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Okay, now that I'm here, in the company of a lot of very nice Germans and with a French host or several, I'm feeling very European, which is a damn fine thing. I might brush up on my language skills. Who knows?

But whatever, I am going to investigate the blogging capacity of Ipernity because I have a hungry little local website to feed with at least a photo a week, more if I can.

And so, does anyone know how to do blogging direct from a photo, or do we have to grab the html?

So having shuffled through the deluge of superb alternatives to the dreaded F word, have a growing presence on Zoooomr, a slightly bizzzarro set of new acquaintances on Multiply and one or two coats on hooks in um Tabblo and Sevenload, I think it's might be time to start making choices.

So: the multiplicity photos are going on Multiply! That one was easy. The web presence is going to get properly sorted. Again. So that the best of the rest will go to brendadada.com and brendadada.net in some better semblance of order than is there right now. Thinking of making a Clikpic portfolio interface on the .com and shifting the blog and its links to .net. Must also get something done about a domain and hosting for the ~Man in the White Suit~ blog. And there's also a great deal of anticipation building for Pete's new home-designed site for Northern Englanders. Hmm. If you are following any of this, hooray, please feel free to make suggestions. If you're not, do go ahead and make suggestions anyway. :)

But where to put the village photos? Here? Sevenload? Might just leave them where they are. As long as the pro- account lasts, they'll be visible by me anyway, or as a click-through or something, but who knows? It's the newer ones, the photos that haven't yet been taken, that present the difficulty. Ah well, time will resolve that one too, no doubt. Nice problem to have, ha!

Rain, rain, rain and yet more rain is forecast. Fabulous for photos. Might even have to dig out some pictures of Blackpool in the rain. Lovely.

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Okay, I'm there, I think. There's such a lot of fine royalty-free music out there, and on my various hard drives, and there are so many unsung recipes garnered from cheffy friends over the decades lying about on scraps of paper, or in my head, so hey. I like blogging, but finding a definition, a set of specific perameters, isn't terribly easy. Might have found it at last, what do you think?

The recipe and food tags are going to live large on this site. And my rare grooves will slowly start seeing the light of tinterweb. Will look out Rob "The Rub" later today, and start to post the collection of his early work. And I'll keep on keeping on uploading the various versions of Bella Ciao I have stashed here somewhere. Could start on Ring of Fire, too! Heh. Might be minority listening, but feh, it amuses me.

That sound like a plan?

Oh and do we think the Google crawlers will take long to find us all here? I await the day with delight that brendadada on Ipernity is pageranked higher than bdada on Flickr. How long will that take, any betting?

Youtube surpasses itself on a day like today, and in the following days there will be more. This is my current favourite [link] Hurt. There will be more, no doubt. Please feel free to link to your own films, and your own favourites, like this film of Mark Thomas at the SOPCA demo in London.

Anyhow, Bliar: an emphatic good riddance. Although Gordon is unlikely to be any different.

It's only going to be a matter of time before we work out how to embed Yahootube videos into Ipernity, isn't it? Does anyone know?

In honour of this special day, have uploaded a couple of the uplifting toons from the Blair Ditch Project. Big up da Rub! ;)

What an interesting way to kill an hour at the end of the day. Watching indecipherable ubergeeks sitting on beabags in front of their MacBooks in a queue outside some American Applestore somewhere. And firing questions at TH for his live passers by. And some dead ones. And a wonky camera getting lots of crotch shots. My oh my that man has been eating far too many pies.

If you're trying out Zoooomr too, or even if you're not:

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Say hello to me on the live chat feed. :)

The Telegraph obitiary...

Foremost dispassionate industrial photographer, I first came across his pit head engineering documentary work back in the 70s. Will write more when it's less sleepytime late....