Turn, Turn, Turn

I can’t remember the last time I actually liked using a Microsoft product. Most of them feel as ossified as this bone church.

This morning, though, I followed a tip from Nick Bilton and went to Photosynth, the company’s 3D-auto-photo-stitch application site. A new upgrade is due tomorrow (and made Safari crash today). Meanwhile, I circumambulated the bone church (the Sedec Ossuary in the Czech Republic), rubbernecked at the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, and peered in at this Neapolitan creche. Fifteen minutes unobjectionably spent — and without a single error message!

• 16 December 2013