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I haven't been posting much here, I know. I've been posting quite a bit on Flickr, of which more anon, though, so feel free to head over there and take a look (I'm working on integrating my Flickr posts with this blog).

In the meantime, I thought I'd share an ad that just tickled me:

Called to be a Monk, Nun
or Priest? Take Free Online Test To see if God is calling you . . .
[URL removed]

Ah, the lazyweb. Good for everyone. 

There's a smallish set of my PyConUK photos on Flickr.

Am horribly tired, but in a nice way. My body is gently reminding me that it has been sat in plastic seats for two days in a row and that it would like to rest now, thanks ever so much. I shall allow it to do so shortly.

Cricket was fun, as usual. Sarah and I spent Saturday with my Dad and his partner, mostly watching England bat., though the highlight of the day was Darren Sammy's 7-66. Sunday, which Sarah and I attended on a whim and because we really had nothing better to do, we watched England bowl and, to our semi-delight, the West Indians bat pretty damn well. Should be an interesting day tomorrow (well, today actually), though now we're home we can't be bothered going back for a third day. Tickets are only a tenner though, if you're interested. Check it out here.

In other, more webby news, Violet Blue (still NSFW) has received an update from Flickr about her photos. Looks like they're trying to sort out their mess; strikes me as odd, though, that they didn't test things better before rolling out their new features. Still, its easy to criticise when you're not the one deploying the code.

Oh, bugger it. Google reader is understating the number of items I have yet to read as 100+. It's rather more than that, I think. I'm too tired for this; I'll post the other things I was going to post in the morning.

I've been saving up a couple of things to post. No, that's a lie. I've been meaning to post about a couple of things but keep finding other things to do. So I'm going to do bullet points instead for the sake of brevity. I might expand upon them later.

• Flickr is playing silly buggers with Violet Blue's photo stream.
  This doesn't affect me much since I use Flickr infrequently at best, but provides yet another example of social networking sites screwing up when it comes to censorship.
  [Edit]: Some people complaied that Violet's site isn't Work Safe. I'm semi sorry for not warning you (be thankful this isn't warrenellis.com).
  
  
• Modern parents are wrapping their kids in cotton wool (figuratively speaking).
  We knew this already, of course, because the world is Much Worse than it was in my day (i.e. around 1991). Strangely, my friends and I managed okay. But the media must be right, mustn't it?
  
  
• The Bible has been attacked as "obscene" in Hong Kong (via Warren Ellis ).
  I'll be honest: this one just amuses me.
  
  
• Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse looks, and is generally, amazing.
  More on this and Sandman and graphic novels in general to come.
  
  
• Cool things are coming for django_xmlrpc, including some excellent work by Reza Mohammadi. Well, I think they're cool anyway.
  
  
• Oh, and I set a date for starting Novel-the-Second. Isn't that exciting?
  

That's it for now. Off to Manchester tomorrow for the cricket. Take care in the meantime. Don't get eaten by anything will you?

I sometimes leave things in the oddest places:

No, I don't know why, either. 

[Addendum]

I forgot to move the pen after taking the photo. I'm that good.