...and then it really started to rain.

...and then it really started to rain.
Originally uploaded by thornj.

Welcome to the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, pretty much midsummer (not Midsomer to those TV detective types out there!), and the day referred to as 21st June 2007 according my calendar.

Doesn't look like any of those outside my window.

We Feel Fine, do you?

Looking for an antidote to answering yet more friend requests on Facebook? Bored with watching all of your existing Facebook friends add yet more pointless and ridiculous applications to their profile and then expecting you to do the same?

Then try giving We Feel Fine just ten minutes of your time - "An exploration of human emotion, in six movements".


A social environment that is actually entertaining in itself and an enjoyable experience to browse and explore.


In a postscript to an earlier post, Neighbourhood Fix-It has now changed it's name to FixMyStreet, a much improved name by far.

The site continues to develop with the now fantastic addition of photos to illustrate reported problems, like this one for example. Any further questions then just check out their FAQ.

My photos in action

Following on from my previous post about who is linking to my Flickr photos I decided to use the crawling power of Technorati and the storage of del.icio.us to take a closer look.

It only took a matter of minutes to perform the search on Technorati, store the pages within del.icio.us tagged with a specific tag, and then find the code to export the results onto this blog,

Voila! :-


This method does assume that wherever a photo is used there is an accompanying link to my area on Flickr. Generally it is a link on the image itself, or on the accompanying credit.

If anyone should wish to steal an image of mine and not link back to my Flickr stream at all then this isn't going to be any good at catching them out.

However, that's not what it's for at all. I'm not in the photography game to make money (not yet at least!), and I'm more than happy for anyone to use my images wherever they please (provided they follow the terms of my Creative Commons License).

This is simply to bolster my ego (wow, someone has actually decided to use one of my pics), and to provide moments of interesting serendipity, such as finding this interesting piece on innovation simply because they happened to use one of my pics.

Oh, and because it's fun and easy to do!

From bad to worse

Not only is it, apparently, National Yo-Yo day tomorrow (although Wikipedia doesn't appear to recognise this historic fact), BlinkYou can help you celebrate the occasion with their delightful range of glitter graphics.

Go MySpace-decorate crazy!



Slightly more worrying is the indication from my Last.fm Weekly Top Artists widget (lower down this page on the right hand side) that last week I was mostly listening to myself - at least in the form of Satchel Blue anyway.

There is a reason for this, I promise, and it's entirely connected to our new album, February, which is getting excitingly close to being finished - more coming soon!