“… the incongruity of the festive atmosphere amidst a coup d’etat.”
Bangkok looks pretty relaxed so far. Thai tourists are not fleeing.
photo originally uploaded by Dan Caspersz.
Category: travel
“geotagging” photos in Flickr – update
Update:
The Jelbert GeoTagger device records the latitude and longitude and compass direction of every photo you take. …
GeoTagger Adds Positioning Info to Snapshots – Slashdot
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There is some cool stuff happening on that there internet.
I love all the map mash-ups.
For example, when I post a photo to my Flickr account, I can tag it with the exact location it was taken. It is automatically posted to my personal photo map of the world.
For example, here’s the map of 6 photos I took near the Mississippi River in St. Paul:
If you have plenty of extra time, you might want to play with these new mapping toys.
But working with photos in Flickr can be painfully slow and a bit buggy. A desktop client would be better.
I may wait until the GPS in my (future) camera does the job without me manually having to tag each picture.
FlickrBlog
Great shot – where’d you take that?
Gadling.com wonderful travel photos
This is my favourite photo source these days.
Clicking through to the source gets you to their Flickr photo stream.
source – photographer StrudelMonkey
how will you die?
Shouldn’t we spend more on reducing vehicle deaths? Less on hassling airline travellers?
According to this data, you are more likely to be killed by an American policeman than by a toothpaste-wielding foreign jihadist.
Flu, hernia, or police more likely to kill you than Al Qaeda – BoingBoing
no need for life-jackets on airplanes
Quoted from an Economist article:
“Your life-jacket can be found under your seat, but please do not remove it now. In fact, do not bother to look for it at all. In the event of a landing on water, an unprecedented miracle will have occurred, because in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is zero.”
cheap flights – UPDATE #2
I am often frustrated trying to find a good deal on a flight on-line.
Note: CheapTickets charges a $9 service fee while Yahoo is still free.
But I really like the (fairly) new Yahoo! site. It has a nice AJAX interface too.
Cheap Airfares on Yahoo! FareChaser.
UPDATE – Just booked a flight on CheapTickets.com — not quite as slick as the Yahoo site. But it still got the job done. Found the cheapest, most convenient fare comparing all competitors.
outdoor bloggers “meetup”
You know those oddball conventions you hear about? Freak gatherings. Pug dog owners, paranormal ghost busters, or atheists.
I am going to one.
I am forced to travel to Northern California to attend.
Needless to say, bloggers meetups get a LOT of coverage on the internet. I’ll be posting on my hiking blog.
Blogs for the outdoors have just taken off in the last few months. I expect I’ll be one of the founders of a huge annual event.
missed Burning Man … again
In 2005 I planned ahead to finally get to the world’s craziest festival.
But … maybe it’s too late to ride a bicycle nude as performance art. Everyone’s already done it.
My travel logistics to the middle of the desert were too challenging. And attending this anti-commercial spectacle is really expensive. I did not go.
But here are a few photos of 2006 for the armchair travellers like myself.
book – a decade of Burning Man photos
This may be the closest I ever get to the famous desert festival.
Barbara Traub’s new book Desert to Dream is an unprecedented photographic record of a decade of Burning Man celebrations. Contributions from filmmaker Les Blank, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey, Leonard Nimoy and beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti …
10 Years of Burning Man – photos – Wired magazine
If interested in the book for one of your alternative friends:
PEI hospitality
Jim and Lea Rand were my most excellent hosts in PEI.
I enjoyed fresh baking, ate surf and turf. We toasted marshmallows and poured Bailey’s into the melted centres. Mmmm.
The family has it’s own beach volleyball court and games were very competitive.
Jim, spiker right, has been running the gym in Charlottetown for 31 years. He’s 2 years retired from teaching and now can devote himself full-time to gym and home construction projects.
Lea is still working two jobs. : )
The club is planning their first ever trip to a Japanese gymnastics meet.
This was the last post on this travelogue. It’s back to Calgary after over 4 weeks on the road.
