BlindFish Ideas

Still Experimenting with HDR photography. Its difficult without a tripod. Made two new images from photos taken with my Sony DSLR they are both from a trip to The Great Wall and I used 3 images and GIMP to process them into a HDR photo. I have also used my phone HDR app a few times around Beijing. In China it is hard to access my blog (im updating via emails) so I may not respond to comments for a few more weeks.

Tonight we went out to eat at a local resturant in the backstreets of Beijing. After my initial reaction against walking down strange dark alleys we found this Resturant (recomended by a local) pretty awesome. It had a buzzing local atmosphere and had everything from dog, dear, donkey, rabbit and every type of fish on the menu. Crazy little cheap place. I hope I can go again and try something new.

We are still suffering with a bit of jet lag (I didn't get to sleep until 4am Michelle was still awake at 6am) so we have had a gentle tourist day visiting Beijing Zoo and Aquarium. It was our first time on the Beijing subway system and it wasn't that bad as all signs where in English as well as Chinese. Although coming back in rush hour was a bit of an experience. But for 20p for any trip to any station in the city we cant complain. We are already sorting out further days making good use of this incredibly cheap and pretty simple transport. The Zoo was amazing very spacious with lots of gardens between exhibits (although some cages could have been a bit bigger) but over all a very nice zoo with animals that are rare in the UK. We saw our first Giant Panda's here. They also had some fantastic lions and a white Bengal tiger. The aquarium was a more modern development of the zoo and it was much bigger then the Cheshire Blue Planet (although Beijing didn't have any sharks ...

Blogging on my Kindle Keyboard 3G In two weeks i will be leaving sunny England to travel around South East Asia. i have bought a Kindle for reading but I have bought the Kindle Keyboard 3G. i bought this versiom for two reasons firstly so that i could have the mini keyboarde for writing notes which i enjoy doing (i wrote my degree dissertation on a mobile phone, I like small keyboards) and I wanted the free world wide 3G and the experimental browser. this means that I have to be patient because its not a fast machine or connection. But all around the world I will able to connect. use gmail, facebook, wtter and blogger. Its an amazing opportunity and combined with my solar powered charger this becomes a very robust world wide connection device. I think that the future of personal computers will go two ways. low powered e-ink devices for content storage display and creation. the second will be the role of implanted bio tech. Small little computers focused on social connect...