{"id":907,"date":"2003-11-19T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=907"},"modified":"2010-05-05T22:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:30:34","slug":"907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/907\/","title":{"rendered":"Daytrip to Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daytrip to Liverpool<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday I endured seven hours travelling for a meeting in Liverpool and managed to grab a few photos on the way home – I’ll slap them in the photo gallery<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n

Long time readers of this blog will recall the inner turmoil, gnashing of teeth and angst I went through trying to decide what camera to buy. Sadly, I’m still faffing over what to get.<\/p>\n

The Minolta A1<\/a> came very, very close a few weeks ago, but continuing reports of ‘hot pixels’, dodgy models and noise changed my mind.<\/p>\n

The truly fabulous Canon 300D DSLR<\/a> is a beaut of a camera but too bulky for my tastes – and the lack of a live LCD preview and swivelling lens means it’s definitely not for me.<\/p>\n

The Sony 828<\/a> continues to look mouth-wateringly tasty, but Sony keep messing about with the chuffing release date – it was supposed to be out now, but now there’s talk of late December or even next year. And I want a camera now!<\/strong><\/p>\n

After all this, I’m beginning to look longingly at the old Sony 717<\/a> as it continues to plummet down in price (it was \u00a3900 and now it’s down to \u00a3500)…..decisions! decisions!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile my web design book ‘Max Hits: designing successful websites’<\/a> has been republished at a soft back (no need to tell me about it, Mr Publisher!). Amazon are doing a groovy ‘Look inside the book’<\/a> feature.<\/p>\n

And now it’s the 200,000th best selling book in the US!! (I’ll hold the champagne for now).<\/p>\n

Finally: tonight’s the night when Wales take on Russia. We have to win to qualify for the European Championships so come on Wales!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cymru am byth!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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