May 30 2007
Freaked Out
I put one of those flickr spinner widgets on my blog the other week and it all worked fine.
But then I popped onto my blog yesterday only to find lots of classroom displays in my spinning cube. This is very odd as I’ve never taken a picture of a classroom display and certainly haven’t uploaded any to flickr. When I clicked on on the spinner it took me to a flickr page called stoneyhillteacher. Stoneyhill is the Primary School in Musselburgh where my wife works, and one of the pictures on the flickr page is from her room!!
She had no knowledge of this - one of the other members of staff has been taking pictures of displays around the school. But how has a picture of a display in my wife’s classroom accidently found itself onto my blog!?!?
I gave up with FlickrWidget because it never put up any of my photos - only ever got someone else’s. Very nice pictures, but I wanted MINE!
Hi Fearghal.
I think it is something to do with the multi-user wordpress. David will beable to explain. See you tomorrow night!
Tess:)
I think it’s time I pulled the plug on that one, so have done so now. To save repeatedly retrieving files from Flickr, it saves them in a cache directory. Because it’s been originally designed for a single-user WordPress environment, it doesn’t keep track of the ownership of files in that cache. It then cheerfully creates a spinner which displays those images, putting more than the images in a spin….
It was me! It freaked me out too when I found all your holiday photos on my website!!! Hope you are all well.