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Taken a bit later, with a fully recharged battery and from where I am sitting!

http://monki.biz/1r

Publishing is a tough industry to be in, no doubt about it. Things are rapidly changing and market forces are being swayed beyond the traditional publisher's influence. Things are now so easy to share and distribute, that these old gate-keepers can no longer steer what people are looking at.

Took a couple of shots this frosty morning and then the battery ran out.

The film soylent green is about people being harvested for food. That's how I see Facebook. Your details are being harvested for business and advertising. Sure, it can be beneficial to stay in touch with each other, but there's a bigger price to pay. I've come to the decision that the amount of information I'm getting from other people isn't worth the price I'm paying for that lack of privacy and having my details flogged to advertisers. 

So, I've made a deal with myself to give up on facebook and see how it goes for a month. I'm not going to log in or check any status updates from facebook. However, I will continue to get stuff from twitter and blogs as they really offer interesting stuff. 

So, if you've stumbled here instead and we were friends on facebook, please don't take it personally, I just don't like being harvested. 

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stopped on my way home to take this shot

I wish I'd taken longer to take it, but it was on a narrow road. It captures the sense of what I wanted. I'll see if I can get a more please shot another day. 

and this beer tastes mighty fine. 

Birthday celebrations

I've been working on a little side project to learn programming (this is the year of coding apparently). 

http://www.reporteasy.co.uk

This is a little application that assists with writing pupil reports for teachers - it automates a lot of the text entry that often takes a long time. 

Peeps! Who should I be following on posterous?

I've signed up to google music - not sure if I like the way spotify is going. I don't like having to have a facebook account (not that I had one when I initially signed up) and I don't like the way spotify are going about publishing details about my music preferences even though I haven't signed up for it. 

So, for a while - goodbye spotify and hello google music.