You can get your own RSS feed of your recently loved tracks on Last.fm via this Yahoo Pipes application by Amit. Awesome! I’ve wanted this for ages. I’ve put my feed at the bottom of my blog here, for now.

In other news, I did a new illustration of a cowgirl pinup:

Hot.

It needs more work. I’m going to simplify it. Also I don’t know if I said but I have been doing a few pictures of my boyfriend with Antlers and blood on his head. They’re on my flickr.

*** Update ***

Since I noticed this post is really popular and lots of people are coming here by searching for ‘cowgirl pinups‘, you can now buy a large poster of the above via  my CafePress store, here.  I’ll try and get around to putting it on more products but if there’s a specific one or size you’d like let me know and I’ll sort it as a priority.  Thanks!

Twitter is broken and as usual they have a very cute image to let you know.  I’ve decided to blog about all the cute error messages I come across, as I find them.  So far, as I recall, Twitter is winning on it’s ‘I’m broken’ notices.  Although, another site might have the potential to make really nice error messages, but just never break, so you never see them.  Is there a name for these pages?  Like ‘maintenance’ pages or something?

So I’m probably going to keep my blog at WordPress and just add some more pages to it because it doesn’t seem worth the complications of leaving a dead blog here and trying to get people to read at my new location etc.

Apart from that, I had reason to edit my Facebook relationship status recently and noticed something missing – the options are:

• Single
• In a relationship
• Engaged
• Married
• It’s complicated and
• In an open relationship.

So I have a couple of friends who are married AND in an open relationship. So they’re now forced to choose whether to represent themselves online as married OR as in an open relationship, whereas offline they are both. The couple I’m thinking of have decided to put ‘In an open relationship’ as it happens. But I wondered if this caused them any dilemma or if they had an issue with that.

Facebook probably thought they were being quite liberal by even offering the open relationship option, but maybe a blank text box would be better, so people could define their relationship however they chose to.

The only problem with that would be for the purposes of searching for people with a specific relationship setting, because there would be so much variety in the way people described their relationships. But why would anyone search for people based on their relationship setting? Apart from if they were trying to search for someone to date and wanted to search for ‘single’ people, but why would anyone ever want to do a search for married people for example? Or people in a relationship?

The other thing is – what about people in poly relationships? What if someone had a 3-way (or more) relationship and wanted to express that on their profile?

A post about work…

Last week I presented my design for the University of Sussex’s social networking community mashup site to pilot groups. We did it in the InQbate (creativity) centre, which has lots of projectors and space for running around in. It was much more fun than sending out a questionnaire and a link to a site.
Here’s a link to the project blog: http://splashproject.blogspot.com

And here’s the video of the event: