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Yahoo! is running the largest Hadoop clusters in the world, but what exactly is the Yahoo! Distribution and why is Yahoo! sharing its investment in testing Hadoop?
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Eric Baldeschwieler, VP Hadoop Software Development at Yahoo!, will be giving a breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com) in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 - 4, 2009, that answers those questions.
His session is entitled "Hadoop @ Yahoo! - Internet Scale Data Processing."
The session will cover major use-cases for Hadoop @ Yahoo!, explain how it benefits the larger cloud ecosystem, and provide a glance into the exciting plans moving forward around Hadoop and related open source technologies.
About the Speaker:
Eric Baldeschwieler, VP Hadoop Software Development at Yahoo!, has been a member of Yahoo!s web-search/cloud teams since 1996 and the founder of the Yahoo! team that has taken Hadoop from 20 nodes prototype to 25,000+ nodes of production usage.
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Baldeschwieler's session will among other things underline how we are in the midst of a revolutionary change in how applications are sold, delivered, deployed and managed.
The conference is co-located at the Santa Clara Convention Center with the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
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Sponsors and Exhibitors:
Early sponsors and exhibitors of the upcoming 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo include:
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Keynote & Breakout Session Speakers at the combined event at the Santa Clara Convention Center include:
DAY ONE KEYNOTE - November 2, 2009
DAY TWO KEYNOTE: November 3, 2009
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How the Delivery of Virtualization is Being Transformed
My Cloud, Your Cloud, Our Cloud
Shifting Clouds: How the Cloud Landscape is Evolving
Working with Big Data and Hadoop
How the CIO Becomes a Hero Again
Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
Application Delivery Networks & Cloud Computing
Leveraging Cloud-Based Integration To Increase Customer Loyalty, Retention and Revenues
The Rich Services Cloud
Top Cloud Computing Security Risks
The Enterprise Private Cloud: From Infrastructure to Applications
Understanding the Relationship between Workloads and the Cloud
Rich Internet Applications in the Cloud - A Match Made in Heaven
Application Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
User Virtualization for Dynamic VDI and Personalized Virtual Desktops
Migrating Collaborative Applications to the Cloud
Orchestration in the Cloud
Cloud Security - It's Nothing New; It Changes Everything!
Developing Advantage: Platform Leverage in the Cloud
Cloud Management: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Cloud Apps
Tactical Cloud Computing
Delivering Desktop Virtualization
Cloud & SaaS Proponents: Know Your Enemies!
Negotiating the Virtual/Grid/Cloud Legal Minefield
Technologies for Virtualization-Based Desktop Management
Virtualizing Resources in Production Database Systems
Trusted Computing for Virtualization Security
Policy Enforcement in the Virtualized Data Center
Managing Sprawl and Self-Service for Virtual Machines
Cloud Computing as a Strategy: Enabling IT's Evolutionary Change
Cloud Computing Bootcamp
A New Role in the Cloud for a Tried and Tested Schemaless Database
Securing the Cloud and Establishing a Level of Trust
Moving Your RIA Apps into the Cloud: 7 Challenges
Cannibalizing Google App Engine
Yahoo! Query Language - YQL: select * from internet [including Live Demo]
Revolutionizing Security Through Virtualization
Bringing Cloud Computing Down to Earth with Ultra Low-Cost Endpoints
Top Infrastructure Headaches When Managing Applications in the Cloud
Cloud Computing Drives Real World Enterprise IT Value
Building Scalable and Extensible RIAs on Windows Azure
Does Enterprise-Class Cloud Storage Really Exist?
Cloud Storage - Cutting Through the Hype
Case Study: Disaster Recovery in the Storage Cloud
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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Cultural, regulatory, environmental, political and economic (CREPE) conditions over the past decade are creating cross-industry solution spaces that require processes and technologies from both the Internet of Things (IoT), and Data Management and Analytics (DMA). These solution spaces are evolving into Sensor Analytics Ecosystems (SAE) that represent significant new opportunities for organizations of all types. Public Utilities throughout the world, providing electricity, natural gas and water, are pursuing SmartGrid initiatives that represent one of the more mature examples of SAE. We have s...
