#6 More Flickr Fun

More Flickr Fun was a bit of a lie this week I think.
Link number 1 was to MappR. This might have been nice to use, I don't know though because the page doesn't work (I've been trying for 24 hours now).
Link number 2 was to Flickr Colr Pickr which loaded the page but not the Flash movie (possibly to do with our firewall).
Link number 3 was to Montagr. This loaded a single image in the top left hand corner of the screen and then did nothing else. My 'dog' mosaic was more a dog image (although there were 1032 pages of single images).

This is not fun.

ALTHOUGH...that being said, after about 40 minutes on the phone to the lovely Anthony in IT, he enabled Flash movies temporarily on my computer and I had access to Flickr Colr Pickr. It's COOL!!! (a bit odd in the colours it picks sometimes...but COOL nonetheless). I've seen colour search engines before but this is the prettiest by far (which may have something to do with me not looking at any of them since I was at uni).

And whilst I was on the phone I did this (I couldn't leave the phone and I'd finished all of my spine labelling and I didn't have anything else close...I was working... honest!)

#5 flickr

Teaching myself to play piano
Originally uploaded by tas666

This is my first post uploaded from my new flickr account. I am possibly going to have to edit it when it gets over to blogger.com. It took me AGES to do this because the stupid work firewall kept asking me to authenticate my details in the middle of uploading the picture and, after I'd authenticate, it would crash the browser.

Ah well, it's up now. I hope to never do this again from work, I think I'll just do it from home if I need to upload to here again.

What did I learn? That flickr is tied into Yahoo! so that Yahoo! can have more members who all have useless email accounts that mean nothing (or, if Yahoo! was my major email account provider then all of my services would be linked together with the one username...but I know that is not going to happen because blogger.com belongs to Google).

Oh, and the PictureAustralia site was interesting. I especially loved the picture of Sunshine Library's librarian in 1965. <-- this used to be a link but it died. Bah. Go to Picture Australia and type in 'Sunshine library 1965' as a search term.