Archive for the ‘miscellaneous’ Category

Bing Search – A Review

My colleague Alexis Harakis has recently started blogging and has done a great post independently analysing Bing search.  He seems to have selflessly spent a lot of time checking out the quality of porn searches!  However he does present a very valid argument about the significance of these searches commercially.

History of the Internet

I enjoyed this:

Ok so it is a bit of a plug for IE8…

Wordle

I have been having fun with wordle.net and generating Wordle’s for my blog.  I seem to have an obsession with panoramas at the moment:

Image by http://www.wordle.net/ Images of Wordles are licensed.
I recommend trying your own…

Yet more snow in Tirol

The view from my window this morning. We’re getting a lot of snow this winter.

Creating Deep Zoom Panoramas with ICE

Recently I have been playing around Image Composite Editor (ICE) and have found it a really good, simple (and free!) tool for stitching photo panoramas.  Therefore I have been re-visiting some photo panoramas I have taken over the years and stitching them in ICE. 
The problem I have always had is that panoramas are [...]

Photo for the day

I took it here.  It is one of these.

Surface at the Super Bowl

Microsoft Surface and the Falcon Eye application were used at the recent Super Bowl to manage security at the massive event.  Tampa Incident Commander used Surface to manage, oversee, and assign actions to his ground force (even for contacting them direct from surface via the radio network).
This great implementation of Microsoft Surface  and mapping software [...]

Two Seasons, Two Photosynths

I’m quite proud of these two photosynths I did of the same monument in Nunhead Cemetery.  One was in the summer, the other this week in the snow…  Both are 100% synthy!
 
 

A rare site in London

Taken here:

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A perfect Christmas walk

Taken in the Quantocks here.