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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"They thought it would be easy," says Dave Mattson, CEO of sales-training company Sandler Systems. "Large American companies thought selling globally would be simple and that they would save money by gaining efficiencies. It's not working out exactly that way."
Mattson elaborated that companies that have started selling globally within the last decade – typically to tap into the mounting wealth in the developing world (in Brazil, China, etc.) and better serve the new breed of thoroughly global business – have, in fact, often experienced benefits. But they also have encountered epidemic problems across a range of areas: "On the people side, with processes, even with rollouts of tools, there can be surprising problems when a company goes global," says Mattson.
That said, businesses have learned an immense amount since the first wave of globalization swept American industry a generation ago. And they are doing all this much, much better than, if also differently from, when they started.
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He adds that the how-to, the mechanics, of selling vary enormously from country to country. "In Australia, our sales come out of face-to-face meetings. In the United States, we close many deals on the phone."
At Lingo24, a translation service for corporate clients with offices in Scotland, England, the United States, Panama, and Romania, company director Christian Arno says, "We do what fits the culture. That's what you have to do when selling internationally."
Some countries – Germany and Japan, for instance – value deliberate relationship building before the sale. Other countries – notably the United States – can dive in with little prelude.
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By way of proof that these people were not the only ones perhaps failing to behave in a way that would be considered by some to be entirely appropriate for the solemnity of the place, here are some photos that I took of Bald Blokes Photoing The Poppies:
I too was being inappropriately frivolous.
Click to get the bigger pictures.
Those snaps are picked because the focus, such as it is, is on the bald heads, rather than on the cameras or what the cameras are pointed at. Bald heads are, I am learning (more than I ever did before), infinitely bizarre sites, like maps of strange deserts from the air, full of mysterious marks and indentations, with subtle changes in the vegetation.
But, inevitably, after picking out those snaps, I came upon other pictures of Bald Blokes Photoing The Poppies that I considered also to be deserving of notice.
This one, for instance, is one of the burst of about half a dozen that I took of Bald Bloke Number 3 above. This one focuses on the picture he is taking rather than on his baldness, and I particularly like how it came out:
Or how about this one, which is a first, in my quest for Bald Blokes Taking Photos. Two Bald Blokes taking photos!:
Does the Bald Bloke nearest to me also like to take photos of Bald Blokes Taking Photos?
Finally, a bloke photoing The Poppies who is only pretending to be bald:
Note that he hasn't shaved his head for a few days, but a few days ago, he did, entirely.
This is the snap that proves, as all who care already know well, that this totally bald look is a fashion statement, rather than just bald blokes pretending to make a fashion statement, to disguise their partial baldness. Because here is a guy who is not bald at all doing it. He has nothing ignoble to disguise, yet he adopts this look anyway.
Classic photo of photoers (which I found here):
It's the new see through walkway at the top of Tower Bridge. All the reportage concentrates on what you can see looking down through it. But when I visit, I am going to check out what you can see photoing through it from below. Which will have the added benefit of being far cheaper.
Zoom lenses are rather good these days.
And guess what, I actually want other people to have the same idea, so I can photo them photoing upwards also.
One of the problems of big arrays of Poppies is that, like at funerals, you feel a certain pressure to adopt the proper tone of solemnity, like you being solemn is going to stop the First World War having happened, or something. No, really, I do get it. It's very sad, what with all those soldiers having died, and what with lots of the people present perhaps remembering particular departed loved ones. You probably shouldn't be enjoying yourself too obviously.
And in particular, you probably shouldn't be doing this. But, you do it anyway:
But maybe that is just me, being a bit grumpy, and using my grumpiness as an excuse to violate the privacy of strangers who really weren't doing anything very wrong. Nobody else seemed to have any problem with these selfie takers. The feeling seemed to be: This Thing means, to you, whatever you decide it means to you. If what it means to you is a chance for you to take a smiling selfie with lots of bright red in the background, well, okay. And I think I agree.
I certainly had fun photoing these people.
