Persepolis: I really liked it, while being cute and childish it delivers the points that wants to deliver with precision but without hysterics, it makes sense of the situation in Iran without demonizing anybody but clearly asking though questions. Time well spent.

Iron Man: I may have talked about this one before in this most gracious site, geek buddies of mine loved it, they did not notice Ms Paltrow's high heels. Enough said.

I have read enough reviews about the Indiana Jones movie to the point I have been convinced no to bother. I never was a fan in the first place, and frankly I don't need to see more of the commies are evil nonsense, that was OK in the 80s, but now?

Stromboli: strange old movie with Ingrid Bergman in which she marries an Italian guy she meets in a refugee camp. They go to his home town, which happens to be a barren village in an island where the main landmark is a very active volcano. Ooopsie. She looks absolutely fantastic, so no wonder the director (Roberto Rosselini) got very intimate with her. Read all about it, it is in the yellow depths of the intarweb.

Canada does not require a visa for Mexicans.

I will repeat it again: Canada dos not require a visa for visiting Mexicans.

That is  real NAFTA brotherly love, as for other countries part of the agreement, they should remain unnamed (if they keep making it such PITA to visit them, we may withdraw all our gardeners and nannies: you have been warned).

Just bought an EOS 400D, it is primitive compared to the latest and greatest models (the screen is not used to frame the picture, you use, get this, the camera's viewfinder! How old fashioned is that?)  since a new Cannon model has just being introduced, this one has dropped in price considerably, which fits with my unemployed status.

I hope now I can go to photography clubs and workshops and will not be anymore "that Mexican guy with the film camera" or even worst "the guy with the film camera".

I have discovered that people in my speciality are  earning peanuts in general. Salaries have been driven down by people working remotely from India. It will be fun to see how much I can get, but maybe it is better to look for contracts outside the UK in places like Dubai, or goodness forbids, go back to East Asia. Or India!

Will see...

Since I don't need benefits I have not signed in the job centre. I don't know if I need to do that for any reason in particular, since I am sure I will not qualify for benefits at the beginning and I don't want a bureaucrat chasing me to find a job (I read the benefits are not means tested once you can get them, but in exchange you are chased to hurry up and find something, which I don't intend to do for now).

When I think about going to a job centre the image that comes to my mind is Prince Charles re-enacting the queuing scene in a job centre in "The Full Monty". For some reason that puts me off anyway ...