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The “Oldest religious icon in America” is clearly a picture of a cat.

this is another shot that doesn’t look like it could have been taken in my garden in March. It’s grey outside now, but what a weekend.

The car park at work isn’t the best place to eat noodles, but on a day like today it was too much to resist spending a peaceful half hour out there listening to Janice Joplins greatest hits.

I can’t help feeling that maybe there are better uses for several hundred quids worth of digital camera, but I have found it invaluable when doing DIY on the house. I’m good at taking things apart, convinced that I can remember how to reassemble them later. At the weekend I took pictures of all the wiring I was about to undo, feed through holes in the ceiling and put back together and it saved me from hours of my usual problems.

Of course in the old days they used paper and pencil…

I took this on an early morning bike ride from the old railway bridge near the create centre in Bristol.

with a backdrop of blue sky and gorgeous sun. in march. in the uk. incredible.

for those of you who don’t know, amphetadesk is a program which allows you to subscribe to the Rich Site Summary (RSS) “feed” or “channel” of a website (if they have one, which they all should!), like the one on this site. It runs on your local machine as a server, periodically downloads local copies of the feeds you specify and generates an HTML web page for you to view the feed locally, or if it’s running on a network or internet node, remotely.

I noticed that my RSS feed isn’t 100% compatible with amphetadesk (and probably other readers) as my links show up as tags because they are encoded, so apologies to anyone seeing them like this via an RSS reader – I didn’t know until just now!

I spotted this little green beastie pretending to be a leaf in the garden at the weekend.

Excellent – the battery in my laptop is now stone dead and I never got more than an hour per charge out of it at the best of times – a new one would cost me over £100 so i’m not going to bother.

According to this news story Toshiba are working on an alcohol powered battery due for release in 2004. Hopefully I can hang on for one of these!

I am really chuffed to see that one of my photographs made it onto the BBC news site on the talking point | have your say | taken a good picture lately section.

My “dandelions” picture is number 10 in the “Your perspective on the world: 8-14 March 2003” gallery.

This makes up for all those years of failing to get one of my paintings on Tony Harts gallery as a kid!