Please Steve Bellend aka Monkey Dancer, keep your grubby mits off our Flickr.

The moment I have to log in with a Passport/Windows Live password is the moment I jump ship to zoomr.  Is it zoomr?

Wonder if you can delete flickr accounts and get some money back from the pro membership?  Doubt it.

I’ve uploaded the somerset photos to flickr baby.

I’m trying out a new look with these and that look is called “OMG Why is that so over-saturated!?” I quite like the look but I’m sure I’ll get bored of it soon.

There are 374 photos in the Somerset set and you will have to study every single one of them right this instant because I am going to test you, and if you fail that test… well your life will not be worth living.

You know those country walk books? They usually start at a pub and end at a pub, its great! Well we thought we’d do a very bizarre route today, it’s odd because it snakes around Sheffield City Centre, not very country. Anyway, got some nice photo’s of the place en route.

Nice bus stop, see that number?  I think it’s a mobile number, maybe virgin.  Anyway, darez you to call it.  Remember if you’re international to prefix 044 and knock off the first 0.

It was a bittersweet walk for Eddie, the urban sites and sounds were interesting for him, but through the people busy thoroughfare’s (and the sales are on) he got a bit stressed out and went into this odd clearing-his-nose fit that he does when he’s really freaked out.  Actually, speaking of this, can any vet’s explain to me what he’s doing?

Wow, I’m pooped, i’ve just come back from a 3.5 mile run… well apparently it was 3.5 miles…

Hey look what arrived today! The toast of the town, it’s a red iPod Nano. Gosh, the box is even smaller than I realised, no photo can do justice to just how small this box is. Me loves the red, it’s a nice red, as nice as a red can be. The nike thing is a dandy contraption, and super easy to use. To calibrate it you just go to the calibration menu, choose either walk or run and that run for say 400metres, and it says to you sumting like “start running now” in a darling female voice. Unfortunately, i think I must have got the distance a bit off when I calibrated it though because I’ve just come back from a run and the Nike+ website reckons I’ve just run 3.56 miles and looking at an A-Z I cannot make the route out to be 3.56 by anyones reckoning. Guess I’d better give the calibration another good going over.

Hey, tell you what, the new headphones are a real improvement. I didn’t have all that much against the old ones except that run running I’d have re-adjust them a tad now and then. Well, these new ones sit so snug in and cosy in my ears that they didn’t budge an inch the whole jaunt.

I founsies a nice little Wordpress plugin for flickr. It adds a “photos” tab to the the upload/file broswer panel on the write post page. You scroll through your flickr photo’s right on the write post page and just click on one, a menu pop’s up and you choose the size you want to be inserted into the text! How easy is that!

I started a Flickr group today called “Basset Griffon Vendéen.”  Bet ya can’t guess what it’s about?  It’s already got 4 members, although admittedly 2 of them are me, one to set it up and one to test that its joinable lol.  Thing is, the 2 people who have joined have already posted enough photo’s to knock poor Eddie off the first page!

The funnest thing about it though is that you can rename “admin” and “member”.  I’ve called them “Grand” and “Petit” (a breed joke), but it’s a little ironic because that means I’m “Grand” because i’m the Admin but the photo’s I’ve added are of Eddie, who’s a “Petit”.

I urge everyone to take a look at this group because this breed is still very much unknown to the extent of being rare and yet every single specimen is cuter than the cutest thing you can imagine! And I wish to spread the word and make this breed more well known because do you know what?  It’s so unknown that some breeders amazingly have trouble selling an entire litter and they end up having to hold on to some of them beyond their puppy years and the older the puppy is the harder it is to sell.  And I dread to think what becomes of them.

I’ve admired Bleep.com for a long time but I never think to check there for music, because their catalogue is far from exhaustive and it’s mainly dance/electronic based, of which there hasn’t been an awful lot i’m interested in recently.

Anyway, today I went to iTunes to purchase “So This Is Goodbye” by Junior Boys and then I stopped for a second to wonder what the alternative online stores are, I checked Bleep.com and am sooooo glad I did. Not only was it a pound cheaper, 6.99 rather than 7.99 at iTunes but it’s encoded at 320kbit/s (almost obscenely high!) and without any DRM, and this isn’t any dodgy Russian thing, the artists get the royalties they deserve. I also bought the new singles/b-sides compilation by Tortoise, it’s 3cd’s of music and just 8.99! bargain. Also, you can pay by paypal so you you don’t have to go through too much torture in the way of registering.

We took Eddie for another country walk, this walk was from bakewell to hadden hall and back and offered plenty of scenery to try out my camera, I’m still far from a photography expert though. Tell you what, what I’ve noticed now that there’s more photo’s in iPhoto made on it, when you scroll up and down through the thumbnails its really really obvious which are from the DSLR and which are from the compact because the DSLR ones through and through have more vivid colour, the ones from the compact look kind of pastel compared.

I bought a registration for FlickrExport a few weeks go and I realised today that it’s a bit silly to have paid for FlickrExport and yet be using a free Flickr account. So I’ve finally paid for a pro one today, however I didn’t upgrade the account I have been using because it isn’t included in public searches and tag pools, I occasionally upload screenshots to it and these are considered copyrighted material, if they notice they flag your account to not be made public. So, i’ve setup a new account, a pro one for photo’s and I’ll use the free one for screenshots and dodgy things I guess.
The Scobe or whatever he’s affectionately known has been praising some beta software by Microsoft, Codename Max (sounds way to much like Mac’s), I can’t for the life of me figure out what it is so I was intrigued to try it out. It has a flashy interface which requires a good 3D card I think, so I have to boot into bootcamp for that. So I booted into Vista to download Max and install it, and do you know what? The Installer told me I need XP! OMG! In fact, even better it told me to “upgrade” to XP.

Here is a wee video clip for Dave2…it may answer some burning questions he has.

Received this mail shot from safari books online the other day…

Safari Books Online is pleased to announce the launch of the new Rough Cuts service. Rough Cuts gives you early access to content
on cutting-edge technologies — before it’s published. It lets you literally read the book as it is being written.

The four inaugural Rough Cuts titles come from O’Reilly Media and share our focus on hot emerging technologies: Ajax Hacks, Flickr
Hacks, Ruby on Rails: Up and Running, and Ruby Cookbook. In February, O’Reilly will follow up with Ubuntu Hacks, Ajax Design
Patterns, and Perl Hacks. The Pearson Technology Group will join the Rough Cuts service later this quarter with: Macs on the Go,
Real World Adobe Creative Suite 2, Secrets of Videoblogging, Imagination Challenge and ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed.

Sounds interesting, especially Ajax Hacks. Intrigued to know what they can fill a whole book on Flickr with. Unfortunately they don’t seem to be included with a regular subscription, you need to pay typically $13 to get access to a rough cut title.