My Great World - new network site for photographers

This site is easy to use and uses a scoring system to encourage users to upload their photos. The strength of this site is its ease of use and is a dedicated photo networking site with a geographical dimension.
The site is in beta and is quite new, my first photo was placed in southern Philippines and I was the first in this part of the world! Here it is.

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http://www.mygreatworld.com/

Travel IQ

The Web's Original Travel Blog.

This is a great bit of fun and will improve your knowlege of the world.

Money seems to be going mad in the UK or am I just getting older?
I was walking to the railway station through the car park as usual only to see the latest price for parking your car. It had gone up from Around £3 to an amazing £5 a day! - that is getting close to the cost of a taxi ride both ways! The carpark was still full of expensive cars like normal. These people are now paying £100 a month to drive from their massively overpriced homes to the railway station. Added to the price of the expensive peak time rail tickets most are paying £400 a month to get to work.
Why does this seem so overpriced - well a new car at £7500 on a loan would be about the same price and the parking ticket!
Clearly most people in Weybridge have no money worries, with very high wages.

The town has been part of the commuteing ring around London since the Railway opened over 100 years ago. It is just inside the famous orbital motorway the M25 which has become the new unofficial London boundry. The economy inside the M25 is massive, the GDP is greater that the super state of California!
With this is mind maybe the £5 is a good price - it is to stop us plebs from parking, we are expected to walk!
The UK still does not have one bank producing the money as you can clearly see in this photo. Northern Ireland, Scotland Gernsey and Jersey still have there own money with the pound note still in use in places. The Isle of Man has sterling also but technically is not part of the UK.
The euro will one day bring a money union to the whole of the British Isles - with Ireland already using them.

The Polish word for Vodka is Wodka and the oldest known use of the word was in 1405 in Poland not Russia. It is claimed therefore Vodka was born in Poland!
Poland has always been a major producer of Vodka and now is the forth largest market in the world.

Networking

The shelfari network is for book readers. http://www.shelfari.com/
What I really like about the site is the ability to display the books you have read on a virtual library. When you have completed a book you can update your shelf for all to see.
I am a poor reader and have read only a few books, other keener readers are able to discuss / group / comment on their favourite books.
The book 'Two Caravans' is what I am currently reading. It is supposed to be better than her great book 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian' - so far I am not convinced.