The Road Of Excess...
February 26, 2008
 Leads To The Parish Of Coulsdon... With apologies to Blake.
In the midst of the birthday season and something has taken its revenge on me already! After the two day drinkfest that was Trev's party and the Carling Cup final [the less said about that the better I think] I set aside a day for recovery.
That started pretty well, emerging relatively unscathed if a bit tired. As the day wore on I felt worse, eventually succumbing to a nasty stomach bug and temperature. So here I am, daring myself to eat something and getting to know my new Viewty better. Need to recover in time for Kev's and Karol's birthdays later in the week. Underworld at the Roundhouse and Kew Grill respectively.
Above: Henry Moore At Kew
Back to that Viewty. Lovely to look at, annoying scrolling function makes browsing the web more awkward than it should be... and I'm not sure about the zoom. The scrollbar means you need to drag the page with finger or the pointy thing and very often results in you following a link rather than scrolling the page. The zoom isn't ideally placed, being around the actual lens although I think I'm managing it OK.
The touch screen takes some getting used to really and I do wonder if it will last the entire contract. But the screen is huge compared to most other phones I've seen. Just need to get a memory card for it now to try the camera and video in earnest.
The Google apps are a nice touch as I actually use those. It would have been nice to see the Notebooks and Calendar added though. Initially the battery drained really quickly but seems to be lasting a reasonable amount of time now. There are after all a lot of playthings here that will all be a drain.
Prior to the messy weekend it was all far more cultural. Taking in the excellent, if rather crowded, From Russia exhibit at the Royal Academy and the Henry Moore sculptures at Kew.
I've also been busying myself, trying to find every product I've mentioned on this blog on Amazon to add to my astore. I've done the books and I'm almost through the bands/albums. I'm then going to add any films or gadgets. It'll be up here as soon as I've finished but that link will take you to what's there so far.
Must mention these two links while I'm here. Garfield Minus Garfield and these parody guitar videos.
And talking of Coulsdon, as I was at the top, I'm just listening to a promo of Benga's excellent Diary Of An Afro Warrior [March 10 release date]. Benga being from Coulsdon like! An hour long dubstep journey this is one of those albums that has to be played end to end, like Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and SkinnyMan's Council Estate Of Mind.
Categories: Music, Art, London, Food & Drink, Film, Technology,
See my flickr set: Henry Moore At Kew
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