I haven’t written anything here for ages have I!

I guess I have been so busy enjoying the world.

In fact I cannot write a great deal now but only to say that I am hoping to get started on scanning in my North Downs Way slides this weekend. It will take me some weeks yet as there are about 500 or so to get through although I have already marked off the winners from looking at them projected.

I just cannot believe it is already four months since I took the first step on that 160 mile hike across the South East of England.

I’m already looking back on it with melancholic whimsy of , “what I did then. That was the day!” And I realise, that we all do this, looking back on a time when we did some when we were free and the memory paints it with warmer tones and it was just fantastic. Almost an American Beauty moment of looking back on the job flipping Burgers in the summer or being asked how you feel, and when you look back on it all. We all have those moments and they seem to stop at some point. Trapped in the wildfire of bills and general working life, and families and so forth. It seems apparent to me to never stop having little adventures; after all, why stop if you’re still free? It makes looking back not so painful when you are absolute in the knowledge that you can still strike out and do your own thing to this very day.

I don’t know what I’m going to do next year. Maybe Southern France, maybe/probably the Cotswolds Way, maybe the USA again – I’m just not sure. Just so much to do in such a short amount of time it seems. There’s so much to see and do, breathe and live! I’m glad I made it through the shit-storm I found myself in 2006 and moved on from all the crap that got towed out of that year; life is a much better sweeter thing. I’m not rich, I scrabble to pay bills, my socks now have holes and the hoovering needs to be done; but I couldn’t be happier with my lot and it’s not much but it keeps me content

This virus has been widely spread these days and it has become very common that every pen drive we use will be infected by this virus. This Recycler virus / BV:AutoRun-G[Worm] is very annoying one and even formatting the pen drive will not remove the virus. Though antivirus software is able to identify, it cannot remove the virus completely. If you delete this manually, it will again create itself and none of the virus removal tricks could work to resolve the problem.

• Download Flash Disinfector and save on some non windows drive.
• Double click on it and it will ask you to insert USB flash drive and click ok. Do so.

• Clicking on ok will make your desktop go blank, don’t worry, its normal.
• It will fix the autorun.inf virus and you are done partially. Yes, its a partial solution, it will lock the autorun file and you will see some file created by flash disinfector. If you remove the file, the virus get re activated. May be some future update of our antivirus software’s will have complete fix for this.

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1.Symptoms of infection:

Hard disk autoplay
msconfig  disabled
Hidden files and folders disabled .

2.W32/Autorun Worm:

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3.Autorun Virus Removal method 1:

The autorun virus can be removed both manually and by using any autorun virus removal tool. The manual removal time of the virus depends on the intensity of the attachment of the virus to the system. To remove the virus manually, you need to:

1. Kill the autorun process through Task Manager.
2. Boot the system in safe mode and open the command prompt.
3. List all system and .exe files on the C drive (or your OS drive).
4. Disable hidden, system, and read only attributes for autorun.inf and ntdelect.com (not ntdetect.com)
5. Delete both the files.
6. Repeat these steps for all the drives on your computer.
7. Search for kavo.exe in C:\windows\system32\ and delete it.
8. Open registry editor and delete all the entries of kavo.exe under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE

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Autorun Virus Removal method 2:

1.Get autorun virus removal tool here


2.Now Press Win+R and enter cmd open Windows command prompt .
Now we are about to list hard disk files from command prompt .
for C drive type dir c:\ /a/w

If Autorun virus is present , It will get listed as shown above . There would be many other files like onlinegames , kavo.exe,.vbs , Heap41a , newfolder.exe,.com, ppt.exe etc .
These files include read only, archive, system and hidden file attributes associated with them.
So in next step we will remove these restrictions from the above suspicious files .
attrib -s -h -r c:\autorun.inf
or attrib -s -h -r c:\autorun.vbs ( Change the hard disk partitions as required)
Now remove all those files associated with autorun virus using del instruction .
Del autorun.inf or Del kavo.exe ( repeat the procedure for all the files and hard drives )
Or you can automate the process by notepad

 dir c:\ /a/w
attrib -s -h -r c:\autorun.inf
del autorun.inf

dir d:\ /a/w
attrib -s -h -r d:\autorun.inf
del autorun.inf

dir e:\ /a/w
attrib -s -h -r d:\autorun.inf
del autorun.inf

(Add the necessary hard disk partitions and files as per requirement ). Now copy the completed document in notepad and save as remove.bat . This file will remove all the autorun virus traces on execution .

