For now, here are some photos that used to appear on my temporary, experimental, wordpress.com site.  At some point, I think that will become my permanent blogging home, because although this place is nice and flexible, I think I’ve exhausted what I want to do with it by way of fiddling and tinkering.  The wordpress.com freebie is fine, and it handles sl postcards better anyway.  I’ll find some way to package up everything that’s on this site into perhaps one file, or one file per posting (ideas for that, anyone?), then move the domain name over at some point too.

Great photo, by Peter Stindberg.

Enmeshed

There’s no better way to describe the two of us.  Enmeshed, in each other.

The alternative I’ve used to get around this problem is ‘Posterous‘. It makes sending postcards from the sl client to a WordPress blog much easier, but it’s not without its own issues.  For one thing, it forwards a link to any images in the posting, rather than the image itself – which is ok, unless you ever edit or delete the Posterous blog.  The second thing which annoys me is that every sl postcard comes with a section beneath the main image, which contains a slurl and the sl logo – and it’s a nuisance to have to manually edit these out if you don’t want the boring repetition.

Now, I’ve discovered that if you end the text portion of the postcard with ‘#end ‘ (ignoring my quote marks), Posterous conveniently dumps everything that follow – which means the slurl and the logo aren’t passed on to the blog.

Sometimes it’s useful to include the location, other times it’s not, but it’s good to have the option.

All I need now is to find a way to copy the image itself over, rather than just the link.

At this time of year, people ask me why I bother with Christmas if I don’t believe in god.  They forget, of course, that belief in a god does not require belief in Christmas (other religions get along quite well without Christmas, it seems).  Then a while ago I came across this thought (I can’t remember where), which serves me quite well as a reply:

If you understand why you reject all those other gods, then you understand why I reject yours

The need for reassurance at this time of the year – when the days get shorter, and the weather gets colder – is age old.  If it helps to believe that it needs a god to keep pushing our planet around the Sun until Spring arrives, that’s ok.  Just don’t expect me to believe it too.  (From a very young age, I could never get a good answer to this question: “Why does Australia have its Wnter celebration in their Summer ?”)

Anyway, I thought I’d also throw in a link to the Humanist Society, and Richard Dawkins ‘OUT’ campaign, for good measure.

It’s my little effort to stem the tide, belatedly, that overwhelms the world at this time of year, in one flavour or another.

Happy Solstice!

Triton Flatley, Photographer

and his work…

Me, by Triton Flatley