Rebooked
Posted: Thu 21 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions Leave a comment »Fucking hell, talk about a leadtime. Monday 20th June is was the next available date for a re-test. Still, it’s booked now. Just two bloody months to wait…
Fuckety Cunt.
Posted: Wed 20 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions, Sweary 2 Comments »Buggered it up. Only four or five minor mistakes (you can get away with up to 15, apparently) but one serious, which fucked it up, as you’re not supposed to get one of them. Arse-spoons.
So – booking it again. Chuff. Another £40 up the swannee.
Crashing
Posted: Wed 20 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions Leave a comment »Updates will be made later today. For now though, I’m off doing stuff that’s part of the resolutions.
Regular readers will probably know what I’m waffling about. Or not.
Ouchy
Posted: Tue 19 April, 2005 Filed under: Health, Resolutions 3 Comments »Well, the ride home only took about 50 minutes. But shite I was knackered at the end of it. Still, I’ve proved I can do it now.
However, this morning all I can say is “Ow!”. There’s a couple of places where the saddle contacts with my body – no, not those bits – but bloody close – which hurt like a bastard. I knew they would, but still, Jesus Christ.
So today I’ve wimped out a bit, and rather than doing the full sixish miles each way, I’ve cheated and ridden to the train-station, used the train, then from trainstation to work. It’s still about two miles all told each way, but as Herself said last night, now I’ve proved to myself I can do it, and I’ve got a goal, I should perhaps take it a little bit easier than doing the full distance every day right from the start.
So yeah, I’m going to keep on doing it – but maybe just a little bit more sensibly than I did yesterday.
Oh, and yes, Anni, in relation to your comment, I was way optimistic on my timings. I know, I know. Definite faults in the calculations.
Another Step Forward
Posted: Thu 7 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions Leave a comment »One of the decisions I was going to be looking at as listed in the Resolutions page was whether I’d continue keeping my limited company active or not, and addressing which way I intended to head with it.
Some decisions still haven’t been finalised – such as whether any future work is done under a seperate company name as a “trading as” , or whether I continue to use the same company name as a “Trading As” without having all the guff of a proper Limited company. But one decision has been made, and has now been started – the dissolution of the Limited Company.
And I’ve just sent off the paperwork to get that sorted and dissolved. It’s a big step, I can’t deny – but I do feel that it’s the right one, and that this is the way it should go.
Driving Test
Posted: Thu 7 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions 4 Comments »Oh, for fuck’s sweet bleeding sake, I hate the DSA (Driving Standards Agency).
I’ve received a letter today, dated 5th April. (At least it wasn’t dated 1st April, I suppose) It basically says “We’ve cancelled your test on 12th April due to unforeseen circumstances. We’ve rebooked it for Wednesday 20th April instead. If this isn’t convenient, you need to tell us by 5th April, or you may lose you driving test fee”.
Which takes the piss, rather.
Cue a snotty phone call later, when my mood isn’t just to let rip with a tirade of vileness.
Flickr
Posted: Tue 5 April, 2005 Filed under: Photography, Resolutions, Thoughts 9 Comments »David asked why I didn’t bother using Flickr to display more of my photos. The simple answer is “because I never got round to it”.
The supplementary answer comes down to other things, including stuff to do with certain resolutions of mine. For a range of reasons, I’m not happy with passing copyright (or even potentially passing copyright) for my photos/images on to Flickr. Or anyone else, in fact. If I keep them hosted on d4d™ as I do now, then the copyright stays with me. Maybe that’s control-freak-esque, maybe it’s not. I don’t know. But it’s part of what I feel about Flickr, and the rest of the online photography stuff.
I rarely (if ever) leave the full-size images anywhere accessible, even on d4d™. They normally stay at 800×600, or perhaps 1024×768 if you’re lucky. Yes, they can be downloaded by people who look at d4d™, and that’s fine with me – I’ve posted them here, and it’s the only place they can be got from. I – for want of a better word – allow them to be used for that purpose from my site. With Flickr, they can be picked up by anyone, with no real link back to d4d™, other than user-name etc.
During 2005 I’m going to be seeking out some commercial opportunities and outlets for some of my photos. I’ve got some ideas already, and there’ll be more things happening. I just don’t want there to be any issues where anything I submit has been publicly available elsewhere previously. In some ways d4d™ suffers slightly for that – for instance this weekend there were a couple of photos that worked beautifully, but because I intend to see what I can do with them commercially,I’m not putting them here. There’s a balance to be drawn somewhere in all that, and I’m still working on managing to draw it.
So – I may try out Flickr, and indeed I’ve sorted myself out an account. But where I’ll use it, or what for, I don’t yet know. We’ll see. In the meantime though I’ll keep using the photos page on d4d™ for some, and this page for others.
Time will tell.