So I discovered the other day -- when a mate at work pointed it out -- that there are a bunch more sites called Side Street Gallery. With various alternate hyphenizations of the URL. I can't believe I didn't bother to look for other sites with the same name when I registered the domain; what was I thinking?

Anyhow, Side Street Gallery is now ashtonmason.com (note the .com). With rather less focus on selling other people's prints, obviously.

After having a Flickr account for ages, mainly to be able to comment on other people's pictures, I've only gone and uploaded two of my own.

I'd like to ascribe this new-found charitability to Christmas cheer and hearty good will, but actually it's mainly a sly attempt to promote my Side Street Gallery project.

Take a peek. Go on, get. Shoo.

I've made some basic improvements to my Level of Detail subsite.

Oh yes, you might also be interested to know that I developed light-up.co.uk, a commercial website that sells a plugin for Google SketchUp called LightUp, for a friend.

Light-up.co.uk has the distinction of being by far the busiest website I've ever made or hosted, serving about 150,000 pages a month. That's down entirely to the desirability of the product it sells, but the site can at least be said to be coping with the demand without falling over (yet).

Well this place has been a hive of activity since day one, hasn't it?

Today though, I'm pleased to have something to say. Check out side-street-gallery.com, my latest project.