Eek! I don’t want SnapShots icons on every single link of my beautiful del.icio.us tag cloud. It makes it look all yucky.

If Erik Wingren (User Experience guy at SnapShots) is reading this, is there anything I can do to selectively prevent the icons displaying?

A couple of nights a go, I had a go with del.icio.us (which I struggle to spell, let alone get the dots in the right places!). I registered a bit back but, once logged in, had absolutely no idea what to do next. Someone suggested I install a delicious (sack the dots!) extension for Firefox. There turned out to be three available (when I searched Firefox’s extensions) so I installed the Yahoo! one (Yahoo! own delicious now).

Rather nicely, after installation, it launched a wizard that stepped me through importing my bookmarks from my local Firefox file. They imported okay and were saved as private. I then did some spring-cleaning and deleted out-of-date bookmarks, then tagged and re-tagged others. The imported bookmarks were automatically tagged according to the bookmark folders they’d been in, which was helpful.

So, anyway, here are my delicious tags. If you click through a tag, you’ll see the bookmarks that I’ve classified with that tag.

Yesterday, I was gently prodded into Twittering more frequently. I signed up for Twitter about a week ago but had only posted a couple of times. Apparently some people at work noticed that I’d joined and were ‘following’ me, which is nice.

So I acquiesced and have since written a few ‘tweets’. I now apparently have 8 followers. )

I did just try to add my Twitter badge to the side of my blog but it doesn’t fit the design of my website. Probably a good thing because my blog is gradually filling up with badges. Maybe I should find a new theme…

I recently started writing a blog at work. Lots of IBMers seem to be doing it – in all different languages too.

Anyway, I realised that most of what I write there (all of two posts so far!) is fine to go on my external blog too. Hence, two blogs for the price of one! )

Which explains today’s more prolific blogging than usual.

A couple of years back, a friend from work was doing an AS level in photography in her spare time and was given a piece of coursework to complete over Easter. So she figured it’d be a good chance to have a girlie day out and we (me and some other work friends) could be her models.At first we were slightly apprehensive about exactly what we would be modelling… But she soon put our minds at rest and said we’d be going up to Avebury standing stones for the day to pretend to be fantasy warrior characters a la Lord of the Rings etc.

So one windy Sundy in April, Katja, Tess, me, and Keren (as shown in the piccie to the right) dug through the supplied sack of costumes to create ourselves as characters for the photoshoot. We spent much of the day running around fields with plastic swords (or, in my case, the extremely sharp dagger that you can see in the photo).

We had a great time but as the day went on, we got more and more tired and cold, which probably added some authenticity to the scenes.

The best of the photos are tagged avebury on Flickr. My friend passed her assessment and we all went along to the exhibition and felt just a little bit important as we wandered around and admired ourselves on display.

p.s. And while we’re on the subject, I quite like this one, which isn’t tagged as avebury but is the result of my friend more recently playing with her graphics package. I like the soft-focus, air-brushed effect.