or for me, page 125.

from lewism.org i get tagged.

1. pick up the nearset book (of at least 123 pages).
2. open the book on page 123.
3. find the fifth sentance.
4. post the next three sentences.
5. tag five people.

the book closest to me is a book on tokyo. called “tokyo: city and architecture” by livio sacchi.

page 123 is chapter notes, page 124 is an image and the excerpt from page 125 is as follows:

“in 1914 his (referring to frank lloyd wright) taliesin buildings burned down,with the well-known, dramatic implications for the architect’s private and personal life. the celebrated studio-home was gradually reconstructed and its plan certainly recalls the imperial villa of katsura, near kyoto, built with the supervision of the theosophist kobori ensho in the early 17th century, a sublime summa of classical japanese architecture and garden art.”

a note to myself is written on the inner sleeve - telling me where i got it (dublin) that i hoped it would be a good book. back then tokyo seemed a very far away place and it still does. one day.

i got an email the other day from ebay congratulating me on my second year with the site. the reason i signed up for the site was to complain about someone out there (in italy) who took one of my images, downloaded a sigur rós concert from us for free - burnt some cds, printed some cd booklets (with my picture on the cover) and put a listing on ebay - “1000 limited edition copies of (random concert) on sale for 20euros each”. the email wasnt a nice reminder that there are people out there who just like to make very easy money off something that i/we do for nothing.

here are some things that i am cheering myself up with:
eboy ipod touch skins on skinizi.com.
the armando iannucci show dvd on amazon.co.uk.
a save alafoss tshirt on klink.is.
waiting for a new power unit to come from la cie. (i really despise that external hard drives dont all use the same power cables).

ive about 8000 exported sms messages sitting on a hard drive in .vmg format (the format one gets when exporting sms from nokia pc suite). ive almost given up in being able to view those files in any decent format (like somethin close to the style of ichat or gmail)

in the mean time i have been using gysnc to sync the sms messages on my phone to that of my gmail account. every day it sends the messages to my gmail account and a message and the corresponding replies become a gmail conversation. fantastic stuff. the only shame is that plus nokia pc suite doesnt allow one to import the exported .vmg files back into the inbox or sent folder on your phone (only the useless “draft” folder).

it really is odd to think of the number of text messages out there, plus the number of .vmg files out there that there isnt a better way to take all those old messages and make them properly viewable. one application (abc amber nokia converter) just converts them - not maintaining any of the conversational context of the messages.

one of my favourite photos.

best three seconds in movie history.

also: who is he?

pixar is coming to tennispalatsi in late january.
i still really like this series from ilkka halso. (see also this post from 2005)

happy christmas to you (and everyone else i know) from me.
the documentary “dangerous days” (about “blade runner”) is just fantastic.
blog theme back to normal hopefully
life progressing with its usual ups and downs.

above is a screenshot from a chinese website called edushi - with the screenshot taken from the shanghai section of the site. looks astounding.

more information at digitalurban.com

messing with themes. my old theme wasnt compatible with wordpress 2,3 so im messing with a new theme and will mess with that to get the look i want. but thats for tomorrow