It's quiet in the office now. Hadj has kicked in, the boss is away, so what's a guy to do? I've compiled an Amazon 'Wish List' for my Mum, browsed around for a while looking at studio flash kits, ordered a Sto-Fen for the 430ex, picked up a tall latte from Seattle's Best. So what to do with the rest of the day?

Seems something has happened at Pownce. It'll be shut down on 15th December, after which we wait to see what comes next from Six Apart who've bought them out. Some of the Pownce staff have moved across to SA and others are now acting as consultants, including Kevin Rose, he of Digg fame and fortune.

In other news, I'm now officially a Moderator across at The Photo Forum. I'd been acting as a 'Spam Cop' for a while and at last count count claim somewhere in the region of 500 spammers banned and any number of posts consigned to the 'Trash Can'. The new role is interesting, I now have to get rather more visibly involved in the day to day running of the site. Rather more discussions on stuff behind the scenes than one might imagine, but no where near as salacious as some seem to conjure up. It's amazing at times how a simple change can be blown up into all sorts of wild fantasies.

Should you find the time and the inclination, it's worth getting across to TPF for the 'Fight Club' on a Sunday 14:00 EST (22:00 KSA time). It's a very simple, but fun idea - take 5 photographs on 5 different themes assigned by the host, process and publish them all within 1 hour. Following this, votes are cast by your peers. I blush to mention that it has run for 3 weeks so far and I've won all 3 (must get the smileys working in here, esp the one to represent mild embarrassment).

Well time to the off, more later maybe. Oh, and we're away at Newcastle today. We should be good for a point I'd like to think.