<Flickr

Flickr.com is the site I use to host all of my photos. You can upload anything you want on there, (although if it’s a woman’s boobies they’ll ask people whether they’re sure they want to be looking at that kind of thing) and if you’re a camera geek you can waste hours looking at snaps taken using virtually any camera ever made, or images from every far-flung corner of the globe, from Armthorpe to Zanzibar.

Because photographers are cool, well-rounded, sociable people (cough) it’s also a good way to meet people. Without flickr I wouldn’t have met Craig, Peter (and therefore Emma), or a whole load of sound people that I see from time to time in the big city. In fact without it I have no idea who I would be hanging out with, possibly child rapists and Opium smugglers who drive whilst using their mobile phone. In that respect it’s a bit like myspace or facebook except not a pointless waste of time, and I’d go so far as to put it up there with my other favourite sites of all time- http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/, http://ratemypoo.com and http://hairlossspecialists.com.

Anyway, the Chinese government have blocked flickr (because there were some photos on there of some angry students or something), ruining my life with one fell swoop. The withdrawal symptoms have gotten so bad that I’ve resorted to going up to people on the subway to ask if I can have a look at the images on their phone, and going through the bins at the back of Kwik-E-Snap.

Living under the iron boot of the People’s Government is starting to take it’s toll- but on the other hand I had a smashing bowl of fried noodles last night for 6.5RMB (45p), so what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.