Doing photography makes me happy, both as something for me to do and as something for me to photo others doing. Before digital photography, I had the usual dislike felt by people of my nationality and with my approximate level of upbringing and education for crowds of tourists, barging their way around my city, bumping into me and making me feel insignificant, like they owned the place which of course they sort of did and sort of do. The Masses were bad enough as a mere idea, but actually seeing them, Massed, made it even worse.
Tourism, I used to tell myself, unthinkingly, is not "real". But tourism is every bit as real as an Amazonian rainforest, just as affluent suburbs are as real as inner city sink estates. And ever since I discovered the joy of photoing these crowds of tourists, tourists taking photos, photos of my city and of each other, and of themselves, I have deliberately mingled with these crowds, which basically means that I have become a tourist myself, in London, the city where I live. A state of silly and unthinking grumpiness has been replaced by a far more thoughtful and philosophically elevated state of happiness and smugness. Happiness and smugness are also just as real as misery, and my happiness and smugness is all the happier and smugger because provoked by the exact same things as I had formerly been making myself miserable about.
Crowds like those pictured below, in other words, are just as real as the events that all those red Poppies that everyone has come to see hark back to. One of the many remarkable things about these Poppies is the huge - truly enormous – scale not just of the Poppies themselves, but of the crowds of people who have journeyed to the Tower of London to look at them. Here are a couple of my better Poppies crowd shots:
My single most unforgettable Poppies Crowds Moment did not happen to me when I was actually there being a part of one of these crowds, but in a tube station in some other nearby part of central London, the weekend before last. I was on an escalator, and an intercom voice started saying that if I intended visiting the Tower of London to see The Poppies (I didn't – not that day), then I should definitely consider using another tube station besides Tower tube station, because Tower tube station was jam packed or words to that effect. I should go instead, said the voice, to another nearby tube station (the voice offered several suggested alternatives) and walk from there, from only a little bit further away. That's how big the crowds have been. And instead of snarling with silly rage at that announcement, I instead said to myself: I must remember to put that on my blog. Which has been another source of great happiness to me, and would have been even if I had not got stuck into photography.
The way to photo "iconic" buildings is to muck around with them. You can't just stick up your basic passport photos of them, so to speak, because everyone's seen that, even the foreigners.
You have to put your iconic building next to something else, perhaps iconic in a different way ...:
… or, you bounce your IB off a non-iconic building covered in slightly bendy glass.
Or you photo it through a Riverside Thing …:
… or behind an Iconic Bridge (the one that wobbled (see the posting immediately below)).
Or you put something else in front of it, like a photographer, and have the IB itself behind and way out of focus.
That works fine because the whole point of an IB is that you can recognise it even if it is ridiculously blurry, the way you never could a regular building.
Or, you photo it on the screen of another photographer, perhaps even a bald bloke photographer. I am now collecting bald bloke photographers, and believe me, the species is now very abundant. And by the way, if you click and look at bit carefully, you can see that the bald bloke had the same idea as me about photoing the reflected version of the Shard, rather than just the Thing itself:
As the autumn light fades, the screens of other photographers shine ever more brightly. (LATER: And, on the right there, I see cranes.)
I picked those four snaps of snappers entirely because I liked them. But, they are all pictures of snappers using their mobile phones. Mobile phone cameras are getting better and better. But of course. I mean, would they be getting worse?
But having said all that, I do like this:
No frills, no complications, just the top of the IB itself, with a bit of orange light from somewhere.
All of the above photos were taken on my way to and from the Tower of London, about tendays ago, to see all those poppies.
LATER: How in the world could I possibly have failed to include, in this, this?
Shard on camera screen, and poppies. But, this time, a clunky old camera camera rather than a mobile phone camera.
The other day, I forget which one, I worked something out that had been confusing me. Why, given all the fun I get out of photography and given all the time I spend doing it and thinking about it, have I not immersed myself in all the technicalities of photography? Why is it that the only setting on my camera that I regularly use is the one called "Automatic"? Why am I no nearer to understanding manual focussing than I was a decade ago?
