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It's 4am and I've just finished resizing and uploading some photos that I took recently at various Manchester club nights. The photos are nothing special, but you can see some here and some more here.

I like meeting people and taking pictures at club nights so I've started using coxy.me.uk/photos as a hub for photos like this - maybe I'll do it more often.

I've also been linking a lot of photos that aren't mine on my blog lately. Should I hot-link the original image, which is what I'm doing right now, or save a copy of the image onto Opera Community and source the original?

Hot-linking allows the original photographer to have control over removing their images - this has positive and negative points. Re-hosting and sourcing will ensure the blog doesn't break in future - but then, it does infringe on Copyright. It would be interesting to hear comments on this from readers and moderators.

Since I don't live in America, I'm not to bothered about the daily ongoing of Barack Obama - America's presidents are just celebrities nowadays. But today, both Flickr and The Guardian inform me that Obama has been President for 100 days - both chose to 'celebrate' this occasion by presenting 'behind-the-scenes' photos of the man himself.

The Guardian seem to have sourced all their images from Getty Images, Corbis and The Associated Press (AP) - Flickr on the other-hand (or should that be upper-hand), have a photostream that's officially maintained by The White House and have made all their photos available in hi-resolution and under a creative commons license.

The photos on Flickr are impressive. Pete Souza - the photographer - has done a sterling job with the photo set 'Delivering on Change', and it's an interesting and eye-pleasing photostream.

In true British style (we love mediocrity here in the UK), Downing Street has a Flickr photostream too - but the photos are a bit shit and they're all copyright. Huzzah!

*sighs*

This is excellent. Victoria has reach 100 days of her 365 and this is her celebratory photo. You can super-size it.

I have to admit to telling her she'd only last a month. She has proved me wrong by hitting 100 days (or even by hitting 31 days), and I hope she continues to prove me wrong and reach the end of this 365 self portraiture.