little bits of everything

I got an enquiry from someone wanting to use one of my flickr photos on their website. It got me thinking about the licensing on my photos. I deliberately chose to reserve all my copyright rights when I put them up there, but that enquiry has prompted me to share them under a Creative Commons license, known as "Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0". That person will still have to buy the right to use it, if they want, but for non-commerical uses you can use them. I'm a big fan of Creative Commons as a consumer - I sometimes get CC photos from flickr, or download CC music from magnatune.com .

Jan and Feb are my two least favourite months of the year. Dark evenings, cold and wet days. However I'm lucky to have somewhere to live. Which brings me to the Wycombe Winter Night Shelter, a project organised by several churches in High Wycombe (UK). It provides a bed for the night for homeless people for January to March. I'm not taking part in this in any way, so I'm not blowing my own trumpet even though our church ( Union Baptist ) is involved. I'm very pleased to see how many people have volunteered. One of the volunteers is a journalist and has written an article about it. Update for 2009: It is running again and Wycombe Winter Night Shelter now have their own website. Hopefully with that link they will rank higher than my blog on Google!

On the Washington National Cathedral you can find Darth Vader.

I'm very impressed with the online version of the BBC iplayer. It even goes up to 11:

A cloud of sheep Originally uploaded by paulmorriss I thought this was great. I went to the trouble of turning round on my bike and coming back to take it. However on Flickr, only one person has looked at it. At the moment.

Sparklers Originally uploaded by paulmorriss Bonfire night. Great fun.

This is very exciting. DRM free MP3 downloads from Amazon. You can get The Wall by Pink Floyd for £4.50. 256kbs too, so not the best, but not bad either.