Posted by Fox on June 16, 2007 at 2:06 PM

Spotted this interesting piece by Derrick Story over at O'Reilly regarding his use of his camera phone.

"Most of us have camera phones. A few of us use them. I have a practical application for your smartphone that’s bound to help you at least once: Use your camera phone to photograph your parking locations in a gigantic garages so you don’t lose your car."

"I started doing this a while back, and suddenly became enamored with some of the images stored on my phone. I started adding a little creativity to the recording of parking spaces, and then it dawned on me that this could be an interesting community endeavor. So I’ve started the Park by the Numbers Camera Phone Project."

This got me to thinking about my own obsession regarding camera phones and car parks. It started in 2004 after I'd just purchased a swanky new sports car. Whenever I parked it in a public car park I'd take photos of the cars next to it as I was walking away, just in case I returned to find a scratch on it.

Quite what I'd do if I found a scratch, I have no idea. I guess it just made me feel better knowing I'd know who had done it. Sort of.

My obession stopped when Michelle complained that I never took photo's of her whenever I left her someone public. You know, in case someone scratched her :)

So what quirky use do you have your camera phone? Use the comments link/form below to share it.