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personal photos track days

Photo in SCCA SportsCar magazine

My first magazine photo

One of the photos I took of my dust covered Elise has been used in an SCCA RallyCross ad in the July Issue of SportsCar magazine. And no I do not RallyCross my Elise – the dirt was a result of my Reno-Fernley spin. It was taken with a Nokia N95 and looks remarkably good in a full page print advert (proof image here).

This happened a few weeks ago but I only just got around to blogging it 🙂

[tags]scca, ad, lotus, elise, dirt, rallycross, advertisement, sportscar, magazine, nokia, n95[/tags]… Read the rest

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mobile technology

Yahoo! Go: Now with GPS support

I just downloaded the latest version of Yahoo Go on my Nokia N95 and was blown away to find that it has GPS support for maps and navigation. I am on an roadtrip right now and will be use it for direction the rest of my trip. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that I have been using Nokia Maps (aka Smart2Go) for the past 10 days which should make for an interesting comparison – I’ll post a detailed comparison/review once I get home in about a week.… Read the rest

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research talk work

Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award

Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award JCDL 2007
Our paper titled “World Explorer: Visualizing Aggregate Data from Unstructured Text in Geo-Referenced Collections” just won the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award at JDCL 2007. A big thanks to my co-authors Shane Ahern, Mor Naaman and Jeannie Yang for all their help in both building the system and writing the paper – it was a great joint effort. You can read the paper, see the demo or look at my slides below.

Judith Bush has a report about my presentation as well.… Read the rest

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mashup personal work

Trip tracker

UPDATE: Since Yahoo! has shut down may of the services that Trip Tracker relied upon I have replaced the live links with some real example images that I captured over the years.

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Trip tracker is a quick hack that I created using the FireEagle location platform from Yahoo! Research Berkeley and is designed to convery a quick summary or what I’m doing during my summer holiday. The first part is a badge image (above) that shows you some quick summary about my current location. It shows you the following things

Location: A map tile of my location which zooms appropriately based on the accuracy of the available location.… Read the rest

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motorsport photos videos

CRASH!!!

This photo was taken by an SFF1 member moments after Robert Kubica’ high speed accident during todays Canadian Grand Prix – you can actually see his race boots sticking out of the remains of his BMW F107. It appears that Kubica hit the rear wheel of Jarno Trulli’ Toyota and was launched into the air before going headfirst into a wall. The car then bounced across the circuit flipping several times before hitting the opposite wall. Though no official figures have been released I would expect that he must have been doing at least 150 mph at the time of impact.… Read the rest