Hmm, interesting. I walked away from PBase for a while after I got a bit sick of the forums. Discussion there tends to be generated from one of three camps; those who believe that PBase never does anything right and that anyone who can't see that is just an apologist, those who believe that it never does anything wrong and that anyone who can't see that is just a whinger... and those of us who see ingrained flaws that really need to be addressed and wish PBase management would, but recognise that the site still has many merits and virtues.

We tend to get slammed in the middle. Some of us slam back when we do but to be honest, it gets old. And at some point it's time to walk away and say "sod it".

However... I thought that I was still keeping up with a minimum of one picture per week. Yet as of the time of writing (and this may change), I can't find anything between the 5th and the 22nd of September. Of course the missing ones could be on the 300D, or the Olympus, or... probably not on this one.

This is the first shot taken from my new Samsung Galaxy S2 mobile 'phone. The chances of me regularly using it as camera are pretty much zero given what I've said about mobile 'phone cameras previously (and the image quality will doubtless degrade over time as the lens accumulates muck and scratches), but since part of the purpose of a PAD is to document happenings over the course of a year I thought it appropriate for me to commemorate the acquisition of my first Android 'phone, complete with, at last, internet access. (My old one had the capability, but I was on a prepaid plan with no data access. I've now skipped to a post-paid plan complete with data. Welcome to the 21st Century, me.)

This is a railway station on the way to work of a morning. Yes, I'm still up for the Dawn Patrol. And while I like the starbursts for their novelty value, I'm not sure that I'd like them as a permanent fixture in my photography.

The 'phone can go back to doing what it does best; telephone calls, SMS's, apps and web browsing. Oh, and syncing with Outlook without going through the Cloud thanks to CompanionLink, something that non-Exchange users can't do natively in WP7 because of stupid design by Microsoft. In fact, my Android syncs more effectively than even my old Windows Mobile one did. Just lost another mobile customer, Ballmer.