Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
A press release from the Forestry Commission claims that Scotland remains home to britain’s tallest tree as dughall mor reaches new heights. It seems that this particular douglas fir, whose name in Gaelic means big dark stranger, was claimed to have been overtaken by a tree in Wales, but that Read more …
I do like my gadgets but I’m not a label freak, so the idea of some trendy slick phone with polished aluminium and a name that sounds like it’s the result of a six-week brainstorming session by a bunch of marketing execs just doesn’t appeal. I was due an upgrade Read more …
I embarked on a potentially fraught task on Sunday, not without a little trepidation. I’d been doing some macro photography and noticed that my sensor had a family of dust specks, small and large, littered across the surface. In fact when I looked closer it was more like the population Read more …
Ice crystals on a car More winter pictures….
I have been spending what spare time I can get trying to upgrade and enhance the map features in the new Where in the world? section. There’s now a map of post locations (i.e. the locations mentioned in the posts, not which computer I was sitting at when I wrote Read more …
I have just launched a new experimental feature, a map showing all the locations for which I have made posts. You can find it, with just a sample set of data at the moment, at Where in the world?. I am now looking at ways of integrating this with data Read more …