Blogging about tweeting

This film is talking about the power of tweeting. So I thought it would be only fair to take a quick photo and then include it in my blog.

I'm on line at: www.flickr.com/photos/guthlac http://simonmarchini.blogspot.com www.simonmarchini.co.uk I hope you enjoy

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6 months Old

I have just noticed that this blog is 6 months old - where did that time go?   It has been an eventful last 6 months and as I look through the entries I realise how things change quickly.  When I started I was still full of the joys of the MA course and the thought of having a photograph selected for an international exhibition was just a pipe dream.  If this is the way the next 6 months goes then I can't wait.  However, given my life nothing works out the way I think it might so, as they say, watch this space.

iPhone Update

I was sitting the hospital waiting room yesterday wondering what to do.  I know, I thought, I will buy a game to keep me going.   No problem.  Even over the 3G network this downloaded  surprisingly quickly - only problem was I couldn't be bothered to learning the new instructions how to play the game.  What a clot.

So what else to do?   I know I'll write a blog entry.  No problem logging in.  Even managed to write the heading but that was it.  For reasons best know  to other people could I make the machine recognise that I could write in the main text part of the blogger interface.    Not a huge problem and it may well be another case of user error. 

What an idiot

Well it is official.  I am an idiot.  Those of you who know won't find this too much of a revelation but it is true.   I have just reread the the two entries I made yesterday and they were almost identical - well at least when discussing making new photographs.  Sorry.  In mitigation I was so happy to be making photographs again that I guess this overcame my editing skills.

The blogosphere - its all too confusing to me

Lost in the Fog

I've just spent an hour or so trying to workout a better way of navigating the blogosphere.  I am failing badly!   I am not sure whether it is my age or what but every corner I turn seems to lead to another dead end (Cliche alert!)

It all started with this morning's paper.  I have been thinking about finding out a bit more on the subject of blogs and blogging.  I find this very addictive even though I have no idea how many people are reading this stuff.  I am wondering off the point.   The paper.   Well according to the paper it is a very simple thing to navigate and get set up.  Not for me it isn't.   I am blundering around not really coming up with anything that really makes my boat rock.   One of the recommendations from the article was to use Firefox.  

Now I used to be a keen Firefoxer but not anymore.  I love the Safari interface compared to Firefox - it looks much slicker and well developed.  I know that many of the sites are not optimised to run on Safari - when this happen I always copy the link into IE, which is the default browser for any site.  If something doesn't run in IE then the site is at fault not you.

I'm wondering again.   So what to do?  How should I try and resolve this problem?  I think the way forward is probably the best advice I have ever been given.  Do nothing.  This sounds like a cop out and in a way it is.  However, at least you can't make matters worse by continual tinkering and in many cases a solution becomes apparent.  Not very proactive I know but it does work.

Having just reread this I am not sure it is worth publishing.  However, I am addicted to bogging and so I will publish - well anything.

Interest from further afield

I always assumed that the main readers of this random collection of thoughts about the passage of my life were fellow students on my course and assorted friends and family.   It seems that I have started making very small strides the world beyond.  Over the pas week I have had comments from Edar Vazquez and an anonymous blog from the Mainstone Press.  May I say hello and welcome and your comments about Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash and my photography.   I wonder how far further this will go?   Only time will tell.  Now if only I could work out how they found my blog in the first place.  Perhaps if they read this they might like to leave a comment to let me know.