Will I, won’t I… to ride the motorbike or not… My arm is probably up to it, but only if all of Melbourne’s motorists behave themselves and nobody does anything stupid in front of me. Chances of that with slightly wet roads, not high enough. So its back on the trains and buses.

Sitting in an empty shiny train, I took a picture of it, one of the stupid things that is easy to do with a digital camera. There’s no waiting to finish a whole roll of film before developing it — click, instant gratification and more stupid snapshots than you can poke a stick at. This then came up in discussion later in the day, the pros and cons of digital and 35mm cameras. After spending on average, $30 per roll for film and processing of my APS camera, I’m quite happy most of the time with the digital. The only times I wish for an SLR would be taking close-ups, or long exposures, or all the odd things.

Attention passengers; the 6:15 train to Flinders street has been delayed and is expected in five minutes…

Digging around looking for ways to read the Flex floppies into wyvern. There seems to be a standard format for Flex disk images to be held in, which is “DSK". The best approach I’ve found seems to be a combination of anadisk.exe and ana2dsk.exe, both of which are MS-DOS programs. Oh well, if it works, I’ll be happy! Quite a thriving community of Flex users out there, tending their old machines or running their software on emulators like flexemu.

• http://www.roadtoadventure.net/: maybe I should enter some of my photos in their competition… maybe not.