Well it is getting colder…

I recently charged my Funky Cat to 100%, the predicted range was 159 miles.

I haven’t charged to 100% for a while as I haven’t been doing that much driving.

When I first got the Funky Cat in August 2023 whenever I charged to 100% my predicted range was usually 185 miles. Not quite the 193 of the advertised WLTP range but pretty close. However in the winter it did drop quite dramatically.

Photographing the past

Wrote a blog post about my time at the Western Colleges Consortium. I realised how few photographs I have of my time there. Did find this one of the filing cabinets in 2004 with the big format printer on top.

filing cabinets

Oh, that’s a fax machine next to the cabinets.

I didn’t really capture what I did back then in photographs. I didn’t really do as much photography back then as I do now. Part of the reason is I am taking more photographs now, but the second reason was back in 2004, a mobile phone was for making phone calls and sending texts. You didn’t really take photographs with a phone; you used a camera. I did have a camera in 2004, actually I used two, a Canon digital SLR and a small Sony Cybershot. Both actually took good photographs (well not in low light).

Checking the EXIF data of the filing cabinet photograph I realised that this was the first time I took a photograph with my then new Sony Cybershot. That explains the weird shot. Or so I thought, it appears I have a number of Sony Cybershot photographs with a DSC00001 file name. Suspect that the numbering was reset when you either deleted the photographs from the Memory Stick or used a different stick.

In comparison in 2004 I have 1062 photographs in my Mac photos app. In 2024 I took 4517 photographs. This year I have taken less, but in 2024 I did a photo a day which usually mean me taking a lot more photographs.

Of course, before digital, using film in the 1990s and (very) early 2000s, I would probably take three or four rolls of film, with 36 photographs on each roll.