A slight deviation from photos of my recent trip home to the UK, this shot was taken from my balcony in Alameda in mid-December. Don’t see many sunsets like this in Alameda, but when they happen it sure puts on a good show. This is one of the better ones I’ve seen in the last year.
From the same beach as yesterday’s photo of NN241, this is one of the breakwaters stretching out into the English Channel at Eastbourne.
This small boat was sitting on one of the (pebble) beaches in Eastbourne, East Sussex. This beach was our first stop of a day sight seeing on the south coast; the boat was one of two on the beach – the other one will appear on the blog later in the week.
Came across Noah Grey’s photography site a few weeks ago, and while exploring there today I found a series of photos of autumn leaves. Since autumn leaves have been appearing on my site recently, I thought I’d provide a link to this series of excellent leaf photos.
His other series collections and the galleries are also worth spending some time in.
The final photo from my Japan trip at the end of last year; this is the sun setting over a Boeing 747 aircraft at Narita airport.
Thanks to Bayport_Resident for posting the prices from Saturday’s release in the Bayport discussion forums. My database has been updated with the new average prices, so the graph for the Cove series will now include this phase.
I wasn’t in the country for this release, so I don’t have any information about the attendance, but I did notice a followup posting to the price information stating that a couple of plan 6 homes were not sold. That’s the second time a lottery has finished with homes unsold – something that never happened in the early days (although the plan 6 homes did always seem harder to sell, based a lot I suspect on the lack of a real model for that plan).
A photo from a rainy Christmas day in Alameda. This leaf has been sitting on the garden area in front of my parking space for a while now and I have been meaning to stop and photograph it. This morning seemed like as good a time as any. Merry Christmas everybody 🙂
Akihabara is changing. Sure, the electronics stores are still there, including the amazing collection of small passageway stores under the railway lines just there at the station and the stores selling PC parts and duty free electronics. But there is a new game in town: entertainment. The stores along the main street now sell DVDs and video games. You need to venture down the side streets to find the hardcore electronics places now.
The other new thing is the French Maid cosplay cafe. I didn’t know about it until after I’d been this time, and I didn’t see any of them, but it seems that there is a definite transformation taking place.
Along my walk from Harajuku to Shibuya I passed through a complex that included the NHK broadcasting facilities and a large open area that would probably be called a county fairground in the US. There was an event going on that day with lion dancers on a small stage area, and drummers like the one in the photo all around the area. Of course, there were also the numerous food and beverage stalls that one would expect from any outdoor event like this, anywhere in the world, and plenty of people walking around watching.
So, for reasons I won’t go into, I needed to install the latest version of ActiveSync on my old Windows XP Home system. Seems that there is a problem though with InstallShield and SP2 on some systems. Rather than installing the software, it justs exits with an error about a wizard being interrupted. Should send it to Hogwarts I guess. What annoys me more than anything is that this is a Microsoft product, downloaded from their own website.
In an attempt to solve this I have tried uninstalling everything I’ve added recently, uninstalling SP2 (which was recommended by MS in one of the pages I found) and even a whole array of command line options for the setup tool. None of these work. Even worse, this has been a known problem for over a year now. How come software that is being released in the last few months by Microsoft is still doing this. Are they incapable of fixing errors in their own products? Of course not, they simply do not care.