in/out 2005

Yes, it's time to do our speculative lists and jaunts of fancy about what will be IN and what will be OUT in 2005.

IN writing online, red and orange, visiting friends

OUT borders/visas/passports/walls, Blogger not working well in Safari, anxiety

(I'm just putting this up as an interim post, to get the ball rolling, if you've got any ideas about how to do a better grander more beautiful yet easy to set up and contribute to IN/OUT list please leave a comment or email me, love L)

yesterday in my life

Yesterday was "day in the life day" at flickr. What this means is that I took my camera with me everywhere, took photos of things, then this morning spent 3 hours putting my photos up, adding comments and tags, and trying to look at other people's photos. It was fun - here's my 21 Dec 04 set.

Given that over 300 people signed up for the day, and given that we're all trying to load our photos at the same time, and tag them, and put them in groups etc it's a very good test of the flickr system.

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Meanwhile I've been testing out wikis - I've just found out that I've been "granted" a third. I will have to work out what to do with them all, and the best way to encourage other people to work with them and me! Also this post is being brought to you by the letter "E" rather than the letter "S" - explorer and safari that is - as I thought that Blogger was not really satisfying my blogging demands in Safari, but we shall see if it delivers the goods any gooder in Explorer.

"I'm not myself today"

On the bus last night, the guy sitting in front of me had two sheets of paper. The first sheet had a story about Alfred Bloggs - dustman, who was so embarassed by his job that he hadn't told his wife about it, and was looking for something a bit more Corporate, even at a reduced salary. It made me laugh because back in the 1980s my brother wrote about the adventures of Fred Bloggs for every composition he had to do for school, until the teacher told him "No more Fred Bloggs."

The second sheet of paper was covered in phrases in English, with translations and explanations in Chinese script, useful phrases like:

I have a runny nose.
I'm not myself today.
I have a sweet tooth.
The sooner the better.
I wasn't born yesterday.
It's my treat.
I'm mad about Bruce Lee.

Almost antique.

tonight's route W0512

Fast Company | 2005 Fast 50
article about flickr, what they've achieved over the last year
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Fast Company | Keeping SCORE
article about Frank Leibold who coaches entrepreneurs via email through SCORE ... asks a lot of questions and keeps contact with people who answer the questions.
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Business Toolbox
at SCORE, has a number of things that I could use - workshops, quizzes, templates for business plans - despite the site being for Americans.
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Apple - Pro/Design - Fabrice Frere
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via Adam
"An adolescent culture is one that lives on the surface, unencumbered by memory, light on knowledge and devoid of wisdom." Martin Jacques in the Guardian
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | We're all teenagers now
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Log Book
keeping track of what you are doing and thinking, and the results of that
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Calendar - Standards Based Calendar Client Project
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I've gone off investigating GTD - the abbreviation for a system/book called Getting Things Done
43 Folders: How does a nerd hack GTD?
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Life Balance software for Palm OS, Macintosh and Windows
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CommunityWiki: WhatIsAffordance

finished

Yes, yes - I've finished, and handed in all of my work.

Yesterday I took the "Writing Online" report into uni, handed it to Eva, and rushed away. Very happy to be done. So hopefully I'll pass everything, and next year I'll be getting my degree. Nice. I hope.

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Tim gave me a book as a present for finishing - "the River Cottage cookbook: as seen on Channel Four" - (or not seen as the case may be). It's by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, he apparently was a chef at the River Cafe. The book is about him growing vegetables, and fruit, and rearing pigs and chickens. He lives in Dorset, up river from West Bay. Excellent.

see here www.rivercottage.net