I have just put my first batch of daily photos on-line. This includes my journey to London from 2 days ago. The presentation I gave, by the way, aroused curiosity among members of the audience.
 
 

I have continously come across a couple of ducks that somehow found their way to the centre of Manchester. Today I dared to approach and take a picture — one of the 20 pictures that I take every day.

ach and every one of us writes and we all use quotes and apostrophes on occasions. Terrible it is to see how often they are chosen wrongly, or even worse, at random.

TECHWR-L provided me with a long-sought answer. It also revealed that I was using the British style without being aware of it. Statements require double quotes, scare quotes have a single. Have a read to get a short lesson in punctuation.

…I’d suggest British English generally uses double quotes for speech (“Let’s go to the beach,” Jane suggested) but single quotes for things like scare quotes (‘respected’ news sites)…

famous tale speaks of a naked king, who being the King, makes nakedness blindly accepted as a norm. No suspicion is raised until one man from the crowd yells “The King is naked“. This comes to show that the flock can accept things without using any self-judgement.

Likewise, Internet users circulate bits which gain their value from word of mouth. One such example is the Satellite Google Maps hype. When the net became aware of the service, everyone quickly got excited. This probably wouldn’t have been the case if was not a Google feature. I looked at satellite images of this type back in 1999 or 2000 (using TerraServer) and identified friends’ homes. It wasn’t as widespread at the time because there wasn’t as great a ‘buzz’.

An actual satellite image of a field in Illinois

I recently decided to take on a little obligation. I would like see if I can handle 20 low-resolution pictures a day; every single day, that is. I have made the process of transferring data from my camera to the Web very efficient and I will soon discover how my pictures collage extends (see an example from my health club).

Certain on-line services offer customised information as images. Wundeground deliver your local weather as a GIF file and DanaSoft provide informative signatures, as shown below. Since both are displayed regularly in my personal portal, I like using the functionality of CSS which clips images as illustrated in this example page. Feel free to copy.

Some relevant code from the example:

<div style="position:absolute; top:5; left:10;
clip:rect(12px auto 40px auto)">
<img
src="http://www.danasoft.com/sig/fookitnow.jpg"
style="border:1px #000 solid;" />
</div>


ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has come out with an announcement about the new .jobs and .travel domain suffixes, while considering .asia, .mail, .tel, and .xxx.

I previously criticised ICANN (registrars particularly) about making things worse. They allow virtually anybody to take over an unsuitable domain name; now they consider the .xxx suffix. Is that what the Internet involves? Jobs, leisure and pr0n? It is about time the Internet adopted a tree structure to clear up the chaos.