I've worked on many current-event articles in Wikipedia; however, I cannot remember when a current event happened close enough to me to actually be able to observe it unfold in real time. That happened on Tuesday when the Town Lake west dam collapsed; while I was not on campus at the time, I did track it as soon as news broke on wiki (although to be honest, I reverted the initial reports since nobody in the traditional media had reported it online at the time).
I went to the lake to take pictures of the rupture's aftermath, and I've posted all of them on Flickr. I also posted one in the Wikimedia Commons, and to my delight it has been used by other people in the online community. :) So it feels rather different to be "reporting" on news than to be searching for photographs or articles in the news...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Sometimes interesting stuff happens
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Map projections
On-topic for a change... :P
Die.net shows an interesting utility for graphing the illuminated half of the Earth at any given time. It's nifty, but the fact that it uses Blue Marble, just as the track map generator does, makes me wonder about how it can be integrated into the track program... particularly of interest would be the modifications to different projections, as we're restricted to only a carte parallelogrammatique in our output. They use ImageMagick, so we even share a back end... hmm.
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Winding Road 2
I'll be posting some pics from the trip gradually.
Here's one of the ones I liked the most; I clicked on the "enhance" option in iPhoto '08 to improve the dynamic range of the picture, although I'm not sure whether I like it over the original. Anyways, enjoy...
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