The answer is that it is the point-and-shoot sort of photography that strikes me as the most interesting sort of photography now happening. Not in art galleries where the latest black-and-white photos of plague victims or under-age African soldiers are on display, in photos that cost more to buy than paintings and took more trouble to produce. That is all so twentieth century, and even, actually, nineteenth century. What counts now, for me, are the photos you can take with your mobile phone camera, or with the jumped-up mobile phone camera that I use, and the sort of photos that regular people are now able to take, of regular stuff rather than of foreign catastrophes that someone will pay them to take art-gallery standard photos of.
In short, I take point-and-shoot pictures because I like to be part of history, and this is where the history of photography now is. (If you disagree, realise that what you are reading is not an argument. It is a description of a feeling.)
What I have is called a "bridge" camera, but all that this means is that it is a bog-standard point-and-shoot camera that takes somewhat better photos when you go click, and which has a twiddly screen, and a lens that can go from close-up to mega-zoom without any faffing about with multiple lenses. I have the best cheap camera that I can get, rather than the cheapest proper camera. Oh, you can set my camera on manual and go all Real Photographer with it. But if you want to do that, you should have a proper Real Photographer camera, not a bridge camera, and you should have a rucksack full of lenses, each perfect for each oh-so-carefully-taken shot. What "bridge" means is the best camera you can have without having to give any thought to "photography". Instead, you just think about the picture. More precisely, you think about what you see and which of the things that you see are the most interesting, and why.
My camera is not really any sort of "bridge". Bridge suggests that I am going somewhere with it, somewhere different, as in different from the technical point of view. But I'm not. Technically, I am staying right where I am. If I am getting better at photography, it is because I am getting better at choosing what to point my camera at.
A bridge camera is rather like "crossover" music in that respect. Crossover music is not for people who are actually doing any crossing over, from one sort of music to any other sort of music. Crossover music is its own sort of music. The people who like crossover music (and there's nothing wrong with that) are people who like crossover music and who will continue to listen to crossover music, with no actual crossing over from any other sort of music to any other sort of music happening at all.
No links, because I thought of this all by myself.
Today, blogwise, has been one of those days. By that I mean not that I have been too busy to do any blogging. I merely mean that I haven't felt like doing any, and have in fact not, until now. I have had plenty of time to blog. I just haven't used any of it to blog.
So, it's just as well that, I now discover, there has been an incoming email from Michael Jennings, entitled:
If you want to ride a really old bus, here is your chance.
Which reminds me that, recently, when mostly photoing photoers photoing Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, I found myself photoing, instead, this:
He wasn't taking photos. He was checking through photos he'd taken earlier.
I can remember when buses like that were the latest thing.
LATER: More about those Tower of London poppies. I read that Guardian piece before I discovered Guido was already on to it, and I thought it was weird too. Like one of the commenters, and Guido, said: clickbait. Plus, as another commenter said: yeah, the general public likes it, it means something, no wonder the Guardian art critic can't be doing with it. Let's hope Natalie Solent gives the piece a good fisking like it's 2004.
I know what you are thinking. That there is no connection between a big red historic thing which people just never forget about and a big red thing about an historic thing which people just never forget about. Something along those lines?
Can you quotulate a picture? I just did. I just quotulated a picture of a Canadian train leaving a Canadian railway station, in this posting, at Quotulatiousness.
The original picture, I thought when I saw it, was good, but mostly what I thought it was was good in parts. So, I sliced out the parts that I particularly liked, and I now feature those best bits here:
I also did a bit of rotating.
What I like is the reflection of the train, and the shadows, and especially the shadow of the photographer, a digital photographer thing that I always enjoy, both when I do it, or when others do it.
By homing in on these merits, I believe I draw more attention to them than did the original taker of the photo.
LATER: The Quotulator quotulates me.
Spent this evening (a) continuing to be ill (thanks for the kind comments), (b) reading a book, because (c) Godot was being built, again, in my kitchen.
This is being posted with Dawkins, because Godot is now not working. For the last fortnight Godot has been working, but not properly.
