate here 80th birthday.

You can find more photographs here.

We went to Portmeirion on New Years Day and at the end of the day went down to Talybont (near Harlech) to watch the sunset.

All packed and checked out of the hotel. Last night I went to the Amish Market and got some lo-carb tortillas to bring home and then had a cobb salad for tea. Today it is just wrapping up and handing over for the next week as we have a weeks holiday coming up - Maria is going on a painting course near David Bellamy and I’m going along as a non-painting partner. I will take some pictures and post them up here. Robert is flying across the Irish sea today to visit Claire for the weekend so we are all travelling.

Well another evening shopping, went across to Battery Park City and visted both of the Gristedes and also JJ’s. I was tempted by the wonderful smell coming from Samanthas but decided to keep on the diet. I managed to get a pack of linguini, five packs of spaghetti, six packs of elbows and finally three bottles of chocolate sauce for Robert. I aso got the most important part - ten bars of Godiva chocolate. I think that’s about it for the shopping as I’m now up to my duty free allowance.
It gets dark here about 7:00pm so I have seen some lovely sunsets.

Spent most of the day wrestling with a knotty technical problem - got quite frustrated and finally found out that the documentation was wrong (good ole Microsoft). Still it works now so tomorrow is going to be spent writing it all up. I’m looking forward to getting home on Saturday - hotels can get a bit lonely.

Woke up this morning bright and early (5:00 am) and watched the dawn - lovely clear day. Apparently we’re going to have a warm day today - high about 78 degrees F.
Around 7:00 I noticed a lot of police cars gathering along a street - all with flashing lights etc. and half an hour later they all switched on their sirens and left - quite a sight, I assume they were giving someone a reception.

Walking on the way to work I saw this truck - American trucks have style.

I have lots of meetings etc. scheduled for today (starting very soon) but I’m hoping to get out at lunch time and go uptown for some shopping. I need to get some slippers and phone charm braids for Claire.

Well I’ve finally decided to get this blog going. I’m in New York again and staying at the Millenium Hilton overlooking the World Trade site (Ground Zero). I stayed here back in May 2004 and so I thought it would be interesting to see how the site was progressing. Here is the site in May 2004:

and here is the site in September 2005:

As you can see there is not a lot of difference - some tidying up in the top right corner and thats about it.