The volume of comments this week has meant the “Recent Comments” list at the bottom of each page changes far faster than most readers can track. I’ll see if I can fix that over the long weekend. Suggestions welcome.
Now I’m Twittering
For those that haven’t noticed, I’ve finally caved in and started using Twitter. Twitterings at twitter.com/stilgherrian and in the sidebar of the website. I now have the joy of figuring out how this new data feed will be useful for me (and you). Stand by.
Quatrefoil is not quadrapop
Oh, I should mention that Quatrefoil and quadrapop, who comment here, are two completely different women. There has been confusion in certain quarters, however.
Corey t-shirts available, website traffic doubles
Yes, Corey t-shirts are now available from BustedTees.
While it’s a day since Alex Willemyns posted this, one still wonders what took them so long. They had hours! Will Corey demand a cut of the profits. Or are the shirts are already courtesy of his agent?
Alex also posts what I agree is one of Corey’s best quotes.
Over the past couple of days, traffic to this website has doubled thanks to people eager for Corey news.
I’d particularly like to commend the 48 people who were searching for “corey delaney naked”. Class act, folks.
Are you someone’s user-generated content?
Brian Clark has published an excellent piece which explains why I prefer to publish things here, on my own website, rather that on my Facebook profile. Worth reading in its entirety, but it concludes: “Valuable content on a site you own is a classic win-win for readers and the site owner, while publishing on Facebook is a lopsided relationship that favors Zuckerberg and his data-hoarding cronies. While I think social networking is useful in small quantities, I’ve no interest in becoming someone’s user-generated content, especially at the expense of my privacy.”
New year, new website header
Just in case you’re wondering how I made the new header image on the website, I’ve used the same technique as the previous one. I’ve taken a slice from a semi-random photograph and stretched it.
The source image is a random (and not very good) photo I took in Bangkok’s Chinatown. In Photoshop, I took a one-pixel deep slice through the middle of the image somewhere, then stretched that out to create the vertical stripes. I then tweaked the contrast and saturation — but not the underlying colour hue — until I had a “pleasing” result.
The previous image was a slice through the girders of Sydney Harbour Bridge, with the grey evening sky in the background — the whole scene blurred by smoke.
I must admit, I’m quite attracted to impressionistic views of the world. That’s why I like Trevor Paglen‘s work.