No blogging about journalism right now - I'm tired and ratty (persuade your parents not to die - it's just too much damn hard work clearing up after them) and anything I try to write comes out as either a rant or a complaint, and I'd like to be a little more positive.
So, here's a couple of fun things.
First of all, if you haven't seen the wave of cartoon-style icons spreading across the internet in the last 72 hours, you haven't been paying attention. They're from a site called Face Your Manga, and I'm strangely pleased with mine.
I've also set up a group on Flickr for people in the UK interested in using the iPhone's often crappy camera for some vaguely artistic photography. I rather like the uphill challenge of doing something good with something rather poor. This, for example, was shot on an iPhone:
Feel free to stop me feeling lonely in this effort in iPhone Photography UK. Members at present: 1. Ah, well.
So, here's a couple of fun things.
First of all, if you haven't seen the wave of cartoon-style icons spreading across the internet in the last 72 hours, you haven't been paying attention. They're from a site called Face Your Manga, and I'm strangely pleased with mine.
I've also set up a group on Flickr for people in the UK interested in using the iPhone's often crappy camera for some vaguely artistic photography. I rather like the uphill challenge of doing something good with something rather poor. This, for example, was shot on an iPhone:
Feel free to stop me feeling lonely in this effort in iPhone Photography UK. Members at present: 1. Ah, well.
Yes, life is rotten like that some times. Having to sort out all the practicalities after the death of someone close is often the very last thing you want to be faced with there and then.
Me, I tend to be left with the funeral orations, or reading the poems rather, and writing the obituaries, but I have done the clearing-house-job as well. And I find it very hard to blog when I'm in a bad mood (somtimes I've toyed with the idea of setting up a lyrical, depressed, nevrotic, navel-gazing blog in Norwegian - which I think might go well with certain Norwegian cultural traits, as well as the blogosphere here - but I'd never be able to keep it up + the tone of a blog does tend to determine what kind of audience you attract. As it is, I already have a great bunch of readers at my current blog, who's comments often put a smile on my face no matter how grumpy I feel, or want to feel:-) )