Managed to grab a few shots of my brother's Pug in the garden in one of the rare moments it stood still.

I spent this week making a list of as many ideas I could think of, so when I got to the weekend I would at least have something to work from. I've always wanted to take some black and white shots of my bass guitar to use as a desktop wallpaper, this is the one I liked best

This year I have decided to start a new photo challenge, Project 52 - To post one photo a week for the whole year. I didn't give myself much time to get the first photo shot, so I looked around the house for something interesting. In the end I settled on using my Wife's Jelly bean dispenser. So now I have started, only 51 more photos to go. If you are starting a similar photo challenge, let me know. I'd like to follow along and get some fresh ideas, then steal them. ;-) Update: Just noticed that comments weren't working, they are fixed now.

I have just released an ad supported version of my photo location tracking android app. If you are interested in photography and would like a way to keep track of photo opportunities check it out.

I have now released an android app I have been working on recently. Photo Scope allows you to take photos with your phone and keep track of where each one was taken, so you can return when you have your camera or maybe when the weather is better and take the perfect shot. You can take a look here for more details.

Well here it is, the last shot in the challenge. I've quite enjoyed it this week, I post a follow-up over the weekend with some more thoughts but for now the last image...

Really ran short on time today, which I think is reflected in todays image. In the end I just played around using the contents of my pockets. I think I'd better start planning for tomorrow.

Here is my shot for day 5, it is St. Patrick's day after all. Only two more days left...

I took a walk today during lunch and discovered this statue in a local park.

And now for the third image this week, I'm not really too happy with todays shot, I will hopefully get outside during lunch tomorrow.

Today is day 2 of my 7 day photo challenge, so here is todays shot of a glass of red wine. It was quite interesting trying to find something to shoot for today, I tried several things but I eventually decided on this glass of red wine.

I have challenged myself to take a photo every day this week starting today, I am doing this to force myself to spend less time working on my photos ( and to publish pictures more often). I generally spend too much time playing with photos and seldom actually put them online for any one to see. Here is todays shot of a rose I took this afternoon. I would love to have people join me in this challenge, so I have created a flickr group for it.

I took my newly purchased 50mm f1.8 lens to the Chinese New Year celebrations in Liverpool, I have uploaded a few shots to flickr. I'm still getting used to getting my composition right without being able to alter the focal length. Update: Fixed the white balance on the images to remove the blue tint.

After getting back from a holiday where I got quite annoyed by my point-and-shoot camera, I have decided to get back into photography again (yet another expensive hobby). I am planning to buy myself a Canon 450D DSLR, so I'm having a fund raising ebay adventure starting with my nokia N810. So if you are interested in buying one head on over to http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130291802752 and have a look.

The Open Rights Group is 3, and now has reached over 1000 fivers a month. To celebrate ORG have issued each of the first 1000 members with web badges, I have added my ORG badges into the sidebar. If you care about any of these: * Automatic Vehicle Tracking
* Copyright
* Creative Commons
* Data Protection
* DRM
* e-Voting
* Freedom of Information
* Identity
* Intellectual Property
* Net Neutrality
* Open Geodata
* Open Source
* Police Records
* Privacy
* Public Domain
* Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
* Release The Music
* RFID visit the site and sign up to help reach them target of 1500 fivers a month by December.

After watching the Packaging with version control systems talk by Martin F. Krafft ( thanks debconf video team ). I really want to update my packaging workflow, Martin's workflow seems too complicated to me. I'd like to have a simplified version for my packages. The question is though which VCS do I choose, I have experience of bzr but have never used git or mercurial. Changing my packaging workflow is not something I want to be doing too often, so I would like to make the "right" choice from the outset. So to that end I will be trying each major Distributed VCS, and looking at the associated packaging helpers to decide on which to use. If you have any insight or opinions on this, please leave a comment or mail me.

Just over three weeks ago I started a new job, I left my position as a Network Manager to start a job as a Linux Consultant. On my last day I was given a rather generous collection from everyone there. The purpose of this post is to show everyone that the money was well spent, the picture shows the books and DVDs that I bought. Thanks guys.

Ah, back to Epiphany this week and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open then again each time it started. It was during the switch when I realised that in order to continue with the pages I had open in Firefox I would have to bookmark them before I switched. Now that I am back using Epiphany I'd like to let people know about my favourite feature, tag based bookmarks. Instead of placing each bookmark in a folder, you simply tag each one like del.icio.us and a bookmark hierarchy is built automatically. So if you haven't tried out Epiphany recently, or at all. Please give it a try. Now if I could just get Epilicious to sync with del.icio.us properly I'd be very happy.

Daniel, mine seem to like cheese and onion crisps. So maybe the whole batch is faulty.

There seems to have been a lot of talk recently about using Open Source software for social networking, which has been something that has been at the back of my mind for quite a while now. If you could take a web site and using the presence information and IM features from jabber, you already have the beginnings of a social networking or community site. The main advantage I can see is that anyone could start their own social networking site, rather than joining one of the larger existing (closed source) sites or basing a community around a web forum (which I tend to avoid if at all possible). Now if I can just properly gather my thoughts on this I would start some coding.