Attaching more photos

This is a photo I'm adding directly from Picasa - a table from a friend's cottage in the Cotwalds. Elegantly plain...

WikiMindMap

So the next task was to blog about something tech-y, and I thought I would say something about WikiMindMap.

This is a really interesting API which analyses a wiki (the live web version works with Wikipedia, but the site says that WikiMindMap will soon be available as intranet solution, so it could be used to analyse any wiki.)

If you think about it, a good wiki is structured by a whole group of contributors who determine the linkages and associations between entries. So, while the software only analyses the structure of the wiki, that structure really is a mind map if the wiki is any good.

Have a play, and see how you can move from Rousseau to Romanticism...

I've just uploaded a few more images, including my all-time-favourite memorial plaque - from a monument to Edmund Fettiplace in the church at Swinbrook in the Cotswolds (Swinbrook is also the village that the Mitfords come from...)

It reads:

IN PIOVS MEMORIE OF SR EDMVND FETTIPLACE, KNIGHT ON

READ AND RECORD RARE EDMVND FETTIPLACE:
A KNIGHT MOST WORTHY OF HIS RANK & RACE:
WHOSE PRVDENT MANEGE IN, TWO HAPPIE RAIGNES,
WHOSE PVBLIQUE SERVICE, & WHOSE PRIVATE PAINES.
WHOSE ZEALE, TO GOD, & TOWARDS ILL, SEVERITIE,
WHOSE TEMPERANCE, WHOSE IVSTICE, WHOSE SINCERITIE,
WHOSE NATIVE MYLDNES, TOWARDS GREAT AND SMALL
WHOSE FAITH AND LOVE, TO FRENDS, WIFE CHILDREN, ALL
IN LIFE AND, DEATH MADE HIM BELOVED, AND DEER
TO GOD AND MENN; AND EVER FAMOUS HEER:
BLESSED IN SOULE, IN BODIE, GOODS, AND NAME.
IN PLENIOVS PARTS BY A MOST VERTIOVS DAME.
WHO WITH HEI HEIRE AS TO HIS WORTH STILL DEBTER
BVILT HIM THIS TOOMB, BVT IN HER HEART A BETTER.

More Flickr - just found this image of the Cementerio de Recoleta in Buenos Aires. Amazing.

Maybe time to stop now, while I'm still inspired.

But it brings to mind the 7 1/2 lifelong learning thingies. Count me in for the final half. Play is the thing...

#5a - more Flickr

btw Moo is very cool - see http://www.moo.com/ - a great way of using your's (and others') Flickr images at relatively minimal cost. Moo was mentioned on a recent Digital Planet program as an example of how sites such as Flickr can encourage community engagement by making their api (Application Programming Interface) widely available.

I thoroughly recommend the BBC's Digital Planet - a great weekly update on technology stuff, available as a subscribable podcast...

And now I've worked out how to do a hyperlink, anyone following this won't have to cut and paste the url into their browser (not that anyone will be following this, necessarily...)

#5a - more Flickr

btw Moo is very cool - see http://www.moo.com/ - a great way of using your (and other's) Flickr images at relatively minimal cost. Moo was mentioned on a recent Digital Planet program as an example of how sites such as Flickr can encourage community engagement by making their api (Application Programming Interface).

I thoroughly recommend the BBC's Digital Planet
- a great weekly update on technology stuff, available as a subscribable podcast...

And now I've worked out how to do a hyperlink, anyone following this won't have to cut and paste the url into their browser (not that anyone will be following this, necessarily...)

#5 Discover flickr

Hmmmn, just uploaded a range of photos to Flickr - holidays in New Zealand (2006) and the UK (2003). Again, easy - just need to add some tags once they've uploaded.

OK, done.

Just logged onto Flickr again to see how it looked - the site greeted me in Swedish - 'Hej...'. How droll...

Anyway, if you go to Flickr (and it doesn't have the hiccups, as it claims to at the moment) and search on andrew h1 (bit of a give away, that, as to my identity!), you can find a few shots from recent and not-so-recent but-very-expensive-so-worth-remembering holidays... Or you can go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrew h1/ (assuming the link works in the not-too-distant-future...)

Just also browsed around some other users. I thought that atreliu's photos of a fencing competition in Milan was pretty compelling - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/atreliu/

Or you can look at this photo of a kids' basketball team - http://www.flickr.com/photos/10082963@N08/851211642/ - what a great album cover it would make...

#3 Grab yourself a blog in 3 steps

Well that was relatively easy - less than 3 minutes I would have thought!

Just noticing the toolbar at the top of the editing pane, I thought I would try to upload an image as well. This is the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.