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London Chronicles

The Life in our new city: London!

Fire in Camden Town!

The reports, yesterday, came slow. Camden Market, one of the most visited places in London, was on fire. I was there some weeks ago, wandering through the stalls and watching everything as it was a new world. This morning I watched the reportage on the BBC website. I hope the damages are limited, because the [...]

Canon EOS 40D

During last months I have decided to follow my dreams, trying to do what I want to do, and in this case is becoming a better photographer. My old Olympus Evolt E500 served me well, but it was time to go for a better camera, and the decision involved a lot of parameters, lenses included. [...]

Bank Station and escalator refurbishment: a complete failure

I have sent my complaint to Transport for London one week ago, lamenting the delays in finishing the refurbishment work on a specific escalator. They answer that escalator refurbishment is a need… clearly they did not understand that I was referring to the month of delay!
Today the last joke has been that the refurbished escalator [...]

BarCampLondon3 AKA why I Love Google

The BarCampLondon3 was my second BarCamp, but it has been the best so far. This one will be remembered as the one that made me fell in Love with Google! In these years I have seen a lot of HQs around London, but no one can win a comparison with the one we have been [...]

BarCampLondon3: tickets available… and reserved

At the beginning of this week I lost the first wave of tickets for the BarCampLondon3, but today I was wandering on the barcamp website and I was able to reserve my ticket.
This will be my second BarCamp, but I am curious like it was my first one. I will step in the room of [...]

Portraiting strangers: the first failures

Today, after some cloudy day, the sun was quite good for some photos. During my lunch break I took my camera and I went to Trafalgar Square. Even if the sun was high, the light was not bad at all. Trafalgar is always full of people and amongst them there are some who are not [...]

Barcamp London 3 Announced

The third edition of the Barcamp London has just been announced. It will be held in the Google HQ on the wekkend of the 24th and 25th of November 2007!
This February my  first Barcamp has been quite good, now I am looking forward to participating to this one… hopefully I will be able to grab [...]

My portrait month

Some time ago I decided I would have improved my photography skills. I did not know where to start nor which were my weakest points. For a long time I kept remembering myself that I should have done something, but there was always something more important (sometimes the urge to conquer the world, some others [...]

We’re out of the Tube strike!

A good news, this morning, was that the strike of the tube union workers was over. This morning the nine lines were still suspended, but everything is returning to the normality. It seems that when the guarantees were written on paper, the union called the end of the strike.
Bob Crow, head of the RMT union, [...]

The Tube workers on strike

Yesterday when the strike started the problems begun. The bus I thought I could have taken was not crowded, neither was packed: it was exploding! Luckily to get home I can use the Northern and the Jubilee, two of the three likes not affected by the strike. It is not an easy option, because if [...]

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