As for Godot working, properly, up to speed, all bells ringing, all whistles whistling, well, you know the answer to that.
I am still waiting.
LATER, The Guru photos progress:
Digital photography has, I believe, made a huge contribution not only to fun, but to the economy. So much of work is keeping track of what work you have done, and digital photography makes this far easier.
I am rather ill, so will be brief.
I have opened a Bald Blokes Taking Photos photo file. So far, my favourite bald bloke taking a photo photo is this one, taken in July of this year:
I like (a) the Shard in his picture. There are other photos in this file of equally good bald blokes, and some of them have come out even better, with more detail. But you can't tell from the photo what they're photoing, which I rate a drawback.
And I like (b) the amazing sort of horizontal rift valley at the back of his head, that many bald blokes have (some of them more than one).
Enjoy. For me, it's back to being ill.
Indeed. You don't see this kind of thing every day:
But I did. Today.
As a general rule, I don't advise combining ice cream with photography. Do one or the other. That is the rule I recommend. But these guys were doing an excellent job of merging these two things, and they weren't just eating their ice creams and doing photography. They were photoing their ice creams.
I congratulated them for the excellence of their photographic imagination, and they were really pleased to hear this. I asked if I could photo them. Yes, they replied. And when I said "photo", I meant, as they surely understood, photo them and put pictures of them up at my blog:
I also took lots photos of a demo outside Parliament by Kurds, demanding help from Britain in their battles against ISIS. Maybe (I promise nothing) I'll put some of those snaps either here or on Samizdata, perhaps tomorrow.
The lion statues in Tragalgar Square are famous, and they deserve to be. But there is another lion statue in London that I am also fond of, namely the one on the far side of Westminster Bridge from the Houses of Parliament. I like, when I walk along beside the river next to St Thomas' Hospital, to photo it lined up with the Wheel.
Here is how it looked, on the day I also took these photos, and these, and these:
I really liked this when I saw it. You wouldn't want a guide lion, but, that's the joke.
And this other guy liked it too:
I couldn't wait for Friday to come round so I could show these snaps to you people. Inconveniently, I took them on a Saturday.
The BBC have been doing cats, in a three part documentary, and the papers are all over it.
It turns out that with us, cats are cats. Then they go outdoors and become lions. They get on better with us than they do with each other. They have evolved to manipulate us into feeding and sheltering them.
With the arrival of the internet, the evolution of cats has entered a new and more intense phase.
LATER: Although guide lions probably wouldn't work, here's a 2012 story about a guide cat, who guides a dog.
SUNDAY: I was back there yesterday, and that bit of yellow writing wasn't there when I first photoed this guide dog lion:
And they have also sorted out that strap around the lion's front.
More about what is going on here, here.
Last Saturday the weather was vile, in the morning. But, trusting as I always do in the excellence of Britain's short term weather forecasts (see in particular the final comment there), I prepared myself for a late afternoon expedition with my camera, confident that sunshine would be abundant. Exactly as forecast, it was.
I took many other photos of photographers besides those I took, during that same expedition, of the photographer who took photos of Gramex CDs, including, in particular, these, of bag ladies taking photographs:
Well, not really bag ladies. More ladies also carrying big bags. All three are using the same technique for carrying their various bags, namely putting their entire arms through the bit which would normally only be clutched by a hand. If you think about it, this technique only works when you are pointing your arm upwards. Point your arm downwards and the bag doesn't stay put. This means you only carry your bag like this when you are taking photos. Which makes this a classic item of Digital Photographer Behaviour, alongside such things as the Waving About of the Fifth Finger (to avoid it finding its way into the picture (as demonstrated by the lady with the next bag)).
Click on any of the squares, and you will get to the exact same square only bigger. These pictures have been thus cropped in order to avoid showing the faces of people standing nearby, in ways that would be easily recognisable, either by people or by machines.
Yes, there I was, relaxing in one of the big old armchairs that Mr Gramex reckons have made him so much money over the years, and this guy shows up at the door wanting to photo the CDs.
