When I think of “Nightlife,” this weeks PhotoFriday theme, I think of music and dancing. I have quite a few images of live music but perhaps the best I have that emphasises the “life” in “nightlife” is the above shot from our holiday in Canillas de Albaida, Spain.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Cleanliness.” I’m entry number 158.

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I should probably apologise in advance for the puns.

This weeks PhotoFriday is “Cleanliness.” I came up with a number of ideas, a few of which I tried, most of which didn’t work. Then I decided that the various liquids kept under the kitchen sink might be suitable since they tend to be used to keep things clean. While fairly colourful it wasn’t quite enough. It needed something else.

One of the phrases I’d been thinking of was “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” Ours is not the kind of household to have a copy of the Bible or Qur’an to hand so I had to improvise. This may require changing the phrase to “Cleanliness is next to godlessness” but it works. Kind of.

I didn’t have an entry in last weeks PhotoFriday so there’s no need to feel guilty for not voting for me.

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People are impressed by the Academy Awards ceremony, all the glitz and glamour, the celebrities and the recognition for their work. However there are much easier ways to pick up your own Oscar statue.

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I’ve missed the New Year celebrations on the 31st December for about fifteen years now so it’s getting beyond the point where you could consider it an accident. Indeed, the cold and the crowds both in Trafalgar Square and afterwards on the Tube don’t exactly encourage me to make an effort. Luckily Chinese New Year is at a more civilised time, is less busy and slightly warmer.

Still, it’s the first time I’ve ever made it!

The crowd was pretty diverse, with people wearing everything from Vans to colourful umbrellas to traditional Chinese outfits. (Well, I think.)

The main stage had a constant flow of dance and music, and between acts these two women provided banter.

Many in the crowds has purchased mini-drums and dragons from the many vendors found a short walk away in Leicester Square. Kids (of all ages) entertained themselves throwing caps to the ground to make them go “bang.”

After soaking in the atmosphere for a while I headed out of Trafalgar Square into Leicester Square and towards China Town. Lanterns were everywhere!

Overall, it was a nice way to spend an otherwise dark and grey February afternoon.

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This weeks PhotoFriday, “Nature,” is a much broader theme than we’ve had in the last few weeks. So lots of choices this time — too many — and in the end I figured that showing the vastness of a natural area, barely touched by man was the way to go. This image is originally from my tribute to Ansel Adams.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Lightness.” I’m entry number 220.

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Obviously I’m all for Apple making my life easy, but that’s not going to happen for a while yet so I thought I’d share how I implemented it in Yummy.

The key is this simple protocol:

@protocol SaveState

- (NSData*) saveState;
- (id) initWithSaveState:(NSData*)data;

@end

This is what I have in my applicationWillTerminate: method:

NSMutableArray* vcList = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:3];
for (UIViewController* vc in self.navigationController.viewControllers) {
    // Classes that don't implement the SaveState protocol will be ignored
    if ([vc conformsToProtocol:@protocol(SaveState)]) {
        NSArray* state = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:NSStringFromClass([vc class]),
                                                                     [(UIViewController*)vc saveState],
                                                                     nil];
        [vcList addObject:state];
    }
}

This is in the applicationDidFinishLaunching::

for (NSArray* screen in screenList) {
    UIViewController* next =
                [[NSClassFromString([screen objectAtIndex:0]) alloc]
                                   initWithSaveState:([screen count] == 2) ?
                                   [screen objectAtIndex:1] : nil];
    if (next != nil) {
        [[self navigationController] pushViewController:next animated:NO];
        [next release];
    }
}

So a simple example, for a view controller that needed to be remembered but didn’t need to store any extra state, would be:

- (NSData*) saveState {
    return nil;
}

- (id) initWithSaveState:(NSData*)data {
    return [self init];
}

But you can initialise each view controller with anything that can be converted into an NSData. (I picked NSData rather than, say, id because an NSData can always be serialised. Made sense to make that assumption.)

One weakness is that it doesn’t cope with the situation where a modal view is on top but that should be pretty easy to implement if it’s important (it generally isn’t in Yummy).

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I had a really hard time finding a suitable image for this weeks PhotoFriday theme, “Lightness.” I note that a few people have submitted sunsets or sunrises. Nice, but that’s light not lightness.

I visited Iceland over Christmas and remember the constant flickering of candles and open fires and the cheer of the locals despite the long hours of darkness. This image, therefore, represents lightness both in terms of the candles and the spirit of all in the parade. (That sort of sounds cheesy when you write it down but I’m being genuine when I say it!)

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Surfaces.” I’m entry number 195.

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Don’t you just hate it when this happens? You try to push the cork-screw into the bottle and it just ends up pushing the cork right into the bottle.

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“Surfaces,” this weeks PhotoFriday theme, is kind of an odd subject, I mean in some sense almost everything is or has a surface. But what I liked about the Getty Museum in Los Angeles is that the whole building was strange shapes and surfaces, something that I tried to get across in this image. Which I thought made it a decent candidate for this weeks challenge.

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Distant.” I’m entry 189.

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I like the every-day grazing cattle contrasted with the “Distant” — this weeks PhotoFriday challenge — mountains. This was taken in Georgia (the country not the US state).

Please also vote for my entry in last weeks challenge, “Damaged.” I’m entry number 59.

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