A friend invited me round for a celebration of all things Australian, beer (VB), snacks (TimTams) and movies (Crackerjack and Rabbit Proof Fence)
The beginning of the evening was cool, booze, sugar and random comedy, grand. Rabbit Proof Fence on the other hand was a horrible film, well… a great film, but a horrible era. How a “civilised” country can come to the conclusion that it’s best to breed out the “half-castes” of a race is beyond me…
Once I got home, I figured I’d take a quick picture before I scrubbed the flag off my face.
When you’re a stranger.
A friend at work asked me to take photo’s at her dad’s 65th birthday party, a rather random request, how could I refuse.
It was the first time I had covered an event like that (I was the photographer for my dad’s wedding, but that was different). I was quite worried that the pictures would be disappointing, or I wouldn’t be able to get enough, or that I’d forget my memory card, or my batteries would die, etc, etc, etc.
Luckily all went well and the pictures turned out good. It was fun interrupting random people having random conversations with a friendly “Hi, I’ve been asked to take pictures, mind if I quickly grab you guys?”
A blatantly stolen idea from Mock the Week this week.
I find the new adverts from the Tories terrifying! They might actually make people vote for them, horrible idea, we’d end up with service “co-operatives” and a slashing of public spending.
Needless to say, I won’t be ticking their box come May (and that’s not a euphemism)
I dragged my loved one out for a jog in the snow this morning, that’s romantic isn’t it?
I’m pretty sure she’ll forgive me though, you should have seen the card I got her!
Tesco – Extra Value Cards – Sentiment Guaranteed
A week where everything looked like it was going to get back to business as usual, and then the days that I was supposed to be going up to London and Reading, things crop up. First the snow has it’s last hurrah, and then sickness sets in… rubbish.
Finally gotten round to putting up some of the photo’s from my holiday to Rome in November. I’ve settled on only 12 pictures from the few days I was there, but I think they show pretty much most of the trip.
Rome 2009 set on Flickr
Day three of not being able to get to work. I feel guilty because I’m working from home yet again, I shouldn’t feel guilty, because I am actually working… most of the time. It’s just very easy to get distracted by things around the flat. I ended up getting my cordless drill out and attempting to fix my sofa at lunch! Here’s to hoping that the snow has cleared by Monday and I can actually make the commute.
I’ve picked up one of two photography related Christmas presents, this is the Magnum portfolio book, hence the resurgence of taking photos. It’s times like this that I’m sorry I gave up on my 365. Maybe I could just try a 52? One a week perhaps?
Had a snow day working from home today, so I popped out to play in the park at lunch. I’m pretty sure I was the only person wandering around in the snow with a tray of novelty ice cubes!
(and it’s a handy widescreen ratio for wallpapers!)
Just before heading out to Rome (pictures to come of that soon), the Brighton Walk of the Dead shambled it’s way down from Brighton station to the sea front. It was awesome to see so many people really pushing the boat out and making an effort.
Some truly terrifying outfits!
I’ve recently been looking at how I can use Google Analytics to track website usage of content based on the category it has been assigned. We are using META tags in the page headings to store the category name and title of the content.
Google have just rolled out a bunch of excessively handy features allowing custom variables in their most recent update to the analytics package, unfortunetly my Analytics account hasn’t yet been updated to include them. As a fall back I’ve used the Event Tracking functionality instead.
At the bottom of each page which I want to track the category of, added the following code;
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<script type="text/javascript">
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var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("<%= googleAnalyticsId %>");
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function getMeta(name) {
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var metas = document.getElementsByTagName(‘META’);
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for (var i = 0; i < metas.length; i++){
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if (metas[i].getAttribute(‘NAME’) == name){
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return metas[i].getAttribute(‘CONTENT’);
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}
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}
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return "null";
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}
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try {
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var cat = getMeta("CATEGORY");
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var title = getMeta("ARTICLE_NAME");
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if(cat != "null" && title != "null"){
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pageTracker._trackEvent(‘Category’,cat,title);
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}
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}catch(ex){
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/* do nothing */
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}
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pageTracker._trackPageview();
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</script>
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Using this codes means that I can put these meta tags into the headings of any page;
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<meta name="CATEGORY" content="Analytics" />
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<meta name="ARTICLE_NAME" content="Custom Variables" />
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And Google Analytics will track the my each of my articles based on the category they have been tagged with.
