Here comes the sun

Thank you Icky Pic for the above photo, long may the sun continue (at least for Wimbledon). At last something really easy. I haven't had any reason to use Flickr before, except for the pictures that are integrated into Google Earth which is an awesome feature of an awesome application; it enabled me to follow where my brother had been on one of his holidays, so I knew what and where he was talking about. However I will certainly be using Flickr more in future because there is a veritable goldmine of wonderful photos on there. I immediately added RSS feeds of Sir Cam's and bookporn's photo galleries onto my iGoogle page (no screen capture as I'm on the wrong computer). I've also added Google Analytics to my blog, not much yet but it's only been one day. I particularly love bookporn's latest absolutely beautiful photo of a dilapidated building with decaying books, which I can't add to this blog either due to copyright issues. Check it out for yourself, it's titled "Last Folio." I'm always frustrated looking for photos via Google Images and with the tag option on Flickr, searches should be much more interesting and hopefully relevant, should being the operative word whenever tagging is involved... I've no need to create my own account though as I already have a shared gallery my brother set up. Me and my family use it to show each other what we have been up to, for holiday picture slideshows (often over Skype) and just to show off our prowess with a camera. Here's one of the gems:


That was taken at the Barcelona Open this year. It was the only opportunity I had of a photo with Rafael Nadal as he did vamos; he never even turned up to the tournament, but I've forgiven him. The gallery's particularly useful as my eldest brother lives in Barcelona and he's always off somewhere, so we can keep track as to what he's been up to. However as an image bank, there is nothing quite like Flickr. Here is an awesome photo I found, which is very apt at the moment:

Thank you Kol Tregaske who caught Andy Roddick out practising on one of the Wimbledon courts the day before he won in such stunning, strong and supreme fashion last night. I want him to win this year as I can't think of last year's final without tears coming to my eyes. Come on Roddick!

Mindboggling iGoogle

I used iGoogle for the first time yesterday, if only to check the weather. Incidently, it's fine all week, though we might get rained on on Sunday. Whoever said the British were preoccupied with the weather was absolutely right, or them saying that may have made us that way. Anyway, such musings are sending me off on one of my regular tangents. I'm trying to remember to load iGoogle first thing in the morning, getting into a habit is always hard and then it kicks in and it's like you never lived your life any other way. The problem is, my work has a shared Google calendar which is set up with our work email address, this is for our timetables, meetings and so we know where everyone is, but my iGoogle page is set up under my own email address, so I can't have both up at the same time. After a while it seems to log out of whichever one I'm not logged in on if you see what I mean, or if I try to add something to the calendar or change something on my iGoogle page, I won't be able to as I'm logged in on the other account. I have the calendar open all the time as it's very useful, and the quick links on the iGoogle page, such as COPAC and the Cam23 RSS feed, are also very useful and it'll kind of defeat the object of them if I have to sign in again. Also, after the initial eager adding of stuff, changing the theme and customising my page, I kind of got bored, in the same way I got bored joining groups, adding applications and finding friends on facebook. However I am annoyed my hamster seems to have escaped, either that or the application has failed to load. So I'm not sure how often I'll actually use it, though it is nice to start the day with the weather forecast, an inspirational literary quote and a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Here's today's: