Fitting the battle of life

As with all of my ‘great’ ideas, this one came at just the wrong moment – when I was scraping the bottom of my student account and had no spare cash.

I can’t remember how or when, but I had a sudden flash of a website that could be. The .co.uk domain was available, but I would have to wait a week or two to have any spare cash.

As it was, I got paid sooner than I thought, and bought socialphoto.co.uk. The name is the thing that struck me as a good one to buy; as yet I haven’t got too many solid ideas what to do with it (apart from keep it as my own).

Luck started pouring in after that initial bout – my uncle offered me (very generously!) free webhosting, so I was quickly able to install WordPress 2.7 with very few troubles (having done a WP install once before at debating.org).

For now it’s going to be serving as something of a dedicated photoblog for myself, with this blog reserved for ramblings and random stuff, but we’ll see if I get any cool ideas in the near future.

Just thought I’d hilight one of the Ubuntu Open Week sessions I attended yesterday, a very informative and useful talk from Tony Whitmore of the Ubuntu-UK Podcast on Media Production using Ubuntu. You can read the log here. It was a good overview of the apps you might need to produce video, photography and audio using open source – well worth a read if you have ten mins or any interest in multimedia.

I recently submitted a couple of photographs to be used in the rotating header images on the Ubuntu UK website, and they’ve made it onto the page!

This is one of St. Pauls from South Bank in London, and the other is an arty shot taken from a punt in Cambridge last summer. Check out the site and see if it pops up!