Have a read of the article. I’m too modest to suggest a link between good taste and my photography!! But I’m glad to be in such good company. Although there’s a certain irony that I’m a vegetarian.

Edit: I don’t know why but Flickr says the photo is not available. But if you click it, you will be taken to it’s page on flickr.

My Calendar Says

I was sitting at my desk one day, bored, when my eyes settled on the calendar on my desk. Usually, the advice or saying seems to mean something but mostly it’s rubbish.

Then I wondered about all the other calendars out there today? Calendars in other countries, other cultures? And that’s why this blog exists. Hopefully it’ll also be a bit of fun.

So please take a moment - your calendar is right there beside you on your desk - and enter what advice you got today.

http://twotitsandavote.com/ (from http://sabrinadent.com/)

Two Tits and a Vote is a political action campaign, designed to get women to use their muscle as voters to take action around a single issue at a time. Men are very welcome to take part; the platform is merely aimed at mobilising women.

It’s built around the concept of “armchair activism.” Armchair activism enjoys reasonable take-up online, but is often decried as ultimately being rather useless because it rarely translates into the real world. I started to think a lot about how to merge all of the good stuff about armchair activism – it’s fast, it’s accessible, it’s not a big ask, and it delivers a feel-good factor to the participant – with actions that could actually take form in the real world.

It’s not a complete list of what I read daily but it’s the cream of the crop.

Enjoy!

Italics

Bold

Image below

<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/isadub/1873139491/” title=”Photo Sharing”><img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/1873139491_bc858019ed_m.jpg” width=”240″ height=”161″ alt=”Skip” /></a>

The flickr link above is what flickr says you’re supposed to do… The link below is ‘just’ the photo’s url.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/1873139491_bc858019ed_m.jpg

Anyhow, if you comment and I don’t post your comment, sorry. It’s likely that you’ve been caught in the spam filter and I simply don’t have the time to go through it anymore.

The main advantage of squible was that the current information was ‘above the fold’ (to use a newspaper analogy) while the ‘back story’ (flickr, lastfm, facebook etc) was beneath ‘the fold’. Using ‘above’ and ‘below’ the fold, I’m talking about the user having to scroll down the page. A viewer would visit my blog and see the ‘current’ news (posts and comments) on the main page. ‘If’ they wanted more info, they could scroll down the page (beneath the fold) and find out more info about me. This approach made sense to me?

Now, I’ve discovered the talian theme by Steve Arun. On first view, it looks really promising but I’ll have to customise it a bit. For example, I prefer ‘weighted categories’ rather than a simple, straight list of categories because a simple list really ‘lengthens’ the page and it doesn’t allow the viewer to see what’s important to the blogger. One advantage of this talian theme (which it shares with squible) is that it shows the recent comments at the top of the front page. In other words, it’s easy for visitors to see what’s interesting and what’s not. I’m just going to add a gratuitous emoticon here to see what happens because squibble didn’t handle them properly….

P.S. Talian handles emoticons ok but it may not handle italics (italic test) ok. More testing required…

Upgrading to wordpress 2.2 has broken a few things on the layout. I don’t know if I’ll be able to fix it?

If you commented on something recently, I may have deleted your post as there were approx 1,000 spam comments waiting for me when I logged in. I just deleted them all. So if you’re not in the ‘Recent Comments’ box on the front page, I’ve deleted you. Sorry

Anyhow, her current contract is up and she’s looking for work. She’s considering offers over at gissajob.

Ciao, my darlings
isadub