That’ll teach me to be less than specific when asking for a birthday present. Having said that, SWMBO’s brilliant cake was a great consolation prize, as was the slap up dinner we had with our new friends at the restaurant at the end of our road.
Archive for the ‘Images’ Category
You can’t have your kayak and eat it
Sunday, February 11th, 2007What’s in my bag these days
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
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
Baby, this is so money!
Saturday, January 6th, 2007For anyone who has seen ‘Swingers’ and ‘Sling Blade’, the YouTube video, ‘Swing Blade’ will be so money. Those that haven’t will just scratch their heads. It’s a one-joke deal but me? I spluttered tea and toast hooting over this breakfast-time find.
Technorati Tags: YouTube, Swingers, Switch Blade
Boxing Day Biking
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
After the excesses of Christmas Day, of which there were several, who can resist the lure of the open road under a bright blue sky to blow away the cobwebs? The sound of the cicadas, the smell of the pines and eucalypts and feel of the warm air wafting by brought smiles to the face of No.3 and I as we pedaled around the valley, exploring roads and tracks we’d never been down before.
Out by the old trotting track, we crossed the main freight line. I paused on the crossing to ponder how different my daily commute might be if passenger services still came this far rather than terminate two stations south. There’s a glimmer of hope with track upgrading currently taking place and rumours of extending services further north in the future.
Not just for Kinks fans
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006Dave of funkypancake.com has posted a wonderfully evocative photo of a Waterloo sunset. Make sure you click through to the full-size picture as the details make the picture. Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster appear like a backdrop from an old Ealing comedy, while the Millennium Wheel and the footbridge are more reminiscent of futuristic dystopian landscapes of Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner.
Technorati Tags: funkypancake, waterloo,
Town twinning on the internet
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
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
Christmas in summertime…
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
…will take some getting used to.
A BREED LEGS THEN HOOT (3,4,5,6)
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Geo. Washington saluting the bravery of Sean Bonner
An American acquaintance of mine, Sean Bonner, appears to be taking a great deal for taking a brave stand. Sean, a media commentator and art wrangler of no small regard, has been trying to bring the long-raging ‘The Long Horse Debate‘ and subsequent concerns around equine provenance to the attention of the wider public. Castigated by some, dismissed by others, there can be no doubt as to the robust nature of his constitution and the strength of his conviction. I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Surf those Flickr Tags
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
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.
Taped
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006