Just thought you'd like to know that the pictures I took during my trip to DC are now up on Flickr. Lots of the snow, and lots of the zoo, and several of the zoo in the snow.

Kate and I have finally taken some photos of the jewellery I made (with her assistance) on the weekend. They don't really do the glass justice, so when I get back to Dorset I might well have a stab at doing some more.



Kate's jewellery really is gorgeous - if you want to buy some from her (and it's all for sale) then drop her a line. She'll even do you a custom-made piece if you'd like.

Ed: Any zombies out there?
Shaun: Don't say that.
Ed: What?
Shaun: That.
Ed: What?
Shaun: That! The Z-word. Don't say it.
Ed: Why not?
Shaun: Because it's ridiculous.
Ed: Alright. Are there any out there though?

The story goes, and I think it was Jonas who told me this, that the guy who built the Sutro Tower made it look the way it looks because he liked the idea of the Devil looking down on San Francisco. Get it from the right angle, and you can certainly see Satan.

Anyway, more pics on Flickr.

Some fantastic photos of a tornado in Bunbury, Western Australia. (Via Cam.)

UPDATE: Thanks to the commenter who pointed out that these photos are part of a set that's been doing the rounds on email/blogs for a while. Wherever they come from, they are fantastic photos.

Came across the most fantastic set of pictures on Flickr today of Macs with 'transparent screens'. Some of them just look amazing, particularly this gorgeous one of a cat:



So, me being me, I had to have a stab at doing my own. It's not brilliant, because I was running out of battery on my camera and I have those nasty lines on my Tibook screen to contend with, but it's mine and I did it:

Mae Nic wedi dechrau defnyddio Flickr, ac mae popeth yn y Gymraeg. Lluniau neis iawn, Nic. Diolch am rannu!

Ond... Dw i newydd gweld oedd Nic yn arfer byw yn Cathays Terrace, c. 93. O'n i'n arfer byw yn Cathays Terrace, c. 93, hefyd. Spŵci.

cymraeg

OK, crappy photo, but it was a dimly lit auditorium and I wasn't exactly right under their noses. There was someone there taking proper photos, so maybe they will appear on the ScriptFactory's site or somewhere.

I signed up for a Flickr account ages ago - before I'd even moved CnV from Blog-City to Blogware so it must have been early March - but although I've been signed up for months, it's taken me until now to start uploading photos. The impetus was wanting to post photos from last weekend's drinks with Joi, Cory, Tom and a raft of other lovely people, but not really wanting to blog about it all.

Anyway, I have to say that now I've used it, I really like Flickr. It's easy to upload and tag photos, it's fun when people leave comments on them, and because Flickr doesn't require any standard file size or anything, I don't have to resize in Photoshop. I just maybe crop and tweak.

It's also easy to see what other people are uploading and to explore their photo albums. Plus, you have an RSS and an Atom feed, and I think the pro version does even more than the free one. So yes, I'm a convert.

So, finally, I've started to upload my photos from Vienna and BlogTalk2 for your delight and pleasure. Enjoy!