• Debs has decided to spend the holiday being a Good Wife … http://post.ly/FmWv #
• Phase 1 present wrapping complete. Slightly drunk. Going to bed now. Goodnight. #
• Phase 2 present wrapping complete, hooray. Not even slightly drunk, boo. Goodnight. #
• Santa has finally been. http://post.ly/G8XL #
• Merry Christmas, people. #
• The annual ritual of 'Playmobil building' continues #

• Bloody Hell, I think we've just finished. #
• Tree http://post.ly/F5Oh #
• Christmas PC http://post.ly/FC3I #
• Today I've worked lates, hit Sainsbury's, made tomorrow's lunches, done the ironing & built Marf's Christmas PC. Now opening the wine … #
• Christmas beckons … http://post.ly/FOXC #
• Bloody Hell … http://post.ly/Fab2 #
• 2.4 kg of goodness http://post.ly/FaiX #
• Just discovered no. 1 daughter has a Youtube habit http://bit.ly/8paSs1 #

So, to recap. I don’t like the way Twitpic or Yfrog handle tweeted photos or ads, but I do like the ability to post a picture direct to Twitter. I store ‘real’ photos at Smugmug without any ads or registration for visitors. The best solution for me would be to post directly to a Smugmug album (via the Tweetie app) and have the URL tweeted automatically. For some technical reason Tweetie & Smugshot don’t get on, so I compromised with a Posterous account just for photo posts (it was too easy not to) which meant I had to email posts (or in this case photos) to to the site but for the occasional picture I can live with that. I also used Twitterfeed for a while until I discovered Posterous’ ability to autopost to Twitter.

Now I find there’s an iPhone app ‘PicPosterous‘ – again, sorry about the name, there’s nothing I can do about it – which posts directly from the iPhone camera without the need for emailing anything and it creates albums of events if I so choose so I’m one step closer to where I want to be. I might even be there, I haven’t decided yet.

I love it when a plan comes together.

• Extreme shopping with Dave http://post.ly/EHzv #
• Waterstones now has a section called 'Paranormal Romance'. Did that used to be 'Young Fiction'? I despair. #
• In one year and one day I will be fifty years old. Should I be depressed? #
• VU on R4. Lovely. #
• I've just bought a new iron, I'm very happy. And very, very sad. #
• Fetched my own parcel and did DHL's job for them. Bastards. #
• The annual Christmas clean is upon us #
• Oh God, this is becoming tedious. #

Sorry about the quality, I was dodging Westfield Derby security guards.

How many people does this stuff pass through before it’s printed?

• Sorting Christmas music for the kids now that December looms. #
• In my day that meant breaking out the Perry Como & Nat King Cole albums, nowadays it's copying mp3s & synching iPods. #
• Just seen a woman in Tesco with her curlers in. Each to their own, I say. #
• Dave makes gingerbread men (and women) for the Christmas Fayre http://post.ly/E4KQ #
• Went to buy Christmas PC from PC World – £319.99 on Wednesday, now £419.99. That rate of inflation would make eyes water in Zimbabwe. #
• 140 characters too much for Twatter. Succinct is good. #
• First beer of the 2009 Christmas do. http://post.ly/E8pl #
• Keeper of the Gingerbread House http://post.ly/ECxj #