YouTube or Dailymotion?

Dailymotion blogged video
Western, originally uploaded by StephA little fun sequence Michel Valdrighi and Stephanie Booth put together on a grey Sunday morning.
We all love Flickr. Unfortunately for those of us who have video sequences to share, Flickr only deals with photographs.
I have found too more-or-less equivalent services for videos: they allow you to upload and [...]

Flickr: What’s up With the Crappy Uploading?

Dear Flickr,
I really love you, but you seem pretty cranky on the upload front. You’ve actually been cranky for a few weeks (or more). At first I thought it was the iPhoto plugin’s fault. Then I thought it was 1001’s fault. But now I learn that other people have the same complaint, including some which [...]

Eight Forty-Five

8.45 am. And I’ve already been productive. I’ve just stuck a bit less than 20 meters of foam around my various draughty windows to help them be less draughty (and, incidentally, maybe make my desk somewhere I can actually work on, instead of being the death of my RSI-prone fingers).

technorati tags: draughty, windows, accomplishment, morning, [...]

Flickr: Easy Remove From Set

Have you noticed that on Flickr, it’s much easier to add photos to a set than to remove them? You can select a batch of photos (based on a tag, for example) and add them all to a set.
This means it’s really easy to add too many photos to a set. Photos you hadn’t intended [...]

Daytime

It took me an hour to get to school this morning. This is what the car looked like before I left:

If I had had the morning off, I would have spent it taking photographs all over the place. Instead, here is a little snap of what is just outside the staffroom at school. (Yes, the [...]

First Snow

Yes, I know this is much too late to be still up. I had actually planned to go to bed early, but was too comfortable on my couch with the candles, the cat, and some nice stuff to read.
At midnight, I finally decided it was time to call it a day. Getting up from the [...]

Six Down, One to Go

Done:

Replaced my iBook power cable (gosh, that was expensive).
Picked up the microwave from the shop. It now functions without making me think it mistook my kitchen for an airfield.
Called my health insurance.
Called Orange and settled the matter of the phantom GPRS connection.
Dropped off six (SIX!) pairs of trousers which needed repairing (three of which are [...]

Kitchen Back Under Control!

It took all of seven minutes.
While I listen to Eva Cassidy, you can have a peek at my Flickr photographs sorted by “interestingness”. Enjoy!

Dangerous Times

Today and tomorrow are crucial days. I am tired, I have been away from home or busy marking essays these last two days, and as a result a little bit of visible clutter and dust bunnies have accumulated.
This is the point where I can either clean up before it starts seeming like “a lot of [...]

Snail Mail

I’ve got another letter ready for the post! I can’t believe how easy it’s becoming to send administrative letters. If you have stamps, envelopes, a paper and a pen, it’s almost as straightforward as sending an e-mail.
Maybe my impression of having to send a letter being a “big thing” comes from my teenage years, where [...]