Got your PM, thanks! I'll get around to it this weekend.

ok, just shout if you get confused. I know it's not entirely user friendly... I may change that when I get some time. I thinking about selling that script.

Ok, with Satis' much appreciated help (the webspace as well as final touches in getting the pictures online, ie the scripting touches ), the pictures I took on holiday in Malta are up. They're not all the pics I took since I'm a crappy photographer and a lot of them came out bad, or because I just didn't want to show some pics here.

They're all in one big batch but there are some major groups that belong together, so I'll give you the general link and then describe the major 'groups, (top to bottom):

http://clankiller.com/stuff/Rinox/spring09/index.php

- Some pics from , the largely uninhabited mini island I spent two days on

- The state palace rooms and, more importantly, the armory. Rows and rowns of old weaponry going from armors to flintlock guns to rocket launchers, cannons, bayonets and swords. I tried to take a few detail pics, zooming in on the craftmanship of some of these items. It's exquisite sometimes. Like here:



- Some harbor and bay shots.

- Some more Comino pics strangely grouped in with some shots from St-John's Cathedral. Again, some of the detail work is incredible.



- The WW II museum. As you may or may not know, Malta was a crucial position in the Mediterranean in WWII and was savaged by the Germans and Italians but never conquered. To give you an idea, more bombs fell on Malta in 2 months than on London during the entire war, which is saying something given its tiny surface. It's probably the heaviest bombed piece of land in WW II. For all its bravery the people of Malta were collectively awarded the George Cross after the war, the highest British. decoration for civilian bravery. A picture of the letter announcing it is in there.

- The Roman Villa & Museum. Lots of cool Roman stuff gathered in a museum built on the site of a Roman villa. Hence the mosaics. Detail again.



- St Paul's Catacombs, a collection of early Christian burial chambers and worshipping ruins.

- Some pics (mostly views) from the fortress city of Mdina.

- Hawt shit: the prehistoric temple of Mnajdra. Its is one of the three major prehistoric temples on Malta (Hagar Qim and Ggantija are the others, unfortunately, one was closed and the other I didn't have time for) and features some interesting characteristics that point toward it being used to track the solstices and the equinox. It is older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, structures with similar traits. They are widely regarded as some of the earliest clearly recognizable man-made structures. You can't help but be in awe when you stand in the inner sanctum and imagine that 5500 years ago, there were already people standing where you are, performing rituals and whatnot. Since the last time I went they put a sort of protective umbrella over the ruins taking away some of its scenic-ness (they're 5 metres from a steep cliff into the sea), but whatever.



- and to end, more Comino pics. Mostly from the Blue Lagoon with its crystal blue waters.