45 Minutes Old, originally uploaded by Martin Burns.

Born this morning at 11:10, weighing 3740g (8lb 4oz in Old Money).

Everyone's doing just fine - Morgan's very, very excited. Ruaridh's a bit more nonchalant so far. Lucy's relaxing, and I'm on paternity leave!

If you're in a present-buying mood (well, a bloke's got to try, eh?), see Lucy's Gift List.

Lots of useful tools about pinhole photography, like f-stop calculators, pinhole-sizers and so on. I made pinhole cameras from Coke tins when I worked on a summercamp, and if I had access to a darkroom, I'd love to get back into it.

http://www.mrpinhole.com/

So I got a bonus this year - business has been improving and I did pretty well in 2004. I'm splashing a chunk of it out on a scanner that will let me Flickr my traditional film photos, including a whole folder of black and white negs. It's the Epson 4990. The link is to the review that convinced me.

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%204990/Page%201.htm

Through the application of latitude and longitude meta-data to a few photos, and a very handy Flash application that plots them on satellite photos, here's a map of some of the photos I've taken in Scotland.

http://brainoff.com/worldkit/flickr/photos/martinb/tags/mapped/?&lat=55.87578&lon=-4.2892&d=140

William is aka neuro_

http://cache.neuro.me.uk/pics/2004/05/01_predunkbbq/?01