Mr Gramex has no objection, so, he does. And I photo him. This is what this looked like:
I thought I was the only one who did things like photo CDs in CD shops. Why was he doing this? He was evasive. My guess is some kind of project photoing lots of different stuff in lots of different London shops. Or, maybe wherever he goes, in life, he photos stuff in shops, the way I photo photographers. He said he was from Turkey.
Mr Gramex was very keen that Mr Turkey should also go outside and photo the window display, which he did. Even if he actually cared nothing for this window display the marginal cost of digital photography is zero and if that was how to keep in with Mr Gramex, fine, he'd do it. Which is when I took the photo on the right. Click on that photo, and, in the event that you care at all, you can see me photoing, reflected in the shop window, bottom right.
The bike in the middle picture belongs to Mr Gramex. As you can see from the reviews here, Gramex does not suit everyone. But it suits the people it suits very well.
As revealed in this earlier posting, I recently visited Tate Ancient, which is only a walk away from where I live. I should go there more often.
One of the big reasons being that it is a wonderful place, not just to learn about Art and all that kind of stuff, but to photograph photographers. All who frequent this blog know that photographing photographers is an obsession of mine.
Photographers like these two:
The blue-haired lady on the right was photoing the sculpture that can be seen more clearly, behind the man on the left.
Note that neither of the cameras seen in action here are of the old school and conventional sort. No, they are iCameras. There was a lot of this going on, not just picture making, but note taking.


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The Delhi Police will soon file a supplementary charge sheet in the alleged conspiracy hatched to access the phone call-detail records of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley once the forensic reports on the computers, laptops and mobile phones seized from the four accused are made available to the investigating agency.
"The communication devices have been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory to retrieve the data erased by the accused persons to evade detection. We have reasons to believe that the data in question would help us dig deeper into the conspiracy. Once the next phase of investigations is completed, we will be in a position to file a supplementary charge sheet in the case," said a senior police officer.
Police sources said they have zeroed in on one person on suspicion of him having assigned the task of accessing Mr. Jaitley's call-detail records to private detective Anurag Singh, who was also an accused in the Amar Singh phone-tapping case in 2005. "We have identified one such person. However, we can initiate legal action against this person only when he we have concrete evidence against him. The CFSL has the wherewithal to retrieve the data deleted from the computer systems of the accused and the data may help us gather solid evidence in this regard," said the officer.
Apart from the computer data, the police are also awaiting information from one of the e-mail service providers on the communications made between Anurag Singh, his assistant Nitish Singh, accused Neeraj Nayar and Constable Arvind Dabas. Investigations have revealed that the constable had allegedly helped Anurag Singh access 30 CDRs through unauthorised use of the e-mail account of Assistant Commissioner of Police (Operations), New Delhi. He would allegedly pass on the information to Neeraj, who would forward it to Nitish for further sharing it with Anurag Singh.
Through his computer records, the police have so far learnt that Anurag Singh had allegedly obtained 52 CDRs in the recent past. The evidence obtained thus far has indicated that the private detective had plans to use the CDRs to create contacts which could help him escape charges in the Amar Singh phone tapping case. However, the larger motive behind gaining access to Mr. Jaitley's CDR might get unravelled once the erased computer data is retrieved and studied, the officer added.


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A new era in animated storytelling begins on 9.9.09. Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) join forces to produce wunderkind director Shane Acker's distinctively original and thrilling tale. 9 stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer and Crispin Glover and features the music of Danny Elfman.
When 9 (The Lord of the Ring's Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.
