Picture In a Frame

Posted on 2007/07/27 08:07:48 (July 2007).

[Thursday 26th July]
The title comes from a Liane Carroll song of which I'm rather fond. It is tenuously appropriate for this entry given that the frame I ordered a couple of week's back arrived today. Given that the walls of our flat are somewhat bare, for Chie's birthday back in May I had got some large prints done of a couple of our wedding photos. Since then we've looked in all sorts of shops and never been able to find the right size frame - so eventually I decided the only thing we could do would be to have one specially made.

The frame arrived in the morning, so at lunchtime I popped out to buy picture hooks and a little hammer. Then in the evening we put it up on the wall. It's this picture, printed at 20" x 30", so what with the mounting and everything the frame is even bigger. It's a pretty striking effect, although the lounge still looks a bit odd, now having just one thing hung up on the wall rather than nothing at all...

Other than that, this evening I also went and took a look at Facebook for the first time, to see what all the fuss was about. Whilst it did certainly look a lot better than MySpace (which I had almost immediately hated), it didn't really seem like that much of a revolution to me. I'd already been using LinkedIn for a few years, and had also occasionally dabbled with FriendsReunited, and it basically seemed like not much more than a superset of those two. As far as social networking sites go, I was a lot more impressed by LastFM which uses your taste in music (by monitoring what you play in iTunes etc) to find people similar to you. That seemed to be a lot more about a worthwhile pursuit - finding like-minded people and expanding your taste in music - rather than the popularity contest "look how many friends I've got" that is Facebook (and even to some extent LinkedIn).

Oh and I forgot to mention mixi.jp which is also a similar (albeit Japanese only) sort of thing.

Posted by John at 2007/07/27 13:59:39.

Is it just me or are so many of these "social networking" sites just excuses for people with no social skills at all to pretend they are actually hip and happening, sparkly people?

Posted by Nigel at 2007/07/27 22:33:11.

Well Nigel, I have no social skills, and using these sites do not make me feel any better about myself...!

Posted by John at 2007/07/27 22:52:28.

I don't believe that for one moment, John!! To carry along the idiom of earlier posts, may I say: "Tosh!" ??

Posted by Nigel at 2007/07/27 23:14:19.

Social networking sites are the little more than phishing sites used by the internet naive.
Fill in a Questionaire on Myspace,
dob, what school you went to, which town you live in, full name, the name of their cats
and dogs, brothers and sisters.
- quick check on bt192 and you now know their exact address. Pop over to Friends Reunited, facebook etc
to collect some more personal details, if they fill this crap in then they probably hang out on other
random websites posting/answering questions - your identity is now pretty much stolen!

When will people realise the internet is a dangerous and PUBLIC place. You wouldn't walk up to a stranger
in your local high street and start telling them all about yourself including personal details would you!!!
Sorry for ranting on you blog page John, but you did bring it up lol :)

BTW thats a great picture of you in a dress :D

Posted by Kev at 2007/07/28 11:32:27.

Hey no problem Kev - feel free to rant away any time!

...I think you have probably raised some very valid points there.

Posted by John at 2007/07/28 13:54:27.

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