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It was so nice of the President of Nigeria to think about me.   Having just come out of hospital after serious heart problems he, nonetheless, had time to get one of his staff to write to me personally saying…

” …I have been instructed by the President to release the sum of US$7.5 Million (Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to you….”.  

Such a nice person and so generous with his country’s money.  Thank you Mr President.  All I have to do is sending him all my details and the money is mine.  What a generous offer!

It’s a while since I received one of these ridicules scam emails.  Do people still fall foul of these things?  One can only assume that enough do for the criminals to keep sending them out in their millions.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

I’ve just posted a blog entry to Posterous with a photograph and this should have been posted to my blogs, Flickr and facebook.  However, facebook stripped out all the text and just posted the photo.  I have to watch this.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

The pace of the digital revolution is increasing every day.  It seems just like yesterday that CD were the latest greatest thing and now – well I am getting rid of my collection – replaced by iTunes/POD/Phone.

For those of us of a certain age I can still remember the first demo of CD technology on Tomorrows World – it was amazing they could smear jam over the little disk, scrape it off and then the disk would still produce the music again.  Now this is something you could never do with LP.  Of course what they didn’t say was that the sound from a CD would be inferior to the LP but this was the latest and greatest and lest be honest they were very good – but we move on.

And now we are moving into a cloud world.   I am thinking about visiting the States, the first time in 3 years, and now I am concerned about whether I will have the same 3G coverage as I do at home (I think the answer is no but that is another story).  I must keep connected to the cloud at all costs.  I now blog, share content cruise the highways and byways of the cloud and I see this as a right rather than a privilege.  It effects where I stay, does the hotel have wi.fi ? is now a very important consideration.  I must keep contact with the cloud.  

I say I but my wife is the same.  We text, browse and consume things through the cloud.  The next will be tweeting – more of this next week I feel.   In short life moves on and, in the first world, at an ever increasing pace.  An yet some things are not better because of this just different.   What next?
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

These are experiments with the iPhone – just what type of photograph can you make with an iPhone.   Should be an interesting project
 

 Things are getting a little better.  I seem to have found a way of drawing noses a little better.  The trick – practice, practice and practice again.  The encouraging thing is that the more I practice I can see improvements everyday.  Strange that.

You know what it is like – there is just something that you want to get right but just can’t.  You practice and practice and nothings seems to go right.  Well at the moment that’s me an noses.  

I know this sounds strange but I have been drawing faces for the last fortnight and slowly they have been getting better but now I have hit a wall – or should that be a nose.  I just don’t seem to be able to get noses right – try as I can they just come out all strange.    This is really frustrating and when you are sketching a person it is important.   I have no problems with noses in profile but when the person is facing me it becomes very difficult.  I guess this is part of the frustration of learning a new skill and no doubt I will master it but just at the moment all I want to do is punch someone’s nose – probably mine.   No wonder Van Gogh  cut his ear off – at least he could draw a nose.