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Timmy's post of the stats for visits to e's new story prompted me to look at the stats for my personal website, something I haven't done for a year or so. I was surprised to see an unexpected spike in December ... it turns out that a picture from my blog was used on a thread on an on-line forum (and is being served from my blog, rather than being a copy of the pic).
Actually, I'm immensely flattered ... it's one of five images going with the text "when the human race becomes a multi-planet civilisation and the time comes to choose one object to symbolise earth > "My bet is, they'll choose something like this:" (http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/12/6/105656/897 - halfway down the thread)
The same image is also served to another site: http://leafclan-3clans.webs.com/traininggrounds.htm , which is fair enough.
I don't - AFAIK - know either of these people, so I assume they just picked the image up from a web search or something. I'm sure we've all done something similar ... it just comes as a bit of a surprise to me.
That's just the ones that are served from my site - no way of knowing how many times the image has been used by just copying it, of course. It does just go to show that once you let something loose on the web, there's no telling where it'll end up!
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"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Where is it, NW? It could be on Hampstead Heath or Bristol Downs.
Or almost anywhere in our green and pleasant land, I guess.
Love,
Anthony
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As you say, it could easily be Hampstead Heath or Clifton Downs, or any number of places. I'm sure that's why this image - of the many scattered around my blog - has been re-used.
As it happens, it's Common land, one of a scattering of such places in my home area that didn't get swallowed up when the Blenheim Estate was created for the first Churchill, and escaped the nineteenth-century Enclosure Acts. On the very edge of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, it's where I grew up. If you've got Google Earth, it's at 51°49'19.78"N 1°25'9.04"W
As a 7/8/9/10 year old, I thought it was paradise! In many ways, I still do ... though after 30+ years of living in London I know that (for me) it's somewhere to visit, not somewhere to live.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Thanks, NW, I do have google earth and it showed the area to me. I know the overall district quite well. I lived in Oxford for five years (3 at the university) and had a cousin who lived in Islip.
I've explored the Thames quite well - I've been on a boat of one kind or another on nearly all of it. It is beautiful. I think of all the places I've ever been I'd like to live on the banks of the Thames or Cherwell north or west of Oxford.
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