Guardian of the Non Sequitur

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Map Schmap?

All of my Flickr photos are marked with a creative commons license. It’s an attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives license, which I would suspect is a fairly common one. This doesn’t prevent allowing other uses, of course.

So, recently I got a random email from Schmap.com. What dot who? They would like to use my photo for their guides and just wanted to make sure it was okay. Of course they didn’t say, “we’re a commercial site, and we want commercial permission from you”, they just said “we’re a free site, and here’s the link to our agreement”, please click yes.

I finally decided to go ahead with it and see what becomes of it. Seems right now they have a pathetic guide to houston and need all the help they can get. They also have a downloadable, Windows-only, Mac-RSN guide but what good is that to me?

Hopefully they improve their guide to Houston. Or, more likely, they’ll crash and burn.

July 25th, 2007 Posted by bshirley | houston, web | no comments

Different Groups of Friends

Bob Sarah Manuel @ Bob’s 40thQuite a few interesting groups of people this weekend. First Bob’s 40th in Austin. I got to see Manuel, it’s been a while, and got to meet his wife Sarah. Some fun hanging out at Lake Travis and in Austin.

Monday night I went to Niece #2’s birthday party. A mostly parent-free zone with fifteen nine (or so) year olds. A pool. Karaoke. I think I lost some high-frequency hearing.

Tuesday I had lunch with some other high school friends: Diane, Wendy, Suzanne, and Allen (who was two years younger and I don’t think I’ve seen in forever!)

Then Tuesday night I stopped by Privé because Tracey was trying to bartend – many other friends-of-Tracey were there as well.

July 25th, 2007 Posted by bshirley | friends, weekend | no comments