Feb 09
Another year on the planet, another cake but there’s a twist this year.
In previous years, She Who Must Be Obeyed has been the architect and builder of many a fine birthday cake for each member of the family. However, this year, my birthday cake was created and decorated by my eight year old daughter. The photo above shows the end result; the iCake™ is a fine representation of an Apple iBook – with innovative iDigestive™ mouse – detailed right down to the digital clock in the upper right corner and the Apple space image screen saver.
I love my family and am thankful everyday for the blessings and joy I know through them
Tagged with: apple • cake • Flickr • iBook • iDigestive™ • mouse
Jan 25
Caitlin Campbell (NZ)
After three days of convincing football, New Zealand’s Junior Football Ferns have secured Oceania’s sole qualification spot for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Germany in 2010. Postponed in October 2009 as a sign of respect for the loss of life in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga, the tournament was a showcase of the Oceania talent we can expect to see playing in the next few years at the FIFA Women’s World Cup and the Olympic Football Tournament. Click either photo for more shots from the weekend’s games.
Hannah Wilkinson (NZ) takes on Jennifer Akavi (Tonga)
Tagged with: 2010 • Cup • ferns • FIFA • football • Germany • junior • north harbour stadium • U-20 • Women's • World
Jan 07
Although the ‘What’s in my bag?’ meme is well past it’s first flush of youth, I do find it mildly diverting to look at what folks carry around. The photos that people add to the ‘What’s in my bag?‘ and ‘Every Day Carry‘ Flickr groups give a small window on the global community’s changing habits; the common themes, the emerging and receding social trends and the plain strange. For what it is worth, the changes in my workaday needs, modes of transport and personal productivity habits can be traced from November 2004, through my off-duty bag in March 2005 and in August 2005 during my last work weeks in the UK before emigrating.
Technorati Tags: Crumpler, Flickr, geek, productivity, whats in my bag
Dec 19
If you haven’t seen it already, digholes.com is a great ‘one use only’ web site that uses the Google Earth API to answer an age old question:
If you were to dig a hole from where you are standing all the way through the center of the Earth, where would you end up?
Like folks do, I located my small rural township in New Zealand, Huapai and clicked through to find out where I’d end up. The answer is that, after an awful lot of digging I’d pop out in a small rural township in Spain called Benamahoma.
This set me thinking about how digholes.com could be used for virtual town-twinning or sister city linking as I believe it’s known in North America. Given that 70% of the earth’s surface is water, this idea won’t work for everyone unless they’re strong swimmers or strike it lucky and pop up next to a supertanker.
Technorati Tags: digholes.com, google earth, town twinning
Dec 07
Airtight Interactive have come up with a nice spin on browsing Flikr. Enter a search term and it their Flickr Related Tag Browser will return a Zeitgeist-like compilation of images to the centre of your screen that are tagged with that term. These will be surrounded by related links which, according to AI, are “…a list of ‘related’ tags, based on clustered usage analysis.” All this allows the viewer to go on a remote ‘stream of consciousness’ type wander through Flickr, with the option to click-through to the site if an image takes your fancy.
