Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

Spencer talking to Hillary while I look on.

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Originally uploaded by marcn.

The last couple of weekends have been busy, but Griffin and I found some time today to continue documenting the Turkey Hill Graveyard.

We are about 1/4 of the way through with 94 photos and with the school year rapidly approaching, this looks like a multi-year project.

Fathers’ Day 2005

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Two Rectangles, Vertical Gyrotory Up, Variation III (Chrinitoid @ RPI)

Originally uploaded by marcn.

I was tripping down memory lane and dug out some photos from RPI. Here is a fairly
good one of the Chrinitoid I took graduation weekend 1986. Okay, it was taken with one of those cheap-ass Kodak Disc cameras, but hey, there aren’t may photos of it.

Matthew Thornton (1714-1803) New Hampshire graveyard sign

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Geotagging is a way to tag your photos with a latitude/longitude on flickr.com and have them mapped using Google Maps.

geobloggers.com just does that.

Basically you add the tags “geotagged“, “geo:lat=xx.xxxx” and “geo:lon=xx.xxxx” to a photo and optionally (but I’ve not see it work otherwise) put a link to geobloggers.com in the photo description.

When you click on the link, it will show that photo on a zoomable google map.

This afternoon Griffin and I took some photos around Matthew Thornton’s gravesite. Drill down can you can see the relative location of all the gravestones. Don’t know who Matthew Thornton was?

I’m trying to convince Spencer and Griffin geotagging a cemetery closer to the house would make
a great summer project — using digital camera, GPS, using the PC, helping genealogists, and of course, the possibility of fame — hopefully will be enough to get them interested.

Around 10am in Merrimack, it took perhaps all of 15 minutes to vote. I’ve put some photos over on http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn

Wendy, doing GOTV (Get Out The Vote) for Kerry/Edwards, has been on the road since 5:30am getting signs out to folks, voter rolls to the poll watchers, names and maps to canvasser.

Busy, busy, busy.

This photo I took with an HP 318 digital camera came out much better than
those taken with the SLR.

A coworker said “gee, I just used my timer to take the picture so I don’t have the jitter”. D’oh!

A few weeks ago I was at work reading a blog on Microsoft’s developer’s blog site about some lessons learned on a particular development project. Boring project management stuff really. The second comment was along the lines of:

“Good stuff. I’ve just finished defending my masters paper on this same topic. Click here to read it http://www.some-reasonable-looking-site/lastmeasure”

Bam! Tons of popups, moving, resizing windows, really disturbing porn/violent images all over the place, but the best part was the sound — at the loudest volume — ‘HEY EVERYBODY! I’M LOOKING AT GAY PORN!’ repeated over and over and over.

Fortunately I had headphones on at the time and running Firefox on Linux, so killing it was simple.

Sadly, it appears the MS blogger has removed the comment from his site and I’ve X’ed out the
offending site. However if you are clever with google, you’ll be able to find where it has moved to.

Here is the email I passed on to some (now former) friends….

Subject: Hey everybuddy!

Here is a cool new site. Make sure you have the volume turned way
up — it may be hard to hear.

http://XXX.XX/lastmeasure/

It works best in a work environment.

NOT!

Best viewed NOT at work and with the headphones on.

I got the link from one of the comments
of the article “21 Rules of Thumb “ How Microsoft develops its Software”
http://blogs.msdn.com/David_Gristwood/archive/2004/06/24/164849.aspx

This is a much more obnoxious version of the previous URL –
http://XXX.XXXXXXX.XXX/~lysol/lm.swf

The Red Cross came to work this week and I’ve finally had the nerve to look at the needle while in my arm. Okay, so I had the [phlebotomist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation) take the photo and I looked later.

20+ years of donating and the thought still wigs me out.