Dave and Jen For Oxfam

Digital cameras and holidays. There is a valid train of thought about people going on holidays with their little digital cameras and spending more time taking photos then soaking in the experience. There is plenty i agree with in that regards, and one only needs to sit in any crumbling temple watching people get frustrated with each other as they jostle to take, largely, terrible photos of wonderful things, before bustling back on to a tour bus. The logic of this argument gets stronger when you consider the photo their tiny point and shoot camera attempted to take of a distant temple, at sunset, with their tiny flash on is all but throw-away. So why did we take 3 cameras with us? 

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One of the less interesting things about returning recently has been the task of chasing down exactly why our trip updates haven’t been publishing correctly. Given the whole point of this site, the combination of interesting open source media and publishing tools and the simplicity of the process, you can gather we are a little perplexed. Not the least of which is that it really is quite a push to force oneself to boot up the laptop and collet ones thoughts after a day of such immersive activity. For now, it seems that our webserver host, Site5, has migrated the server this and other sites sits on. A few obvious scenarios spring to mind regarding missing posts, other sites not working at all and this front end working now, but we will focus on fixing it first. Apologies to all our friends and colleagues who have wondered what’s been going on!