BBC NEWS | Scotland | Sporran wearers may need licence

BBC NEWS Scotland Sporran wearers may need licence
This was drawn to my attention by someone who wants to use one of my kilt photos on Flickr as an image to cover a news story on this!!
I'm amazed!
It's not even close to April 1st!

Sail Training

Last weekend I spend a couple of days teaching sailing up at Great Moor Sailing Club. I took a GPS unit with me to see how well it would track our movements - it did not bad! In fact I quite like the pattern left by the track on the lake - the image here is a screen shot from Google Earth. The sailors among you will probably be able to tell what level the course was from the number of "figures of eight". :-)

Would Google have done this?

restricted bunny
Originally uploaded by bettermo

I've neglected this blog for a little too long. This topic however demands that I write something. The image is from one of my good contacts - the lovely Mo. As a Flickr user in Germany she finds herself subject to unanounced "censorship" by Flickr!! Basically they have no option to access materials that someone else has deemed (often incorrectly) as inappropriate. Flickr don't like the word "censorship" to be associated with them (see here)- but what they have done amounts to the same thing. And the way they have done it is amazing. It's sad to see a once very customer focused organisation be slowly erroded and made another grey Internet offering but what I guess are Yahoo's lawyers and Accountants.

I feel sorry for the old Flickr hands who worked so hard to make Flickr a special place on the Internet - it must be sad to see the anger around this and I'm sure a few must be thinking "would this have happened if Google bought Flickr and not Yahoo?" Personally I think not!!