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This picture from Flickr just got chosen as my desktop background by Webilder:

A picture of someone who looks like me on Flickr

I had to look two or three times to confirm that it wasn’t a picture of me. In the end it was the presence of the Mac that gave it away. It’s disturbing seeing yourself looking back out of your desktop.

Posted by sil at 4:56 pm on September 9th, 2007. 5 comments... »
Categories: Humour, Musings.

5 comments.

  1. > In the end it was the presence of the Mac that gave it away.

    For me, it was the several bottles of beer. ;-)

    Posted by Dean Edwards on September 9th, 2007.

  2. Har! The beer is definitely proof it’s not me; I’m too much of a wimp these days ;)

    Posted by sil on September 9th, 2007.

  3. [...] So there’s this blog post by a guy on Planet GNOME who runs a tool, Webilder, that automatically fetches pictures off Flickr as your desktop backgrounds, and that happened to make a picture of himself one. Intrigued about Webilder, I checked for a Mac equivalent, and lo and behold, there it is: DeskLickr. There’s apparently a similar Windows app (boringly titled “Flickr Wallpaper Rotator”) as well, but its website won’t cooperate with me. [...]

    Posted by soeren says » Blog Archive » DeskLickr on September 9th, 2007.

  4. Hmmm – looks like me too – and is proved not by the same evidence!

    Posted by Bill on September 10th, 2007.

  5. It looks like this photo was part of the response to this post on strobist a blog about photography with using fancy lighting techniques.

    http://strobist.blogspot.com/2007/08/laptops-at-twenty-paces.html

    Posted by Stephen Paulger on September 13th, 2007.

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