I’ve just uploaded the final photo batch, for those who are interested.

Well done to anyone who noticed that Kansas City wasn’t actually in Kansas on the map just now To be fair, it’s actually half in Missouri anyway, but it was waaaay out before.

I’ve just added photos of Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. You may need to refresh the index page to get it to update the imagemap.

Howdy!

I have started to put my USA images online. The index page can be found here. So far I’ve only done Boston, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Kansas and Albuquerque. I’m using the ACDSee HTML generator (because I’m not a complete masochist) but it’s using active javascript that XPSP2 machines will complain about. It’s safe to view, though. Fyi firefox doesn’t like it a whole lot, and it’s a lot easier to view using IE. Please let me know if you encounter any problems. I’ll try to add more over the next few days. Let me know what you think…

Like cupcakes, I have returned.

I was going to assemble a proper write-up of my trip and have that as the first post, but I picked up the paper this morning to see a picture of Superman above the fold, along with the news that Christopher Reeve had died. That’s terribly, terribly sad. I always thought that one day, be it 20 or 30 years from now, I’d turn on the TV and hear that he’d walked again, like he was always determined to.

I don’t know enough to write effectively about the post-accident results he achieved in stem cell and spinal cord research, but others can. Tributes abound - most websites I visit have something about it. If you’re interested, particularly moving are the cartoon tributes collected by the Superman Homepage - no direct link, it’s currently their top item.

I grew up watching Christoper Reeve on video and TV and you all know of my ensuing love of Superman. I bought the movie DVD box-set as soon as it was available. I collect the comics. His portrayal inspired me to be a better person, literally. There are worse ways to live your life than asking ‘what would Superman do in this situation?’. His real life took a tragic turn, but he fought on, never giving up. The last time I saw him was a very cool cameo in Smallville where he advised the young Clark Kent - all the time he was on screen the background music subtley played the familiar Superman refrain. He was a true hero in fiction and reality. May he forever fly.