UCU Strikes

My photos from last week's UCU strike action are available as a set and as a slideshow:

Flickr

Perceptive quote from the NY Times:

"No one questions Flickr’s appeal to photographers who post, admire and comment on a wealth of artistic images, many of which are magazine quality. Where Flickr is faltering is with people who want to store and share more mundane snapshots."

I guess Facebook is where people are increasingly turning for casual photo sharing.

United For Education

My photos from today's United For Education day of action are now on Flickr, as a set and as a slideshow:

Pilgrimage

Last week I at long last paid a visit to Bletchley Park, the centre of codebreaking efforts for the British during World War II and the birthplace of modern computing. The picture here shows the reconstructed Colossus Mk II, the world's first semi-programmable digital electronic computer, which helped to crack the Lorentz cipher used by the German High Command.

For a geek like me, standing in front of this as it whirred and clicked was a near-religious experience! The Bletchley Park huts are well worth a visit for anyone interested in cryptography or military history, and the existence of Colossus and The National Museum of Computing on site is the icing on the cake.

My photos of the day are available for viewing as a Flickr set or slideshow.

Leeds UCU Rally

Pictures from last week's Leeds UCU Rally:

Flickr fun

I'm a Flickr devotee, and was interested to discover their App Garden - a place where home-grown applications that use the Flickr API can be promoted.

One that particularly caught my eye is Command-Line Flickr - a retro, textual interface that allows you to browse photostreams and even render individual pictures as ASCII art! Strange but rather cool.

Here's the photo from yesterday's post, rendered in ASCII: