Corporate Imagery – McDonalds and Apple

Will Pate had some fun in McDonalds a few days ago. He took a picture of one of their McCafe cups and was verbally set-upon by a member of staff demanding that he delete the photo!
Reminds me of my visit to the Apple Store in Chicago. I took a few photos in there, but was nicely asked by a young guy to stop as photography wasn’t allowed inside the building. I still have the photo, would it hurt to post it here?
I’ll be back there in a few weeks so I may try again!

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!

I don’t get much spam any more. Greylisting keeps 99% of it out so when spam does get through it’s a surprise.
This morning I received the following from nitaigouranga@aol.com:

Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ….
That which brings the highest happiness!!

Looks like lots of other people received this mail too!
The Urban Dictionary has a humorous definition of gouranga:

A word that appears on motorway bridges in north west UK. It’s only purpose is to annoy drivers who are left with a nagging curiosity for the rest of their day until the next day when it ceases to become important ever again.

A New Pope

Pope Benedict XVI was elected earlier today. I can’t say it’s surprising they voted for Cardinal Ratzinger as he was easily the most well known of the cardinals. My initial impressions of the man aren’t good. He’s conservative and rigid, but hearing commentary through the day gives me pause for thought. I have heard that the media vilified him wrongly, so his Papacy may not be as clear-cut as people think.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ5

It arrived this morning! I ordered a DMC-Z5 from Pixmania.com last week and DHL delivered it this morning. Unfortunately, the manuals that came with it were in French, German, Italian and Dutch.. None of which I speak with sufficient proficiency to understand some of the finer points of this camera!

With some effort I found this page on the Panasonic website leading me to English language PDF manuals. This came as some surprise because another page said there was no online manual!

Now if only 7dayshop would get the Canon 20D sorted. Royal Mail possibly lost it but it’s the seller who’s responsible.

Later.. A small demo of the optical zoom:

I have two reasons for buying this camera:

  • I don’t want to drag thousands of Euro worth of camera into pubs where there’s lots of drinking and messing. I’m not crazy!
  • A huge number of birds visit my garden every day. It’s great to watch them closely with binoculors but if I can get in close with a camera too it’d be even better!