<insert crazy ramblings here>

I went up to the roof at lunch time yesterday, and took some photos of London. I have a whole slew of photo accounts out there on the internet, but realised I didn't really want to upload the photos to any of them. That and thinking about how to deal with crossposting to scratch_uk lead to this poll:

[Poll #1468489]

Last day of stubble:

Voting closes on the charity 'tache style at midnight tonight, but donations after that date would be gratefully received by Everyman.

Currently Handlebar's in the lead, but there's a few votes towards the 1920's villain look.

( Delayed Post Photo )

Yay! Valentines card! From coffee! Mmm.

Yay DFC! Hang on.
Yay 2 DFCs? No wait.

The builders downstairs have torn the bloodly thing in half, got paint on it, and used the bloody envelope to make a "Wet Paint" sign.

F**king Gits!

I had every issue up to this, and they're sold out!!!

Do you see what I see in this photo?


( cut for puerile political satire )

I finished both of my first projects last week.

( Pictures and write up )

I tried about three or four time to start the Cthulhu hat at the weekend, from the top down. But despite a rather useful video on small diameter circular knitting (Thanks Nikki) I couldn't get the hang of it.

I think I'm going to have to start with a larger tube just to practice. I've got no idea what to make though. I suppose I could just make a little pouch to keep the random foreign currency I've got on my desk in. Hmm.

aka Linkdump.

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"DRESSING MY CAT TO LOOK LIKE YOU JUST ISN'T THE SAME."
Best response to stalking accusation ever.

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I was particularly tickled by Martin Rowson's surreal cartoon on the EU constitution earlier in the week.

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A simple guide that can be used to hide messages in knitting. They can't be seen from the front. Here's an example a friend knitted.


Pointed to by Susie

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Fear the impossible quiz, as it's quite tricky. Flash game.
Sent by Eleri

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Surliminal has just posted a nifty map showing travel time by public transport to the Department for Transport. Re-enforces the idea that south east London is impossible to commute from.

Some thought's on Zooomr, having used it for a week or so.

Contrary to what I said before about a large upload limit, they in fact offer "Unlimited Upload, Archival and storage for your photos — forever!"

That sounds very nice, but then where's their revenue stream going to come from? They've lost their investor, so I'm not sure they can store images forever.

They don't seem to have an easy to search for all the photos a user has tagged in a particular way. The user can create a "smartset" that filters photos based on a range of critia (user, tags, date taken, date uploaded, number of views, and other users in the photo). But these a really buggy, and blank out all the time.

The rotation feature seems to work on a delay. When you try and use it, it seems to fail, but if you check again after a short while, the images have been rotated correctly.

If you rotate a photo with juploadr program they recomend for bulk uploading, it gets rotated in the opposite direction.

They still haven't fixed my profile page.

There's supposed to be a big upgrade soon, but if the_magician is reading this, I recommend using someone else for Worldcon photos.

( Way Out? )

I saw this a couple of days ago while wandering around Holborn. It felt like I'd run across one of those phone booths that can get you out of the Matrix. I was going to try the door, but I like it in here ;)

Prompted to post by seeing this post on the need for emergency entrances.