After removing all the infected autorun virus files from hard drives , execute autorun virus removal tool on step 1 to remove further traces .

3. Repair registry to enable hidden files and folders .

Press Win+R and enter regedit . Now this will open the Windows registry . Move on to the following registration entries .

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Explorer>Advanced>Folder>Hidden>SHOWALL

Autorun virus usually alter this registration entry . Double click on CheckedValue and enter value data as 1 .  Now you would be able to enable hidden files and folders .

4. Turn off autorun feature in Windows .

This will avoid the execution of existing autorun worms in a PC and also one on USBs and CDs .

Copy the following command in notepad and save as removeautorun.reg

REGEDIT5
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@=”@SYS:DoesNotExist”

5. Restart your PC for the complete removal of Autorun virus .

Now almost all antivirus softwares like Kaspersky , Norton , NOD32 will remove autorun virus species. So keep your antivirus updated .

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Olympus OM2n, Ilford FP4+, Zuiko 28mm, Lee RF75 + 0.6ND Hard Grad

Kodak seems to have mislaid one of my rolls of Kodachrome which I shot walking the North Downs Way in June. Ahhh good times, sun, the open track, hard graft, great views and a sense of achievement. Wonderful, much more meaningful than a lot of the crap in day to day life I guess.

Anyway, if anything it’s a blessing in disguise because I’ve been feeling a bit sad that my adventure for this year is over. I had a tremendous amount of fun as ever, I guess I just love being out there and free.

So, in lieu of me feeling a bit melancholy and missing that adventure, having lost a roll of film and indeed the weather on the day concerned being what we call in the trade, “thoroughly pap” (i.e. crap) I thought I’d walk it again one weekend in August.

That’s basically Ranmore Common to Westerham via Box Hill, Reigate Hill and Tandridge Hill. I have 5 rolls of Kodachrome still in the fridge so I can take two rolls, shoot it, do a good job on some good weather and hopefully not have Kodak mislay these rolls (in fairness, this is the first of however many rolls of KR64 I sent them that got lost, I’ve probably shot around 80-100 rolls of Kodachrome in my time…)

It’s a bit crazy as I know the day I walked from Ranmore Common to Godstone was a long old day but damn was it good fun. Hard going fun.

The kind of thing that makes life thoroughly amazing and worth living. The best things in life have to be worked at, and are often hard going. But there was never any sense of accomplishment of watching Jeremy Kyle. Though, on second thoughts, anyone who can make it through a whole episode of that without wanting to throw the telly out the window has my admiration.

So, back off to the North Downs then

All in between me enjoying the South Downs and finishing my B&W Photography Magazine, B&W Photographer of the Year entry… Eeeep!

Excuse the slightly more obscure postings of late, I have been feeling lyrical…

At some point in my life I will no longer be young,
and that wanderlust in the recent past will become not a memory but forgotten history.
And in history we become ghosts and a poetic whimsy unconnected with the present.
But in love, lust, sex and cigarettes there is a future.

And why in cigarettes the being of death immortalised in smoke and tobacco-paper smoke is there future?
Why in any of this immortal chasing is there any future in the sand-prints of our time,
And if any of those shoreline marks do make the difference
Then a small plume of post-lust cigarette smoke won’t make the slightest dent on us yet.

Life so short of small pleasures which often real ecstasy is replaced with the subversions of solace
And in the birds’ twitter and the squirrels’ scamp lies a crooked eye
Self preservation pulsing and this is the small pleasure of life that replaced lust, love and cigarettes
Cocaine, ecstasy and the riding thump of the darkened night so long ago in those unimportant youthful pasts

Though for youth that unimportant past you look down on isn’t so throwaway
It ain’t so impermanent as to be the smoke from your cigarette that is so gone away by now
It’s the formation of four score and the to be permanent and formative moments of a lifetime
A lifetime of step forward, step back, hand up and hand down, of love, lust, sex, and cigarettes.

You are our past and we are your future, we all want to stamp our mark in those sands of time
But those sands they shift and twist, hell-bent and despotic they stride in the annals of time
We’ll all be forgotten given enough strokes of the big hand.
So why is a cigarette after love, lust and sex so bad after all?