This is an excellent idea from Photojojo – the flickr time capsule – you sign up and allow the photojojo site to access your flickr stream, and twice a month it sends you one of your own flickr pictures from the same time last year.
I took this picture just over a year ago at the Willows Lodge Hotel near Seattle whilst at a team meeting.
Its absolutely simple to set up – just allow your flickr account to be accessed and then enter any mail address and you’re done, it takes less than a minute to do. A moment later a mail arrives confirming you are all set up. Once you have the time capsule running, you’ll get constant reminders of the photos you took one year ago, the more pictures you take the better the reminders – so it even gives you an excuse to take more photos.
The Flickr Time Capsule from Photojojo is here – sign up today for great memories.
I very rarely post about my football allegiances on here – but today I wanted to say something whilst everyone is watching the Carling Cup Final.
I’ve been feeling slightly queasy since the Arsenal game yesterday, I watched as Eduardo went down in what SEEMED an innocuous challenge with Birmingham player Martin Taylor, and various Arsenal players including Cesc Fabregas went pale as they saw him laying on the floor and called physios onto the pitch, eventually Eduardo was stretchered off, and straight to hospital.
No doubt football talk shows will be alight with commentary about Arsene Wengers reaction (and subsequent retraction) – but really, should Wenger have retracted, because the more I look at it, the more I think he was right.
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My friend Stacie said it well, when she suggested that each country has its own oddities and things that individualise it, for me as a kid I always thought of the US as the place where all the cops carried guns and where cowboys lived.
Nowadays that clearly isn’t the case, all the cops in the UK carry guns – and the cowboys turned out to be gay, but still the US is the only one of the two countries where you can carry a gun legally, so I always wanted to try shooting a handgun when I was over there – and now I know it’s relatively easy to take that opportunity.
I got taken to Wades Eastside Guns and Indoor Range in Bellevue for a Saturday morning shooting handguns – it was a truly memorable experience.
Click more to read my experience of shooting for the first time.
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Daniel Day-Lewis has immortalized that line in one of the most memorable scenes from ‘There Will be Blood’, but it turns out that way before becoming an internet meme (what’s a meme? – click here) it was actually a line used in real life.
Over on ‘Observations of Film Art’, director Paul Thomas-Anderson lets on that the dialogue came from a US congressional hearing.
Its appears that it sort of ‘transmogrified’ into the movie, only to be committed to memory by Daniel Day-Lewis’ epic delivery:
Anderson concedes that he’s puzzled by the phenomenon — particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California.
So – now you know, when you see Daniel Plainview screaming at Eli Sunday – its all just a rip-off from Senator Albert Fall – or was it Kelis?
Click more for the ultimate milkshake mashup!
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This has been mentioned in a few places – including Eileens Blog – but there is a site to capture 6 word memoirs – inspired by Hemingways famous 6 word story(written for a bet):
“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn”.
I particularly liked this one from the site:
Believed in hope; still awaiting justice.
and:
Reached for stars,hit the floor
So I’ve been starting to think what mine might be – a couple about my life as a DJ:
Discovered Kraftwerk, still love four/four.
Never better than behind the decks.
But I’m settling for one of these two…which are more general:
Summer of sixty nine. Started there.
Regret nothing. Every decision led here.
The site for this shenanigans, is here.
The more astute of you may have noticed that I have added a new feature into the sidebar (its over there on the right) – which shows my current Live Messenger status. It seems to work quite nicely, showing whether I am on or offline, and my current screen name (which I use for location).
Its really easy to setup your wordpress blog, or any website to show your Live Messenger status – I did it two or three minutes. Heres the steps:
- Make sure you have a working Live Messenger ID – download the client here
- Go to http://settings.messenger.live.com/applications/websettings.aspx and sign in with your Windows Live ID
- Enable the setting to show your status to the web
- Copy the appropriate code into your HTML – I copied it into sidebar.php on my WordPress theme and wrapped in an list object so that it styled nicely.
There is a much more detailed tutorial on how to set this up over at Angus Logans blog – but honestly, if I can do it in a few minutes, then anyone can.
I look forward to hearing from you on messenger – and I hope this works for y’all!
Check out this guys skillz – you’ll need to watch about 90 seconds to get the full effect.
Yep – thats how weird it gets! One man, singing ‘A whole new world’ from some disney film…
Ahead of Super Tuesday here in the US, this seems appropriate
Yes. We. Can.
(via Crooked Timber)
I like travelling to the US, Seattle is a nice place to go (with nice countryside and views), the food is pretty good, the service is great and shopping is excellent.
Even the hotel I stay in is pretty good – The Hyatt in Bellevue – with big, clean rooms, a gym nearby, good connectivity.
Despite all of this loveliness – the whole trip is missing one thing – newspapers. Its Sunday morning and I’ve just tried to read the Seattle Times whilst having breakfast – WHAT A TERRIBLE PAPER. I’ve had to turn the the intarwebs so that I can read articles from the Observer and The Independent on Sunday, because The Seattle Times (albeit free in the hotel) is such a pile of crap.
I wonder what paper I should be reading whilst I’m here – I could go and buy one…but I don’t know what compares with The Observer, The Indie or even the Sunday Times.
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