A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
I frequently check to see what other sites are linking to mine. As I did that this evening, I stumbled upon a goldmine of GIS resources. The US Army maintains a huge clearinghouse of resources at www.tech.army.mil/gis/. There are four quite long pages of links to just about anything related to geography and mapping. Under … Read More “GIS Information Goldmine” »
Today was just a day for roadblocks – first Flickr, then my own street. The county finally closed off our street. Soon the pavement will be removed, and construction will begin on the cul-du-sac. Traffic is being re-routed on other parallel streets. The other morning, Laura was driving on Tranquil Drive, and said that a … Read More “More Roadblocks” »
Happy 60th Anniversary! Putting up with each other for that long is a great achievement. Putting up with the rest of us is even more amazing! Congratulations! Stephen has a much better way with words, so I’ll just link to his tribute.
When I first got to my office early this morning I opened up RandomConnections to check comments and clean out the boatload of spam comments that tends to accumulate overnight. The first thing I noticed was that all of my photos were missing. If I clicked through to get to the actual photo page, the … Read More “So Much for Flickr” »
Right now there are three main players in the photo geotagging world – Flickr, Panoramio, and Picasa. All three of these list geotagging as a feature, and provide easy drag-n-drop apps for adding location to the images. I was curious as to whether or not other big photo sharing sites, specifically Photobucket, WebShots, and Kodak … Read More “Geotagging the Also Rans” »
I found this via my brother Stephen’s Tumblr account – an application that analyzes the readability level of various blogs and websites. My Master’s degree is in Reading Instruction, so I’ve spent a good bit of time studying readability levels and lexile scores for text. I’m actually quite please with this outcome for RandomConnections… I … Read More “Readability Level” »
The placement of the Chic-fil-a cows was truly unfortunate.
After I finished my photo walk with the other Flickrites, it was time for Homecoming activities. I wasn’t sure how many of my friends would be around – it’s the 25th reunion for the class just before me, so there might have been some long lost classmates returning. I had commitments from two friends, Alan … Read More “Furman Homecoming 2007” »
Early Saturday morning four of us who post to Flickr met up at Furman for a photowalk as part of the Exposure.Greenville! Flickr group. Photographers Eric Morris (Rested Traveler), Pher Reinman (PU Skunk) and Patrick Greer (linkerjpatrick) joined me next to the lake at a very early 8:30 AM so that we could catch the … Read More “Furman Flickr Foto Foursome” »
This weekend was Homecoming at Furman, and it was an anniversary for Laura and I. We first met the Friday evening of Homecoming twenty years ago. Back then, Homecoming was held in mid-October rather than the first of November, so the actual date was October 16. To commemorate, we did our traditional walk down the … Read More “Homecoming Anniversary” »