I used to detail what was happening in my life through Flickr, and what I was interested in on this blog. The immediacy and brevity of Twitter put paid to that and I regret it. I think I will be making a concerted effort to either tweet less or not at all.

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It just caused my entire PC to restart. I will be downgrading forthwith.

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Flickr have just launched code.flickr, Your one-stop shop for information, gossip and discussion with the Flickr developer community which I imagine they want to use to draw together the disparate developer resources from the groups, forums, mailing list and more. I guess they also want to use it to

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So at the weekend I installed what I hope will become my full-time OS, Kubuntu. The one thing which this, and my week with SUSE has taught me is that Linux has a dearth of third-party applications. No, really. Almost everything that I normally use on...

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Someone sent me a message on Last.fm pointing out that I’m the top fan for A Stroke of Genius by the Freelance Hellraiser (and in fact the top fan for Freelance Hellraiser on the whole of last.fm which surprised me). The other...

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It’s strange how into games I am, yet I never seem to post about them, I think I should try and even that out a little bit occassionally. Like this 🙂 Posted from

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I can never bloody remember how to perform searches on multiple tags in Flickr: things like “photos tagged with Sheffield AND UK”. This is mainly due to the completely arcane syntax. http://www.flickr.com/photos/search/tags:sheffield,uk/tagmode:all/ In fact, I more readily remembered th...

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Since the time I first saw them I’d thought that Gravatars, Favatars and FOAFatars (OK, I made that last one up but this is what I mean) were cool, but useless. I appear to have just proved ...

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Gmail appears to have gone crazy and started giving out masses of invites. Perhaps they just bought a load of new hardware or something? Anyway, if you want a Gmail account, drop me a line, and you’ll be arbitrarily judged 🙂 Posted from

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The most interesting thing I’ve noticed about Flickr in the past week is that within one or two-degrees of my Flickr profile I’ve found so many people whose weblogs I subscribe to. Evhead, Kottke, Anil Dash, BluishOrange – all these are ones which just spring to mind now, there are plenty of others. So what I want are FOAF profile...

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