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Genre: Drama
Rating: R
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Genre: Comedy
Rating: Not Rated
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- With four players selected in last weekend's NFL draft, the Florida Gators have now had a total of 322 players picked by current NFL franchises. UF has long been one of the most talent-rich pipelines to the pros but didn't mak...Blog | May 12, 2014
NFL draft preview: Florida GatorsJeff Barlis
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- An NFL draft with no Florida Gators picked in the first round has become a pretty rare occurrence, but that's exactly what most are expecting on Thursday night. UF has been one of the most consistent talent pipelines in the pa...Blog | May 08, 2014
Unheralded prospects who've shined at UFDerek Tyson
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- This week, GatorNation writer Mike DiRocco, SEC blogger Edward Aschoff and former Florida and NFL offensive tackle Mike Pearson drafted their all-time Florida Gators football team. There were several players chosen in the draft w...Blog | July 11, 2013
Projecting Florida's next draft classMichael DiRocco
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The 2013 NFL draft was certainly a good one for the Florida Gators, especially after the poor showing in the prior year, in which only two Gators were drafted. This year, Florida had eight taken between Thursday and Saturday. Tha...Blog | April 29, 2013
A look at the Florida Gators who will be picked in the NFL draftMichael DiRocco
Predicting where Florida's draft-eligible players will be selected on what should be a banner NFL draft for the Gators.Story | Conversation | April 23, 2013
Jelani Jenkins recovered foot injury in time for Florida Gators p...Michael DiRocco
Linebacker Jelani Jenkins' 40-yard-dash time at Florida's pro day wasn't as important as showing he has recovered from a broken bone in his right foot.Story | Conversation | March 12, 2013
Kelvin Taylor Marcell Harris follow in fathers' Florida Gators fo...Michael DiRocco
Florida has a long legacy of father-son legacies. Kelvin Taylor, son of all-time great Fred Taylor and Marcell Harris, son of former reserve Mike Harris are the latest.Story | Conversation | February 28, 2013
How Florida Gators prospects fared at scouting combineMichael DiRocco
A look at how the 10 former Florida Gators fared at the NFL scouting combine leading into the 2013 NFL draft.Story | Conversation | February 26, 2013
DBs from SEC blanket combineMichael DiRocco
Several of RecruitingNation's SEC sites took a look this week at the players headed to the NFL combine, which begins today in Indianapolis, and other predraft camps. Click here to read the entire predraft series. Today: Defensive backs and special te...Blog | February 22, 2013
SEC's DLs, LBs strong at combineMichael DiRocco
Several of RecruitingNation's SEC sites will look this week at the players headed to the NFL combine, which begins Friday in Indianapolis, and other predraft camps. Today: Defensive linemen and linebackers. Florida Gators The heart of the Gator...Blog | February 21, 2013
OLs from SEC can thrive at combineMichael DiRocco
Several of RecruitingNation's SEC sites will look this week at the players headed to the NFL combine, which begins Friday in Indianapolis, and other predraft camps. Today: Offensive linemen. Florida Gators The Gators are represented by a player...Blog | February 20, 2013
Could CB Vernon Hargreaves III start for the Florida Gators?Michael DiRocco
The Gators' hopes are high for incoming true freshman Vernon Hargreaves III. Florida has produced many NFL defensive backs in recent years, and Hargreaves' talent could surpass them all.Story | Conversation | February 13, 2013
Florida Gators receivers recruits need immediate contributorsMichael DiRocco
Florida signed five receivers in one class twice since 1997. Neither time, however, did anyone make much of an impact as a freshman. And only three developed into playmakers for the Gators.Story | Conversation | February 11, 2013
Florida Gators will rely on Dominique Easley on defensive lineMichael DiRocco
Dominique Easley came on at defensive end late in 2012 for the Gators, but after losing both starters at defensive tackle, Florida might need Easley to move back inside.Story | Conversation | February 03, 2013
Florida Gators have great needs for freshmen to fill in 2013Michael DiRocco
The Gators need several freshmen to make instant impacts in 2013, but Florida's recent history shows that it's rare for even three freshmen to do so.Story | Conversation | January 31, 2013
Identifying potential Florida Gators playmakers for 2013Michael DiRocco
Florida has a lot of holes to fill on its 2013 depth chart. Michael DiRocco looks at a handful of players who could emerge as key contributors.Story | Conversation | January 14, 2013


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Lufkin needs Parent and Student feedback on our fall events. Please take a couple of minutes to complete the appropriate survey.
Fall Events Survey
Book Fair Contest!
Design a fairy tale book cover with a medieval times theme. Entries will be judged by the book title and illustration.
