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After a late and thoroughly exhausting day yesterday, today was very much a rest day, signified by not getting up until gone midday. The rest of the day was spent trying to upload my pictures from last night which proved surprisingly difficult. The problem arises because I have an SDHC card for my camera, (like an SD card but it supports higher capacities). I've always had trouble with this but it had completely slipped my mind when I was packing and so I left my camera cable in Sheffield. I have an SD card reader in the house, I have an SD card reader in the printer, I have an SD card reader in my other camera (for which the cables are kept in Birmingham) and yet NONE of these support SDHC cards. I was racking my brains to try and find something that could read it because a) I wanted to know if the pictures were any good - its quite difficult to tell on a small screen - and b) I wanted to look at the videos I took.

Then a brainwave came (just the one) and I remembered that my Mum's Sony E-reader had an SD card reader on it and as it was pretty new I hoped and prayed that it would support it. Turns out the battery was so flat that the damn thing wouldn't turned on without being charged for 40 minutes so whilst that was happening, I went looking online for the specs to see if I was wasting my time. According to Wikipedia, it does support SDHC but only with a firmware update and I was convinced my Mum hadn't done that (if she even knew what a firmware update was!). I managed to find this elusive file in the end on Sony's US site - it seemed to be non-existent on the UK site for some reason. Guess what, WARNING, product must be fully charged before attempting a firmware update.... Bugger. Just what I needed, if it takes 40 minutes to charge enough to switch on the goodness knows how long it will take to charge fully. About three hours later it had done so and I went to check the version of the firmware already on the device. It was a later version than the update, which made no sense at all. I tried applying it anyway but it read the same information as me and decided it didn't need it. It wouldn't recognise the card and so I was no closer to getting a look at my damn pictures.

Then finally, it turns out that my brothers old laptop has a card reader in it and it worked! I got the files and managed to transfer them onto my laptop over the network (only just, it crashed the first time I tried). I got the videos converted and uploaded to YouTube and the pictures now sit happily on flickr and Facebook.

A small aside from that debacle and onto tonight's NMTB episode; I have been reviewing each episode so far so I can't stop now. Overall impressions: pretty food I'd say, I thought Mark Watson did a better job than most and managed to keep the conversation and banter flowing really well. I didn't think much of Daniel Merriweather or Donal MacIntyre but Noel's team were pretty good. Daniel certainly didn't live up to his bio description managing to fail to understand the line up round completely.

I will finish with a couple of my favourite pictures from last night and the video to Undisclosed Desires which turned out quite well, enjoy.