“There were actually other reasons in addition to “insufficient progress” that caused the wash-out. One was a loss of interest on my part in flying only level and in very gentle turns. But I had also developed a fear of the airplane. One evening an inspector had somehow dropped a lighted flare down through the flare chute, and it caught the fabric-covered plane on fire. In just over two minutes by the clock, the AT-17 was reduced almost to ashes. That wasn’t a pleasant thing to hear about. So those are the reasons my stay at Roswell lasted only about five weeks.”
http://www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/mshwp32.htm
Marshall Stelzriede, March 4, 1919 - January 1, 2005.
April 25, 2008
Tim Berners Lee talked about the semantic web to Tamsin Toddin - The Independent 17 May 1999.
Berners-Lee: “If the Web turns all the documents in the world into one big book, then the semantic web will turn all the databases in the world into one big database”
This allows inter-operability
Seven years on, the BBC collaborated with Microsoft Live Labs. Photosynth creates three- dimensional representations of some of the most dramatic buildings in Britain by combining hundreds of different photographs.
Using metadata.
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/bbc/
April 22, 2008
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=10304&replies=1#post-72061
March 16, 2008
“I hold my inventive capacity on the stern condition that it must master my whole life, often have complete possession of me, make its own demands on me, and sometimes for months together put everything else away from me… Whoever is devoted to an art must be content to deliver himself up to it and to find his recompense.”
Quote from Dickens on Painter Philip Guston’s wall - in last decade of his life.
In 1999 Guston’s dealer couldn’t source the quote (the web still infant). Nine years later Google has indexed it. The world has changed.
March 16, 2008
Janet made the internet accessible in 1984, UK
Book: Cybergypsies by Indra Sinha (1999)
March 16, 2008
Chris Gulker 1999 - I’ll come back to this - nothing much has changed. http://www.gulker.com
Chris Gulker
Monday, 11 October 1999
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/beware-the-knock-on-thedoor-from-the-information-police-743209.html
Nature tends not to favour large, isolated aggregates of anything. This is whythere tends to be air in every corner of a room - air doesn’t naturally accrete to some mysterious central power in one corner, leaving a vacuumelsewhere in the room. Well, information tends to behave similarly. The adage “information wants to be free” underscores the tendency ofinformation to spread rapidly in all available directions. Evenly distributedinformation empowers all equally.
Western history is full of examples ofsocial arrangements where wealth and power were not equitably distributed,and life was rough in those times. Few of us, probably, would bewilling to trade our life for that of a feudal serf, for example.
Thusan arrangement that allows the unequal distribution of information is the firststep toward the unequal distribution of other things. Yet the mere gatheringof information isn’t illegal - students and researchers do it everyday, and much good has come of that. In any case, it would bedifficult to prevent, even if it were to be outlawed.
March 15, 2008
2000: Maitland, who has given himself a year to make a million out of trading shares on the net, refuses to take his bad luck too seriously. In addition to this week’s anticipated loss, he dropped another £10,000 last month.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/702935.stm
March 14, 2008
nasa.gov/gallery/photo
photographymuseum.com/believe1.html
foto8.com
moderna.org/lookatme
March 13, 2008
neen.org
http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html
london-underground.blogspot.com
http://www.openlibrary.org/
http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/japansurrender.htm
March 2, 2008
eurolines.com
couchsurfing.com
Hostelz.com
flycheapo.com
http://www.geograph.org.uk
February 9, 2008
The first website went online on August 6, 1991 - by Tim Berners-Lee. (TBL or TimBL)
He was a physicist working in Switzerland - Cern.
Has returned to Unitarian church after birth of children.
And at what has become of his invention? See: hatsofmeat.com
February 9, 2008
meettheauthor.co.uk
abebooks too - out of print
February 9, 2008
Google made a deal in 2004 with university libraries to scan their stocks and make the content available online.
knowledge for all! say Google
other voices are more cautious
the search engine says John Sutherland professor of English at UCL is not an index.
An index is the work of the mind with knowledge.
A search engine produces results from an algorithm
algorithms are not necessarily better — just draw on popularity etc.
February 8, 2008
jet washing is okay as long as you stand about 6 foot from the car. Good for underneath the vehicle.
No machine can match old-fashioned hand cleaning.
Always hose down the car first to get rid of dirt that could mark the paintwork.
Then, they use a wash mitt — it has the texture of sheepskin.
Use a soft bristle brush to get into tricky areas.
Wash using a high quality car shampoo in warm water. You’ll need a second bucket of cleanup warm water to rinse the mitt after each use
don’t use washing-up liquid. It contains salt and will degrease the wax finish. Not good.
Start at the top of the car and work down. Leave the wheels till last, because that is where the dirt is thickest. Brake dust needs to be removed. It will become baked if left long enough.
Then rinse with soft water, which will stop streaking. A chamois leather, will help leave a streak free finish too.
February 8, 2008
