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Another sign of spring is that it becomes absolutely necessary to test the range of wireless base stations. A couple of hundred metres gives marvellous pixellation, it’s like playing with Photoshop filters for the first time.


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2 thoughts on “the bay looks nice today”

  1. andrew stern

    Scott wrote, “As I walked down the street, Jill watched my image break up into something resembling a futurist painting.”

    More like a horror movie! Night of the Wireless Dead…

  2. lucie

    jeg ser du leker deg med bilder for tiden. spennende. jeg har nettopp skaffet meg ett digitalt kamera og gleder meg til  erverve meg kunnskap iforhold til det. i min blogg kan jeg ikke skrive ved siden av bildene, slik du gj¯r – men det har vel noe med programmet  gj¯re. Jeg m kanskje inn  forandre i html. Kanskje finner jeg ut av det.

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