Category Archives: Links

Making my own postcards

OK, that didn’t take long to convince myself. I’ve ordered a set of postcards from moo.com using these pictures:

Lord Byron’s Wallpaper

Newstead Abbey

From our Newstead Abbey trip last week

Council House Dome

Council House Dome

The inside of the domed roof over the main staircase in the Council House.

Ghandi Statue

Ghandi

Statue of Ghandi, just behind the main staircase in the Council House

Green’s Mill

Green's Mill, Sneinton, Nottingham

Picture Green’s Mill, Sneinton – I just love the greens and blues of the grass and sky in this. I’ve given consent for the picture to be used in publicity around National Mill Day or somesuch.

Sunset

Sunset

That really striking orange sunset we had a few weeks ago, seen from our street.

Linky linky II

I’ve been spending a scant half-hour on the Flickr blog and found several interesting things.

Mainly Photojojo, which has lots of interesting tips, tricks and tutorials.

They also have Time Capsule, an interesting gizmo that delves into your own Flickr photos from last year and emails interesting ones to you. I signed up and it sent me this, from last March when I was up to my neck in leaflets for the elections in Nottingham and Chesterfield.

30,000 leaflets

There was also a link to Postcrossing an interesting idea that has obviously grown from Bookcrossing. On Postcrossing, you register your name and address and then click a button to get addresses from other users around the world. You send a postcard to someone on the other side of the planet, and in return the website will have a postcard sent to you from somewhere else. I’ve registered, and got addresses in Finland, France, Spain, Germany and Canada. Should keep me busy for a wee while!


Postcards

Obviously, Flickr’s great for photographs, but I’ve been paying a bit of attention to the social and discussion sides too, since discovering there’s going to be a national Flickrmeet in Nottingham. We’re also having a little local meet in Newstead next Saturday.

Stuff white people like

Post of the Week this week flagged up, amongst other worthies, “Stuff white people like” which is quite entertaining.  POTW suggested #90, Dinner Parties was good, and I rather like #88, Having Gay Friends. Judging by the huge, huge numbers of comments, other people rather like it too.

It’s a rather jaundiced view of white guys, and if you’re not prepared to admit it’s you, you will at least know people like that.

I’m going to have to read it back through time, and add it to the blogroll.

Congrats to Lynne Featherstone

Lynne Featherstone thinks she has become the first MP to use Twitter. She’s not entirely right, Alan Johnson had a go during his Labour deputy leadership campaign, but stopped when he didn’t get in, so that probably doesn’t count.

I’ve written about this at length over on Lib Dem Voice, so I’m not going to duplicate it here.

In the process of writing the piece, I signed up for Barack Obama’s twitter feed, and I’ve just received an email from the Twitterbot:

Hi, Alex Foster.

Barack Obama (BarackObama) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out Barack Obama’s profile here:

http://twitter.com/BarackObama

Best,
Twitter

This means I can now send him direct messages. It’s nice to know I have a direct line to one of the most powerful men on the planet.

Speaking of the most powerful men on the planet, I did try and send a direct message to Iain Dale whilst writing the LDV piece, but unfortunately, unlike Barack Obama, Iain doesn’t follow me. I was trying to find out if any Tory MPs twitter, figuring if anyone knew, it would be Iain.

While I was trying to google Twitter Conservative, I did find this reaction to this post about a guy live-twittering his wife’s er, accouchement, which I found entertaining. My friends who had a baby ten days ago have blogged about it in lots of fascinating gory detail, but not quite to that extent!