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First journal entry since Dec 31 2007, and first visit back since April 11 this year. Though I usually have at least one camera with me wherever I go, and take pictures at every opportunity I can find, unfortunately I seldom find the time to sit down and do much with them lately. Was it coincidence that I came back to find my message box bristling with precisely 1000 messages, or is that the max allowed by DevArt? I don't know, but it definitely means that I've a huge backlog to get on with.

It has been 364 days, and it only occurred to me just now ... Has anyone noticed a lack of anything James Bond-related this year? A James Bond festival of sorts? Agent Of The Year front covers on glossy magazines? Personally I've not heard of as much as a James Bond Lookalike contest, or even a Give Us Your Best James Bond Quote In A James Bond Voice contest on radio. There has, for crying out loud, not even been a James Bond MOVIE out this year! What's wrong with this picture? It's the year two-thousand-and-seven, isn't it? Two-double-oh-seven. Did the British movie industry completely miss, or ignore, the symbolic value of this number, a

I'm a bit sad, really. I've had this camera for the last few years, four and a half in all, taken thousand of photos with it, and now it has gone and retired itself. It just won't take any more pictures. It's a Canon IXUS 400 which I got in June 2003, and it has been with me just about everywhere I've been since. And I've taken pictures of just about everything I could find. The index number on the last shot I took with it, which was this last Christmas Eve, is 23790, and it decided to quit while I was trying to take a photo of the cat sleeping underneath the Christmas tree only a couple of days later. I've no idea what's supposed to be wrong