To: Parents of Identified AIG students
What is it?: Lufkin AIG Program Information sessions
When: 6th grade: 7:45 to 8:15 AM on Wednesday, December 3rd *or Tuesday, December 9th from 5:30 to 6 PM
When: 7th/8th grade: 7:45 to 8:15 AM on Tuesday, December 9th *or Thursday, January 8th from 6:10 to 6:40 PM
……..how AIG students are served in the classroom
……..how you can help your AIG student reach his/her potential
……..about AIG paperwork (DEP's, Annual Review)
Canned Food Drive & Current Totals
National Junior Honor Society, also known as NJHS will be hosting and collecting can food for the local food shelter during the months of November and December as a community service project.
Each individual Lufkin student can bring in can food items to help those in our community. The number of items will be recorded by team. The total number of cans and dry food items will be divided by the number of students enrolled in that grade and track. The team with the highest unit rate per student will be announced as a "Incredible Community Service TEAM". The winning Team prize will be a session to make Nano Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream with SMILE Camp/NCSU Engineering Students and Staff .
Please have students turn in food items to their core teachers. The number of items, the grade and track will be recorded when picked up by the NJHS committee.
Please consider providing for families who may be in need especially during the fall and holiday seasons.
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Congrats to our Teacher of the Year
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Sneak Peak: On Wednesday, November 19th, the Lufkin Road Middle School Annual Snowflake Tree Project will be ready for those individuals who are looking to "adopt" a LRMS student for the holidays. Snowflakes with students' wish lists, interests, and clothing sizes, will be hanging from our Snowflake Tree. The Tree will be outside the main office lobby during the evening of the Lufkin Band Concert, so that attendees of the concert can choose a Snowflake hanging from its branches. The Tree's permanent Holiday Home is inside the office next to the front desk. We are asking to have all the gifts, either wrapped or unwrapped and clearly marked with the Snowflake Number, brought to the school no later than December 9th. The gifts will be delivered or picked up December 10th – 12th.
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In an age of expanding national security powers, increasing surveillance state, and rolled-back civil liberties protections, Americans' perception of their own personal freedoms is plummeting, according to the annual ranking by the Legatum Institute in London. In Washington D.C. this week to...
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Calling out one of the world's richest families for perpetuating global inequality while reaping the benefits, Walmart workers in more than ten different countries are uniting on Wednesday in a global day of action for decent wages and respect at work. With coordinated demonstrations planned in...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 12:15pm
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Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:30am
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 4:15pm
Palm Oil Development Fueling Demise of Biodiversity 'Crown Jewel': Report
Indonesia's Leuser Ecosystem, one of the most "biodiverse ecosystems ever documented by science," is facing imminent threat from industrial development, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The Leuser Ecosystem, located on the island of Sumatra,...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 2:00pm
With Day of Action, Hundred Thousand Nurses Declare: 'Our Safety is Not Negotiable'
With vigils, rallies, and strikes, 100,000 registered nurses across the country on Wednesday are voicing their growing frustration with what they see as a lack of protections for health care workers risking their lives on the front lines of the Ebola epidemic and other health crises. "The lack of...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 11:30am
Indicating Split, FCC Head Declares 'Independence' from Obama's Net Neutrality Stance
The Obama-appointed chief of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has signaled that he will not likely back the president's recent stand on the issue of net neutrality, telling a group of Internet executives that, despite Obama's call to reclassify the Internet as a public utility, he is an...
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Monday, November 10, 2014 - 12:30pm
Sanders Calls for Voting Holiday to 'Fix' Failed Democracy
Responding to the "disgraceful" voter turnout for last week's midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that the way to "fix" American democracy is for Election Day to be established as a national holiday. "Can we be satisfied with a 'democracy' when more than...
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Monday, November 10, 2014 - 11:00am
In Response to 'Unprecedented' Public Outcry, Obama Goes Big on Net Neutrality
Responding to the call of millions of Americans and years of grassroots campaigning, President Obama on Monday took what net neutrality proponents called a "major step" towards the protection of the Internet by issuing a statement calling for the safeguarding of "one of the most significant...
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