Hasn't been that long

... has it?
It can't have.
I'm certain that I wrote a post in January sometime, but it's not there.

It's been all much the same over the last few months though. Occasionally riding before work, sometimes riding on the weekend. Working.
Plenty of time, and plenty of things to be doing, but I don't ever seem to do anything.
I blame it on the internet. An in-exhaustible source of information, reading material and photos. And I blame Google, because information is useless without being able to find it.
Google is incredible. How does it work. Google store all there data on parallel 80 GB standard hard drives with ten times redundancy.
If I type "bike" into the Google search bar, I get:
Results 1 - 10 of about 125,000,000 for bike [definition]. (0.35 seconds)
How do they do that?
I don't understand.
We've got a good idea about how ranking is calculated (or at least what factors contribute, as the algorithm is secret, like Flickr's interesting algorithm), but how do they search so much information, and rank it and send us the results in such a short period of time? And with so many people searching at the same time?
I'm sure I saw a book once (or maybe I dreamt it) called something like "How Google Works", but even if the book was real I'm sure it wouldn't be about what I'm thinking of.
It's crazy how big Google (as a company) have gotten though.
Can you imagine how much money they must be pulling in to make Street View, Google Video and Gmail profitable?
Everything they come up with seems to take off.
Why?
A lot of people worried that when Google went IPO the company would change and loose the anti-corporate and network neutrality culture, but they didn't. Well at least they haven't yet, or it's not become apparent.
Will it happen? It's inevitable, isn't it? I think so.
A lot of people think that industrialization ruined the world, but I think it was agriculture, which caused settlement. Industrialization was an inevitable advancement. But I'm getting off topic - ha - this post was going to be about photography!

Which brings be back to the point (completely accidentally though, I admit).
This is why I don't blog as often as I would like - because it takes forever. Literally - because I'm never finished. I can't just write something about something. I have to open more browser tabs to check facts, add stats, research. I always wrote excellent essays in high school, often getting perfect marks. And one thought always leads to another, which also needs to be fully explored and researched, and I never get on to what I was going to write about, and if I do I change chunks every time I go back and re-read it, until it's perfect, which it never is.
So I end up getting bored, and not finishing a post, and if the writing doesn't have a point and isn't finished it I won't post it. I know it's bad, because it's not finished. It doesn't have and introduction, a hook, an argument, or a conclusion. It's missing evidence, and it's not to the point. It's just a string of thoughts, not a piece of writing, an article, an essay.
Why isn't this coming out like an essay? Maybe I'll have to start writing down a planning sheet - which was the only useful thing Mrs Taylor ever taught me, and it seemed that I was the only one that thought that, (that the planning was useful, not that Mrs Taylor taught us very little - everyone knew that).
But this is just a string of thoughts again. It's bad. Shall I post it anyway? Or should I scrap it and write an essay about why I haven't posted in so long?
Nah, I'm bored of writing now.

Valentine's

I don't like Valentine's day.
Insert "Created by Hallmark", and all that "bar, humbug" stuff here.
But I've finally finished the present* for Mum's birthday (which was in November), and after taking pictures and messing around with my home-made extension tube, the thumbnail of this one popped out at me in Bridge.
I would never make anything in pink or purple, or anything with hearts on. These are just purple with multi-coloured "blips", honest. I didn't mean them to look girly.
I can't put up any other pics until Mum gets them.

* I've noticed that here (North America) everyone uses the word "gift", whereas I've always called it a "present". It seems strange, when it doesn't have anything to do with the time between the past and future. But don't you love the internet:
–noun pres⋅ent

16.	a thing presented as a gift; gift: Christmas presents.

That makes more sense.