
Now that's fun! You could waste....I mean productively use a whole heap of time on these image generators; not that I would of course......
Having a penchant for Japanese prints I tried a few tags on Delicious and found lots of lovely stuff (including this actor portrait of Nakamura Utayemon as Yodogimi by Natori Shunsen).....has this "lady" been drinking, or what? Technorati is also good fun, and provides a structure for wading through the sea of blogs out there in virtual-land.
This is a photo of a dear friend of mine, Gorgo, taken on his recent holiday in London......he just loves stomping around those olde worlde tourist venues! Some people say we look alike, but I just don't see it......
Well I've had a good look at a few wikis now and thought I'd look myself up on Wikipedia, and what do I find? A most unflattering photo that makes my hips look much larger than they actually are! To whom do I complain?I must say I'm a tad underwhelmed by wikis generally, my tiny dinosaur mind finds it hard to put too much trust in something that would accept a contribution from the likes of me (shades of Groucho Marx, "I don't care to belong to a club that has people like me as members")

Goddies iPod playlist in the previous post was an attempt to see how easy it might be to post images with exceedingly urbane text (okay, okay), and it is indeed remarkably straightforward. This could be a great way for different collections and services to advertise recent acquisitions, events, the dreaded "staff favourites" and other novel matters. And perhaps in a slightly more conversational, less formal manner than normal .
But hopefully not leading to this.......

I was recently devastating a small coastal community and popped my head into the local library where I picked up this marvellous recording. Needless to say I'd left my library card at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, but the librarian kindly let me take it anyway; I left the building standing to show my appreciation.
My good friend Mecha Godzilla gave me this wonderful recording of Rameau's opera for my recent birthday......totally wild! Makes me want to go off and stomp all over Paris!
As you can see I've managed to load some pics into this post, after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing with help pages, Picasa, etc. Not all that clear, but trial and error and a few well chosen expletives saved the day. Now if anyone mentions copyright I'll fry them to a cinder......