James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.

James Thornett
Archive for June, 2007
…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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]