Alex – Page 37 – The Wired Jester

Paradise

Boats at anchor Originally uploaded by Sifter. I am back from the amazing Caribbean island of Mustique. Full photo gallery is at Flickr, here. More later… original

Shopping & Escaping Originally uploaded by Sifter. Now that I have a Flick Pro account, I’ve been digging through my digital photos to upload more pictures. This on the left is from a trip to Toronto this time last year. One of the most interesting things about Flickr is the tag system – lots ofContinue reading “Links”

Graves, Rust, Ivy and Flowers

Graves, Rust, Ivy and Flowers Originally uploaded by Sifter. Last weekend a friend and I took a trip to Highgate Cemetery. It’s just up the road from me, and is probably London’s most famous graveyard. Many of the graves are Victorian, so there are plenty of angels about. It’s also the final home of KarlContinue reading “Graves, Rust, Ivy and Flowers”

Learning to insert contact lenses

50 people see an eye Originally uploaded by brevity. Current “High Scores”: Right Eye: 8 minutes. Left Eye: Gave up after 17 minutes, went to make dinner. (Removed Right Eye lens in about 10 seconds, went back to glasses in case wearing one lens lead to a culinary accident…) The picture, while reflecting the stateContinue reading “Learning to insert contact lenses”

Here Comes The Sun (…

Cherry Blossom Originally uploaded by Sifter. …you’ll have to sing the lovely George Harrison guitar part yourself). I think it’s safe to say that winter is gone for this year. Contrary to what oyu might expect from me, these aren’t the famous “hanami” cherry blossoms of Japan, but some very fetching ones I saw inContinue reading “Here Comes The Sun (…”

A Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month

It’s the 1st, which means my bandwidth quota gets re-set. Last month I was nearly 40% over, and all because I had lots of people looking at my photos. Now, I like people looking at the photos, but not when I get hundreds of e-mails from BlogHarbor about bandwidth. So I’m moving photo hosting toContinue reading “A Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month”

And then there was an answer

“Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants, this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen” – Thomas Merton So one of the reasons the “British Rain” pic (see below) was getting so many hits is that a US Catholic magazine (!)Continue reading “And then there was an answer”

Something I can’t figure out

Help me! According to my stats, this picture below (“British Rain… Arguably the best in the world”) is the most popular article on this site by a mile. Why is this? Who’s linking to it? My stats program can’t help me on that. It’s as vague as a magic 8 ball…

Took the words right out of my mouth

Was given Edward Gorey’s The Unstrung Harp as a present recently. It’s very funny and sinister. And it pretty much sums up where I am up to right now… original

A New Year Message: “Contemplation, Loveful”

A pinch and a punch for the first of the month! Same to your modem, as my bandwidth counter has now reset, and I can update properly again. Working on another new post about Japan, but in lieu of that, a photo I snapped after doing the washing when we got back home, and it’sContinue reading “A New Year Message: “Contemplation, Loveful””