This is old but very nicely synchronous. Homesdirect.com was a US company that carried out foreclosure auctions and was brought by eBay in 2001. Though I cant find any evidence of homesdirect.com existing any more their domain name is owned and hosted by eBay still (but no site to speak of).
I love the internet for its ironic synchronicity.
Well, seems that Heather and I are now embroiled in an enormous property scam thanks to our friend Darren Russell.
We came home at the end of the weekend and found a letter telling us about how the bank was foreclosing on our flat’s mortgage. Our neighbour who is in the same position as us had done a lot more research (60 pages of it!!) and introduced us to his unearthing of the man known as “Dodgy Dazza.”
We also found out that our secretive landlord actually owned the letting agencies we have been using, Homesdirect and Chase Devonshire. Which now feel very much like front companies. I especially like Chase Devonshire’s claim that they have been trading for 20 years, when we found they had changed their name less than a year ago.
Our one consolation at the moment is that our minor loss is nothing compared to some landlords around. One lady chained herself to one of the Manchester offices in protest.
I love this gallery of wonderful looking platinum prints. They are all military aircraft and missiles, beautifully shot death machines produced by Per Volquartz
He apparently met Ansel Adams in Yosemite and was inspired to give up graphic design and become a photographer. Adams together with fellow Californian landscape photographer Morley Baer and painter Lorser Feitelsohn were to become his artistic mentors. Lucky guy!
I like Volquartz’s work; structural, mechanical, showing detailed and interesting textures of the aluminium and titanium his large format images. The tonal range is subtle and gentle, yielding a very soft feel, yet the focus is ultra sharp and the images have corrected perspective.
SpaceShipOne takes the $10 million X-prize ushering in a new age of commercial passenger spaceflight. It touched the edge of space twice within the space of a week.
Oh well, I missed out on watching it and I’m a month late on finding out about it. My in touchness with the space flight world seems to be slipping.
But I’ll have to watch the Huygens coverage when Cassini drops it off at Titan.
Sometimes bad looks good. My stockholm pictures are nice and need a little outing. In fact many of my pictures need more of an outing. 
