date: '2006-06-12 05:21:00' layout: post slug: photo-illustrated-tree-of-life-flickrtol-mash-up status: publish ref: http://eamonn.org/ title: Photo-Illustrated Tree of Life (Flickr/TOL Mash-Up) wordpress_id: '99' categories: Science
I have created a depiction of the evolutionary tree of life on Earth that is a simple mash-up of Flickr and the Tree of Life web project. It displays photos that have been taxonomically tagged.
date: '2006-05-11 20:05:00' layout: post slug: blood-sacrifice-the-left-and-the-1916-insurrection-in-ireland-ireland-britain-history status: publish ref: http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=2937 title: Blood sacrifice, the left and the 1916 insurrection in Ireland – Ireland / Britain History wordpress_id: '97' categories: Ireland
This anarchist analysis of the 1916 rising and the Irish War of Independence has some interesting points of view that I had not heard before. The author claims for example that the reason that the British agreed to come to terms with Sinn Fein is that they were terrified of much more radical left-wing movements in Ireland and Britain.
Filed in: ireland 1916 [](http://www.flickr.com/photos/eob/tags/)
date: '2006-05-10 18:47:00' layout: post slug: google-trends-irish status: publish ref: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=irish&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img title: 'Google Trends: irish' wordpress_id: '96' categories: Ireland
This is the Google Trends graph for the search term “irish”. Note the big peak every year on St. Patrick's day.
Update 2019-09-14: The above images do not render anymore. So here is the latest:
date: '2006-05-08 16:27:00' layout: post slug: in-memory-of-david status: publish ref: http://www.acsevents.org/relay/ca/campbell/eobrain?faf=1&e=597762986 title: In Memory of David wordpress_id: '95' categories: Personal
In memory of a friend, David, who died of cancer last year at a tragic young age I am helping to raise money for the Cancer Society. If you can, please donate.
date: '2006-04-23 17:03:33' layout: post slug: san-francisco-airport status: publish ref: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eob/134796112/ title: San Francisco Airport wordpressid: '94' categories: SF image: http://static.flickr.com/48/1347961121251768b07_m.jpg image-text: Flickr image
San Francisco Airport
Originally uploaded by Tolka Rover.
On Sunday evening I arrived at SFO with plenty of time to spare. Unfortunately our plane to London sprung a pressurization leak and we had to wait in the airport for two hours while they brought us a new plane from Denver.
This is what I worked on last year.
“We describe a software architecture that combines storytelling and cinematographic techniques to guide consumers in creating compelling video shows from their photographs. The software implementation of this architecture could run in cameras, consumer appliances, PCs, or web services.”
date: '2005-12-16 12:09:00' layout: post slug: visited-states status: publish ref: http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedStates/statemap?visited=ALAZCACOCTDCDEFLGAILIALAMDMAMSNENVNHNJNMNYNCORPARISCTNTXUTVTVAWAWVWI title: Visited States wordpress_id: '89' categories: Travel image: https://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=t&chtm=usa&chs=440x220&chf=bg,s,336699&chco=d0d0d0,cc0000&chd=s:99999999999999999999999999999999999999&chld=WIWVWAVAVTUTTXTNSCRIPAORNCNYNMNJNHNVMAMDMELAINILHIGAFLDECTCOCAAZAKALMSMONEIA image-text: Visited states
Thanks to Visited States and Visited Countries for these maps of all the U.S. States and countries I have visited.
I still have a lot of the world to see!
Update 2019-09-14: The original images above no longer worked, so I re-created them with my current visited status.
date: '2005-12-04 20:19:00' layout: post slug: war-the-price-of-freedom status: publish ref: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eob/70343174/ title: War, “The Price of Freedom”? wordpressid: '87' categories: Travel image: http://static.flickr.com/34/7034317487d839c557_m.jpg image-text: Flickr image
War, “The Price of Freedom”?
Originally uploaded by Tolka Rover.
The slogan for the “Americans at War” exhibition at the National Museum of American History is a bit simplistic. The wars covered in the exhibit included ones that were not really about freedom: the Spanish American war which was mostly about extending American colonialism, the Mexican war which was about westward expansion, and the Indian wars which were at best ethnic cleansing, and at worst genocide. As for the Vietnam War and the current Iraq war, let's say that opinions differ on whether those were about freedom. Still the exhibit itself was in general well presented and is worth seeing.
date: '2005-09-22 11:39:09' layout: post slug: writely-update status: publish ref: http://www.writely.com/ title: Writely Update wordpress_id: '86' categories: Programming
I was wrong, writely does support hyperlinks and spell checking (as demonstrated by this posting), and they responded to my feedback very quickly. So it really is a very nice tool for writing blog posts. My experience as a very small sample usability test indicates perhaps that the UI design and help text should be tweaked a little to make the available features more obvious.
It so happens I am co-writing a paper with someone outside my company right now, so I think I will test to see if collaborative writing works. However he is on a Mac, so perhaps he will run into the Safari problem.
date: '2005-09-21 23:32:13' layout: post slug: writely status: publish title: Writely wordpress_id: '85' categories: Programming
I remember back in the dot-com boom days one of the new-new things were ASPs, application service providers, who provide hosted applications to replace enterprise and desktop applications. In fact I was one of the team on such a venture developing a collaboration tool for small businesses.
When brainstorming over what applications were good candidates for web hosting, I remember we explicitly rejected word processing as not being suitable. But that was before AJAX.
Now, I am posting this entry using a service called Writely, which is a web-hosted word processor that allows multiple people to collaborate on writing a document. I can do all the usual styling like bold, italic, underline, different fonts, and different sizes. It is a well executed application, though still missing a lot of features like, as far as I can tell, spell checking and hyperlinks.