Gemma celebrates web 2.Ooooh

So apparently when you’re in Flickr if you add a note to one of your photos with the comment ‘ho ho ho hat’ it creates a Santa hat to place on the head of the photo subject. ‘Ho ho ho beard’ works in a similiar way.  

I may be incredibly behind by only discovering this nifty easter egg (christmas cracker?) this morning, but much fun was had playing with my bit10 related photos. For example:

So Merry Christmas everyone, and for an extra diversion check out this year’s bit10 christmas card:  bit10 Shoot ‘em up

Coming back to work after a holiday is never easy, especially when whilst away you find yourself falling back into your body’s natural rhythm of rising at 10:30-11am, eating dinner at 2pm, tea at 10pm, and then not sleeping until the wee hours.

Booking a business over breakfast event for my second day back was perhaps slightly silly given the above. However, the topic, organised by the Chamber of Commerce on ensuring you maintain a work/life balance, was quite interesting and a good trade off for the missing Snooze Time.  

Plus, getting up early made me appreciate having dinner at midday where I got to play with my new toy: the Simpsonmaker.

I’ve always wanted to be in the Simpsons (and yes, I was feeling very generous to myself).

On a more work-related topic, I was quite intrigued to read Cathie’s post on Semacode and thought I’d have a play with the site.

Apparently this is bit10:

Update: A quick search through Flickr’s tags reveals a cluster devoted to pics of semacodes, along with a particularly interesting one of a semacode cut into a field, crop-circle style! 

A client (a marketing manager for an ecommerce website) emailed me recently to ask for any hints and tips regarding online trends that have appeared over the past year or so. Odd, given the nature of my internet activites (read: posting to livejournal and flickr) that I couldn’t actually think of many. In a typical example of a ‘can’t see the wood for trees’ scenario, it took A.Friend to point out the following: