Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Great Fire of London



So, barely 3 months after being barred from our office by the police due to a murder at a bar on our road, we were again confined to availing ourselves with the power and WiFi of the amenable people at Pret in Finsbury Square. This time, the great fire of London, in the building opposite our front door. Good thing I'd taken my laptop home the the evening before...

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Flash photography!

Life is full of funny little incidents. This weekend, in the playground with the family, a woman I'd never met comes up to me and gives mer her digital camera. "Do you know how to work these things?" she asked. "I must have changed a setting by mistake because now whenever I press the button, it takes 2 photos instead of just one." she continued. Relishing a technical challenge, I went into the menu system, had a play, and at her suggestion took a random photo to see if I had worked the magic. We went into view mode and scrolled to see if I had changed the right settings. I had not. But when the picture didn't change I pressed the "next" button again to make sure. Which took me to the beginning of the album on the memory card. Which was a photo of my distressed maiden looking not so distressed but very much de-dressed!

And stories like this are like buses! Not that I was waiting for a virtual flasher, but you know what I mean. Anyway, not 4 days later and at work this time, I was talkin to a colleague. "Let's talk about how... OMG there's a naked person behind you..." she said. I turned around and admired the view through our window and into the window of the building on the far side of City Road. "Actually, maybe she's got a thong on" my colleague eventually continued, in an attempt to cover up, either metaphorically or telepathically, for the apostate opposite.