(8-365) I've Seen The Light

Day 8

Today I attended a company briefing at a local hotel. It included a 3 course lunch and 2 sessions of corporate figures and statistics. All very interesting, but I wanted a photo of me sitting amongst the crowds. In the end I didn't have the nerve to look that daft, so I took this one while I sitting down instead.

5th July 2010
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(7-365) Feet of a Gardener

Wow, I've actually managed a whole week with my 365. Only another 51 weeks to go 8-)
Today I weeded the front garden and cut the grass. My Brother-in-Law "Dopey" cut the back lawn for me. The least said about that the better!

4th July 2010
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(6-365) My, What Big Feet You Have!

It was the annual Summer Fair at my Sons school today. They had the usual stalls selling brick-a-brac, cakes, the tombola and various other activities. They also have this interesting mirror in the play ground. It's a shame it was so dirty though.


3rd July 2010
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(5-365) Grande Cappuccino with Caramel

Courtesy of Starbucks

My wife met me from work and took me out for a lunch time coffee. In hindsight it was a mistake to sit inside to drink it as it was very hot in the shopping centre. All too quickly it was time to return to work, but my wife met me after work and we travelled home together.

Did I mention that it's "Dress Down Friday"?

2nd July 2010
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(4-365) Standing Room Only ... Again

Today my morning train was short of a few carriages, which meant that it was rather full and there were no seats. At least we didn't have to play Sardines.


Those hectic evenings and late night organising my Father-in-Laws funeral are catching up with me. I could have done with a little snooze on the train. Hay ho, such is life.

1st July 2010
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(3-365) Time For Tea

I did have a great idea for today's photo, but unfortunately everyday life got in the way. That idea will have to wait for another day. The idea for this photo came to me while making tea at work this morning, but I felt a bit daft trying to take it with all my colleagues around. In the end I did this at home. As a big tea drinker, I'm sure this will be a recurring theme in my 365.


It's been a busy old day. I managed to catch up with most of my work backlog today. I'm still behind, but not as much as yesterday. A step in the right direction I think.

30th June 2010
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(2-365) Return To Work

My Father-in-Law died last Thursday and things have been completely manic since then and I took some time off work at short notice. I have today returned to work and the work has piled up in my absence 8-(


29th June 2010
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(1-365) Life Begins at 40

This is the start of my journey into my 40th year and it seems like a good time to start my 365. Will I gain enlightenment or will it make me self-obsessed? Only time will tell.


28th June 2010
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Flickr 365 Group

To celebrate my 40th year, I started a 365 project on Flickr.com

The idea behind the project is to take a self portrait of yourself everyday for a year. The rules are quite simple.

• At least some part of you must be in the photo

• You must take the photo yourself or if this is not practical, you can ask someone else to fire the shutter for you, provided you set up the scene yourself.

It’s quite simple really and I use mine to tell the world what I’ve been upto. I plan to copy the posts here to my blog as well for no better reason then to promote myself and my photography. You never know, it my even encourage me to blog about other stuff more often too 8-)

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Ada-ware Ate My Hard Drive

I was running some PC admin software on my computer last night and noticed that it seemed very interested in the contents of one particular directory. The directory in question was:

Documents and Setting/user/local files/temp

The program, CC Cleaner, failed to do anything with the directory. I chose to look at it myself in more detail. What I found nearly knocked me of my chair. There were over 65,000 .tmp files in there, totalling just over 17GB of space 8-s

Being .tmp file I knew I could just blow them away, which would free up all that waisted space. However, Windows XP couldn't cope with deleting 65k files in one hit and promptly threw it's legs in the air. I ended up clearing them out in batches on 2000 at a time. Took me ages it did.

But what had caused it? I googled the file name "adannnn.tmp", nnnn was a unique number for each file. It turns out that it was caused by Ada-ware, an anti spyware program I use. Every time MS Outlook (my email program) downloads emails, an Ada-ware plugin scans them & produces lots of .tmp files. It should delete these files when it's done, but quite obviously it isn't!

I tested it, and in a 20 sec period it produced over 1000 of these .tmp files.

The solution was simple. Disable the plugin, which I did and all is now well 8-)

I just hope it stays that way!

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