Chawlk

1. Drawar
2. Fenxy
3. Decaflon
4. Two Credits
5. Wriging
6. Loose Suits
7. Chixe
8. Dud3s
9. Wing Colors

 

My favourite shot by somebody else is 'Birth of the Ark Royal' by Edward Chambré Hardman (1950).

Out of my own I think this is one of my favourites

I'm actually trying out LorriM's idea and quite enjoying it :)

I can still enjoy a game of Mr Do on MAME :)

... and Worms (not the awful 3D versions though).

I've always loved René Magritte

I think everyone is different and finds their own level. If I haven't had enough sleep before a day out mountain biking it affects me noticably (not as much energy). I think it can have more of an impact than other factors like diet in some ways so shouldn't be neglected - I tend to get 6 or 7 hours typically but try and get early nights before a big day out cycling to make sure I'm fully recharged!

Incidentally, Dean Karnazes, the guy who ran the 50 marathons in 50 days makes do with about 4 hours a night!.

If you have a favicon then you just need some code in your page headers to point to it and then 9rules will pick that up. Like this:-

Netvibes looks like a nice personalised home page that can display feeds but it doesn't look much use if you have hundreds of feeds. The more traditional readers like Bloglines or Newsgator seem to do that job and only that job very well. Just seeing a tree containing your new unread feeds in folders makes for easy access straight to the ones you're looking for.

Bloglines has an added bonus of being able to generate email addresses that allow you to use them for a mailing list to turn it in to a feed. I used to subscribe to the BBC Comedy blog but it disappeared and they replaced it with a weekly newsletter - so I subscribed using a bloglines email address and got my feed back :)

I tried a lot of different readers before sticking with the old favourite Bloglines. When I tried the new Google Reader I thought it had some nice touches but seemed to struggle rendering the HTML from some of my feeds in a way that made them hard to read. Bloglines looks basic, but it's a workhorse.

I love that alphabet idea LorriM :) I'll have to try that myself.

Just think about the things you'd do when you're not trying to think of something to photograph and start taking a camera out with you more whenever possible. You never know when inspiration will strike and you see something you'd like to photograph.

Personally I've learnt quite a lot from other people who use Flickr - and now that they have geotagging enabled and you can view maps with photographs on them, you might be surprised by some of the beautiful things that are around where you live and work and be inspired to make a few trips.

I always think open where it is in the current window is best. If I want to open it in a new tab or window then I can right-click and choose one of those two options.

It must be the case that most links are opened in the current window, or we'd all have a huge amount of tabs or windows open after an half hour of surfing! ;)

A Squeezebox - Fantastic little things :)

Personally I'd like to see Maggie Thatcher go during '07

I mean, just look at her - she's evil! ;)

I use del.icio.us as well - publicenergy

The problem with playing stuff you already have goes away for premium users - the player has a discovery mode which removes any of your own stuff from other radio stations.

The recommendations can be fine tuned a little in the web control panel but it's not perfect by any means. I use Pandora as well (or rather OpenPandora) and that is probably more successful at finding me new stuff I like - but it doesn't have the social side of things that last.fm has.

The main thing I like is the radio. They have their own client but you can play them inside the pages as an alternative. My favourite radio stations though are the 'Recommendations' radio and the 'Neighbours' radio. The first one plays songs that it thinks i'll like based on what I've listened to before. The Neighbours radio is good because it plays tracks from other last.fm users who have played a lot of similar stuff. It's a good way for me to discover new music.

Tracks,artists and albums also get tagged by the users and you can listen to a radio station based on a tag. So you could say I want to listen to music with the tags - melancholy and piano (or whatever).

The actual radio application is very good - while you're playing music in iTunes or similar, this will keep itself up to date with artist and song information from last.fm and have links to other things you might like. While listening to music like this, you can tag your own music and also either ban it from playing ever again on your radio or mark it as loved. Each user has a 'loved tracks' radio station containing all of your favourites.

More recently I've been impressed with their personalised gigs page - based on what I've been listening to, they trawl the gig listings based on my preferences (distance) and give me a list of gigs I might like.

The social aspect is that friends can send each other recommendations that will then appear in your recommendations radio station, and you can see what your friends are listening to on their profiles and leave remarks. You can also see which gigs your friends are going to.

I think though that it's one of those things that you have to use for a while and explore and you'll start to get more and more out of it. The radio application is probably the quick fix show me what it does way in to all this though if you want to get straight in!

My real favourites this year have been some little indie games - Naked War, Defcon and Gumboy Crazy Adventures.

I did like HL2EP1 while it lasted as well :)

The Prestige did it for me - even with David Bowie's unusual accent :p, but there are some highly regarded films I've not seen yet - Pan's Labyrinth being the main one.

This just reminded me of going in to a record store in Nottingham years ago and browsing the 'industrial' section. When I got to the section labelled Ministry, there was a 12" plastic sleeve in there with a note stuck in the front stating that due to the bands sad decline, they could now be found in the soft metal section next to Kiss!

I went to see Ghost Dance at Rock City - sometime in 1988. I don't remember them being any good - it was cheap to get in though!

What I do remember is hearing Danielle Dax's Big Hollow Man and I still love that track today - the same can't be said of Ghostdance! :P

I couldn't live without my Gorillapod's now! I started off with the little version because I use a little Canon compact camera to take infrared shots which can need long exposures and the Gorillapod was small enough to take out without being a major hassle. It's proved to be a lot more useful that I imagined though and I've had it stuck in all sorts of strange places! ;)

http://publicenergy.eu/gorillapod.html

Since using the small for a long time, I got myself a DSLR so I got hold of the larger Gorillapod - that stows quite nicely in my camera bag and can manage the extra weight of a big camera and lens.

I think I use it a lot because I was always leaving my tripod at home because I didn't want to carry it around and have the hassle of setting it up and placing it. Usually my photography is something I do while I'm out doing something else, and while I love it, I don't want to ruin the original activity by doing time consuming camera stuff!

So in summary, I love them and think they're great! :)

I love Lifecruiser's photo above! :)

Anyway, here's mine - culled from the most recent Flickr one of me...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/