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As an avid photographer, I have had a few run ins with people who think that photography in public places is either illegal or gives them a right for general abuse.

Quoting Rogier van Bakel:

"To be clear, there is no law against taking photos — or video — in a public space. Not in the U.K., anyway. Not in the U.S., either. Know your rights, and assert them. Let them atrophy, and, like never-used muscles, they begin to disappear."

Below is a video of London Community Support Officers behaving in a disgraceful way, projecting so much aggression from the first, that I guess most people would immediately back down.  This sort of behaviour is disgusting but hopefully displays possibly a form of correct manner to handle these matters.

I’ve been pushing some new photography to my photoblog over at Sumatro.com.  I have a new set of work lined up, all being published at 9am every morning.  To keep up to date, subscribe to the RSS feed.

Would love some comments/idea/abuse on the photos if you have the time.

Just opened Google Reader on my N95 and WOW.  A complete overhaul on the interface that makes reading a pleasure.  Bigger text, smoother fonts and a much tighter UI, its a step in the right direction.

Looking for an official announcement, but nothing on the official blog yet.

Thanks to everyone that popped on over to Vista Squad last night in Victoria. Damn good turnout and I think it all went pretty well. We managed to give out our copy of Vista and I definitely think I’ll pull out some of the Technet Plus subscriptions for next time.

Hope to see you all next time, 18th of June is the next meetup. Keep a check on the website for the full details and speaker confirmation. We definitely have Stephen Lamb booked in for one of the talks but are still looking for the developer slot. So if you’re interested, have some interesting tech you’ve been playing around with, drop us an email or comment and we can get talking.

Cheers!

Video Sharing startup Vimeo seems to be struggling with uploads and conversions at the moment.  See below for the page that came up when I wanted to view the video I just uploaded.

Has anyone ever migrated content ( source control, users, work items ) from an existing TFS 2005 installation to a new 2008 installation?  My 2005 box is built on old 2005 beta code that was then upgraded to 2005 RTM and survived a crash.  I’m not too confident that it will survive a 2008 upgrade so I’m looking for a mechanism to migrate the content across.

Any ideas?

Crazy Man from Ray Booysen on Vimeo.