Taken at the weekend during our Sunday trek from the ferry building to the bridge and back. The bridge was still under a haze (as was most of the bay area), but I liked how it reflected in the small pool that is in the wildlife reserve section of Crissy Fields.
A little more progress this week on the exterior. Still not the final colour, nor is the roof tiled, but definitely getting closer. The rain last week didn’t seem to cause any problems, and there were people working inside when I wandered around to get this photo on Saturday afternoon.
On the way from Honolulu to Hanauma Bay (back in December 2004) we saw this rainbow over Hawaii Kai. This is another photo from my archives – I’ve made it to the end of 2004 now.
A sunset over the sheep at Ashdown Forest in south east England. This is the forest where the Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set, and there are many of the places from the stories marked around the area, such as the bridge where Christopher Robin, Pooh and his friends played Pooh Sticks.
Another of the photos from my archives, this one taken in Cambridge, England. I liked the combination of the bridge, its reflection and the punts neatly lined up along the river banks.
I’ve liked this particular photo ever since I took on a business trip to Taipei, Taiwan. It was just getting dark, and it had been raining most of the day so the lights were reflecting off the wet roads.
The long exposure makes the cars seem like just a blur as they move through the frame which contrasts so well with the stationary pedestrian.
Not a great photo, but I only had the cellphone with me today on my way home from the ferry terminal on my bike. I decided to take a detour through Bayport to see how far from the terminal our future home will be. Just as I got into the area though I saw that they were getting ready to pour foundations for some future phases and thought it would be nice to get a photo showing what is inside the concrete.
In the photo you can see the green clad steel cables that provide the tension on the concrete (they are fixed at one end, and tensioned once the concrete is almost cured). You can also see all the 3′ square black boxes that add the waffle to the slab.
Yahoo upgraded their beta webmail client at the end of last week, and I’ve been using it over the weekend on both my Linux machines and my PowerBook. It is trying to behave like a native email client and makes extensive use of AJAX tricks to achieve that. Mostly they pay off too, though it can be a little slow to respond at times.
The nice features are the split window style display, so you can see the email message subjects etc in the top half of the browser window, and the current email message in the lower portion. They also provide extensive keyboard shortcuts, so it feels very much like a native mail client (it would be nice if the option to not be reminded about them applied to all, rather than having to be selected for each operation though). Drag and drop of messages into folders is slick too (much simpler than the old drop down mechanism).
We dropped by our house to be earlier today to check on progress, and while we expected to see the dry wall going on inside the house, it was a pleasant surprise to see the first layer of the exterior finish had been applied ouside too.
Having all the doors and windows covered with polythene sheets made it impossible to see what was going on most of the interior, but the master bedroom french doors were ajar giving us a glimpse of fitted dry wall. Quite a change from two weeks ago!
Stepney appeared in a Thomas the Tank Engine story to promote Bluebell Railway. We saw Stepney at Bluebell during a visit home a few years back.