Anne (bleugh) Robinson: What “h” precedes “be thy name” in the Lord’s Prayer?

Contestant: Howard.

Anne: Sorry?

Contestant: Howard.

Anne (smirking): Hallowed.

Poor Marco.

But ever generous, I had to share the pain joy, go play Valentine Crush yourselves. [Via MetaFilter Projects.]

The survey is being run by My Voice for Channel 4 Radio. The hyperlink in the publicity email that led me there does contain a long string of letters and digits, but since that was three lines long and no longer worked as a hyperlink, I used the alternative link. Maybe the identifier is in the unclickable link. Time to go cook supper then.

Right Next to the ‘Irony’ Button

Customer, trying to use his debit card: I gotta push “English”? “Spanish” shouldn’t be an option. If they can’t speak no English, they ain’t got no business being here. Where’s the “yes” button at?

Cashier: It’s the button that says “yes” on it.

Thought-provoking: The rape of Mr Smith.

Droolable 110 dogs, a collection of beautiful black and white photos of dogs.

Useful: Multi Column Category List Plugin for WordPress by Dagon.

Creative fun: The Amy Sedaris craft challenge on Flickr - make food come alive with googly eyes!

T-shirt fun Must find or make a copy of Veerle’s t-shirt for my niece’s birthday.

Unexplained mysteries: Police in a Wiltshire village have been trying to get to the bottom of an underwear mystery. Only on the BBC.

Rugby woes: Wales lose to Ireland. Dammit.

Much loved music: Paul Weller sings English Rose and in a duet with Amy Winehouse singing I Heard It Through the Grapevine. Ms Winehouse is doing strange things with her frock. Best to set it to play then go off and just listen.

That’s it, I’m off to snuggle up in a nice warm bed. Night, night.

They also answer that age-old question “who’d win a fight between a middle-aged ex-athlete with a few months of kendo training and a ninja who’s just lost an arm and leg”?

I’ve been sat here in front of the screen, finding it hard to deal with the bitter taste of rejection. Bowled over and grateful to the Stock Xchng community for sharing an unending supply of wonderful photos for banners, designs, cd covers, I suddenly got the idea to contribute a few photos. Not that they’re particularly good but might have been useful to someone writing about baking cakes or puddings. Or eggs.

So last night I logged in and uploaded the high res versions of a bowl of eggs and the ingredients for a cake. An hour later I forced myself to stop hitting refresh and close the window.

Bright and early this morning I logged on again, clicked through the recently added photos looking for my masterpieces photos, only to be disappointed once more. “Maybe they’ve got a backlog” I told myself. “Maybe you ought to get a life” an evil little voice on my should replied.

By this evening dejection had settled in. But it suddenly occurred to me to check the forum, maybe this “huge backlog” was being discussed there.

“It can take from 1-12 hours for pictures to be approved.” Oh woe is me! They’ve rejected my photos! Sobbing quietly I set about making supper, kicking the bin petulantly as I passed.

One bowl of yummy leek and potato soup later and I ambled back to the computer. Then it hit me, I wonder if I’ve broken any rules? Maybe the file size was too large? Badly cropped? Too much noise? I had been laughing rather loudly to this week’s Just a Minute while uploading the files.

I headed over to the Upload Rules section.

Remove copyrighted content

SXC does not allow photos that contain logos and trademarks (apart from a few images where it can’t be avoided). Before uploading please edit these out from your photos.

Oh dear. Every packet bears a brand name. Even the eggs are stamped. So they’ve not been rejected for poor quality, it’s all those trademarks and logos. Innit?

It’s so bloody cold! Gone are the days I’d be whizzing around the park in a t-shirt in January, now I need 6 layers of thermals just to get out of the front door. Brrrrr.

[Photo of Jake by Leslie Collingridge at Stock Xchng.]

Anyway, I’ve not posted anything to Zooomr for a while and must confess I was thinking about moving them over to Flickr but I’ve just discovered that Zoomr shows referrals for each picture - I now know that this picture is the 4th result at Google for puddle chucker and has been viewed 91 times. Beams with pride.

On the other hand… Zooomr login is via the godawful OpenID thingumyjig which defeats my feeble brain.

Decisions, decisions…

[Later that same day… this post has been edited to change Zoomr to Zooomr (3 ‘o’s rather than 2).]