According to the inflight flight path on channel 99, I’m over Bhopal India right now. Yeah, got to play with a free 30min trial of Boeing’s Connexion service on Singapore Airlines. On my way to Paris today and trying to time my sleep so that I can go to the office today and pretend to work.
The signup is easy enough, almost like any other wifi service (by the way the AP SSID is Connexion1, and since I only have a 802.11b system, I dont know if it works in 802.11g). You enter your given free login and password, and then key in some personal details (just the name and email address, and forced to read some EULA crap).
Internet onboard is surprisingly fast. I was expecting something like a second more lag since we’re probably going thru some satellite up there, but its faster than any land line ADSL crap they have in Malaysia. Ok, probably only have 20 more mins left so let me surf.
Just left Kuala Lumpur this evening on my way to Paris for a year. Stopping by Singapore for a few days first. The checked in luggage was almost at thelimit. Although the official limit is 20kg per person in this part of the world, the rule of thumb is that if you dont exceed 30kg each you’re safe. The only problem is I have a backpack full of photographic equipment and a trolley with two notebooks (one powerbook for personal use and a Dell for the office) so the hand carry is already at least 20kg!
I’ve created a new category called France, which I hope to document the 1 year in France starting next week… If everything according to plan.
Looked at my backlog of b&w films to be developed and realised I’ve got a roll of Pan F (yeah, not Pan F) that’s probably expired a year ago and not kept in the fridge to develop. I only have Rodinal in stock now, and usually at 1+50 dilution. The spec for Pan F+ is 11min at 20C, so I assume that Pan F is the same. Read somewhere that expired film needs to be developed a little more, but can’t seem to find that page. So this is going to be a major brute force method. Will see how it turns out.
My lens library has grown a little with the addition of this AIS zoom lens bought from Fujiya Camera in Tokyo. Thanks to a friend that had to bring it back. Cheap price considering that the optics are supposed to be quite good, and its a constant f3.5 max aperture. The only thing about it is the one touch zoom is a little loose, but I’ll try and find some time to send it for servicing to tighten it one of these days.
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