Flickr Theft

Well, not mine. But a member of the Staffordshire Bull Terrier group seems to have come across an Ebayer who appears to take from Flickr and then sells cards.

Best of all this ebayer claims in replies to flickrmail (posted by the recipient) that buyers aren’t bothered that the images are stolen. When reminded that it is copyright theft the ebayer replies…….

“lol a thief indeed and I didnt need to where a mask the irony is we are a couple one being a police sergeant and an SO in the prison service lol !! Anyway the items are now removed and I assure you this causes no problems to me at all yet seemingly has caused you far more stress!! Judging from the length of your reply that is!!
I hope you find to find prosperity in these images 🙂 ”

Link the Flickr site here -> Discussions

Auction
(Drag the image to the address bar for a full size view)

The superb original image.

One positive I’ve discovered about this is the ability on Flickr to SpaceBall (it layers over a blank gif image to prevent dragging to the address bar and downloading) your images, though plug ins are available to circumvent this (as usual!)

Aircraft

Despite them(aircraft) being polluting dirt sods I love em, so the weekend walk with wife, friend and children was great for a few reasons.

  • We got out the house!
  • We went for a nice walk as a family
  • WE WENT TO LOOK AT AIRPLANES@!@!!!!!@!@!@!

Obviously I took all my camera equipment, including my fisheye as I wanted to get a few shots for stock………

Monarch AirBus

Played little with fill-light, but nice I think. To be honest didn’t really get too many shots as I was busy with Rachel et al.

edit/ Comments options removed from this page.  Should help to keep the spam at bay.

Come to Brum

Tis a lovely place, I like it.  But some of our citizens are probably a little careless with regards to litter.

Carling Black Label

Although left by chavs, the symmetry is something to behold.

Touching wood

Ooooo-er missus. Well I know at 1 person is vaguely interested. Anyway it (the server)seems to be all working now. MySQL seems to want to start and the missing content is now not missing.

So a big thank you to my temporary server………….

Macbook

And a welcome return to my server……

Mac Mini

One day I’ll write down the fix,  still it makes a little more interesting this way.

So, it starts.

The long awaited server update has begun. This blog is currently served on my temporary server. Hopefully no one will notice any difference.

The server rebuild shouldn’t take too long. Probably the worst bit is the Data Copy.

Backup reports an hour or so to complete. We’ll see. It does lie about time.

/edit:  Backup time was bollocks.  I’ve had to do a few restarts on the backup in the meantime.  It’s now claiming 36 minutes.  ho-hum.  This kinda knackers my attempt to rebuild tonight.  So will probably reinstate the server tonight, which means this message will not be seen!!

Though I could just get pissed with and wipe away anyway.