Tag Archive for 'online'

flickr-ing woes

Achievement: posted my 200th photograph on flickr (well, not really an “achievement” given that I joined in 2005!) BUT

The Catch: Free account apparently only lets you show off the last 200 photographs uploaded AND it suggests I should upgrade!
flickr

So: I’m gonna weigh the costs vs benefits of spending a couple of dollars a month on the Pro-Account for a while (like an economist should) - meanwhile, I also show-off my pictures elsewhere anyway!

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busy, away, invisible… are you really?

Why are you always “online” and “away”? The question I usually had to answer (not much nowadays) if I replied to a ping on IM while on “away” status. We all probably do it. Show our IM status as not available (away, busy, or even invisible) when we want to pick and choose who we would like to chat with and who we would like to avoid/ignore.

“Busy” status is a strange thing (and I don’t keep my status as “busy” anymore). You’re more likely to get into trouble when you’re in a “busy” status than when you’re “away”. I have heard the same accusation again and again, about being snobbish when I used to ignore messages being in a “busy” status. That didn’t really work except to annoy many of my friends.In a way it is understandable as you are really telling them to bugger off.
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poudyal.org facelift…

Here’s a screengrab of the new homepage for poudyal.org/.com. Decided to remove text altogether - with clickable regions on the image itself. The image below is from my flickr, you can CLICK HERE for my homepage.

poudyal.org


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staff to sell…how inhuman!!

As seen on my university’s small-ads service:

staff to sale

:)

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