Vanity

January 2010

My catch of the day at the Huka Falls Prawn Park

A new decade – a new start?

It would be nice to be able to resurrect this space and do some “fun” writing again. The pressures of the last eighteen months have meant that, apart from tiny Twitter-bytes, I haven’t done any real writing about [...]

Stories

Darrell Hill was an illustrator and worked with the Department of Information in Vietnam in 1967-68. While he served he took thousands of 35mm pictures and slides of what he saw. After leaving Vietnam he had the slides in storage for several years but when he moved on decided to get rid of them.

Years later, [...]

Flickr Startr

A good place to get started with Flickr: Webware’s Newbie’s Guide to Flickr

Gt Barrier

As a small business person, I often find it difficult to get away from it all. Even though the bulk of my work comes from schools or from people who work around schools, I find that I am quite busy even during school holidays. Also, increasingly I’m finding that, people expect computer technicians to be [...]

Fastr

Are you having trouble teaching people how keywords operate?

Here is a fun little activity using Flickr images. It’s called Fastr. The object of the game is to guess the tag that the ten images have in common. If you guess quickly you get more points than if you guess later (because more pictures are [...]

Camera Clean Out

It’s a New Year, a New Start. Yes the capitalisations are on purpose.

I have so much to do. So I’ve started with a camera clean out. Here is a link to our holiday snaps on Flickr.

Flickr is a fabulous tool. It’s not just about getting the contents of your camera up onto the web [...]