Don't Call Me Surely

New iTwin Video

2010-09-29T16:16:00.000+02:00

Great new device

2010-09-15T16:03:00.001+02:00

Check out www.itwin.com , pretty cool site. Your files, your storage, your way.

P1000578

2010-06-27T06:43:00.001+02:00

P1000578
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Dude

2009-10-27T10:28:00.001+01:00

Dude
Originally uploaded by MayankU

bookshelf

2009-07-22T16:46:00.003+02:00

Luke's Pot de depart

2009-07-16T18:41:00.003+02:00

Stuff for sale

2009-06-21T12:54:00.011+02:00

Luke in his natural state (playing with iPhone)

2009-05-23T18:13:00.001+02:00

Luke in his natural state (playing with iPhone)
Originally uploaded by stuclem

Secession Photo

2008-02-09T13:11:00.001+01:00

One of my photos has been chosen for the new Schmap Guide to Vienna.
See here:
http://www.schmap.com/vienna/entertainment_artgalleries/#p=100695&i=100695_16.jpg

new mask

2008-01-30T00:51:00.001+01:00

CIMG4372
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

At les 2 Alpes, Jan 2008

Les 2 Alpes

2008-01-30T00:50:00.001+01:00

CIMG4319
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

January 2008, at Les 2 Alpes. Clearest blue sky, whitest snow.

flower i photographed in geneva

2007-08-21T21:16:00.001+02:00

CIMG3410
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

animated music

2007-08-21T21:05:00.001+02:00

flower in geneva

2007-08-21T01:45:00.001+02:00

CIMG3427
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

check the set on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinkosubversive/sets/72157601572881114/

CianTunes

2007-08-06T16:33:00.001+02:00

CianTunes
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Cian's new songs are great

Dario eats Tizzy

2007-08-04T12:59:00.001+02:00

Dario eats Tizzy
Originally uploaded by abigaildonnelly

abigail's birthday

Gormley in London

2007-08-02T17:22:00.001+02:00

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Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Excellent Antony Gormley exhibition at the Hayward right now. And on many surrounding buildings....

single_orchid

2007-08-01T19:02:00.001+02:00

single_orchid
Originally uploaded by Rob Nield

erstwhile flatmate bob nield's orchid photo just too good

Hike near Grenoble

2007-07-25T12:53:00.001+02:00

daisies
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Check out Flickr for pics of a hike I did on Sunday with Unai Naxto and German near St Jean de Maurienne (between Grenoble and the Italian frontier)

Uganda Photos are now on Flickr

2007-07-25T01:57:00.001+02:00

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Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Our Uganda photos are now on Flickr

Google vids of Uganda

2007-07-24T16:54:00.000+02:00

I also have two Google videos, too big for YouTube.

Uganda YouTube playlist

2007-07-24T16:35:00.000+02:00

Don't Use Opodo

2007-06-25T19:03:00.000+02:00

Should you ever be tempted using the online travel company OPODO to book your travel, my advice is don't. STEER CLEAR. Particularly, avoid the French version of Opodo. I used it - and everything that could go wrong went wrong.

* I tried using the UK Opodo online flight reservation service - but after selecting all the data and clicking through all the various selections, when I finally went to pay, Opodo UK wouldn't let me use my French Visa card. This is because the initial flight departed from UK. So much for Visa international. Like, buying stuff abroad... I thought that was the idea, no? Every other company accepts Visa, in most Western countries. Not Opodo. Opodo allows you only to use yr credit card in the card's country of origin. Maybe that saves them like 30cents per booking. And loses them dozens of potential customers every day.

* So I had to use the French Opodo service. However, when I went to pay, the service would not let me buy full travel insurance, apparently because my journey did not begin in France. (Let's hope nothing goes wrong during my vacation).

* The Opodo web service auto-selected a route in which the initial flight was scheduled to land after the connecting flight was scheduled to depart. Idiots. I had to spend time and $$ on the phone to them to correct that.

* I later discovered Opodo was using an outdated route timetable, so even after having corrected the first error, they subsequently had to contact me several days later to inform me that my corrected schedule did not in fact apply and that I needed to get a different 1st-leg-rtn flight. That would be a 5am departure time, 3hrs drive from where I would be staying. (If i had known that, I wouldn't have chosen that route, dudes).

* Someone called Aurelie from Opodo France had informed me, back when I initially called to check, that my tickets were definitely eTickets. OK.
But the airline's website said that the airline in question (Kenyan) did not issue eTickets. I called Opodo to check how my tickets could be eTickets in that case. My question to Opodo about this was greeted with exasperation by my jaded French Opodo customer services assistant. "Bien sur", she assured me, in a pained tone, "of course they are eTickets. We told you already." A few days later I received a call from someone else at Opodo telling me my paper tickets were in the post. Yes, real tickets. (Are you havin a laugh? Is he havin a laugh?)

* I received an autogenerated email from Opodo a few days later telling me my paper tickets had been delivered by the French postal service. I went to check my post box- no tickets. I waited a few more days - still no tickets. A week more. Still nothing. I checked with my local post office. No tickets were ever delivered. Time was running out. I took a deep breath and called Opodo. A gruff, insistent and rather caustic gentleman at Opodo told me that I must have been lying or forgetting, and that I must have collected my tickets from my post box and subsequently lost them (!) and that if i wanted to travel, I would have to contact the airline and pay 160Euros for re-prints of the tickets. No amount of pleading would convince them that I was not lying.

SAVE YOURSELF WHILE YOU STILL CAN - DON'T USE OPODO!

Pacific mists at SF

2007-06-25T17:45:00.001+02:00

Pacific mists at SF
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Fog in SF is very John Carpenter

Trying not to look suspicious

2007-06-25T17:44:00.001+02:00

Trying not to look suspicious
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Trying not to look suspicious
...and failing.

Sun Microsystems at Santa Clara

2007-06-25T17:43:00.001+02:00

Sun Microsystems at Santa Clara
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

Nice offices. Purchased and landscaped back when Sun was posting large profits. Ahhh. Them were the days.

SF flowers

2007-06-25T17:41:00.001+02:00

SF flowers
Originally uploaded by donnersdonnelly

I love SF. Tout simplement

CocoeRosie in Paris

2007-04-15T17:14:00.000+02:00

The CocoRosie gig in Paris was excellent. I write a Last Fm review.
I'll post the pics on Flickr soon.

The Decemberists

2007-04-15T17:08:00.001+02:00

Why is Last FM playing so much of The Decemberists?
It's obvious that they're not simply autogenerated based on my tags. These guys are being plugged. Hmm.

Happy St Patrick's Day

2007-03-17T16:38:00.000+01:00

Many Irish people would've been pleased today, St Patrick's Day 2007. As they say in Ireland:
Dochas Linn Naomh Padraig,Aspal mor na hEireann. Ainm oirdhearc gleigeal, solas mor an tsaoil e.
But then the French robbed us.

2007-03-17T13:19:00.000+01:00

So here's a playlist I created using finetune. Hit the big green play button in the widget and turn up your sound. Enjoy.

If you get bored listening to a track, hold your mouse over the widget on the right, and a 'Next Track' option should appear. (You can go back, too).
If you decide you dislike my playlist, click the icon at the top left of the widget, choose Artist Radio and enter the name of the first band or singer you can think of. Then press enter. Or else tune into my Last FM station, below.

2007-03-17T13:03:00.000+01:00

At a local Grenoble ski station called Les 7 Laux. Weather not great but atmosphere terrific.
That's me, that is.

2007-03-17T12:51:00.000+01:00

My LastFM radio station. Rock on.