October 2004 – Page 18 – Thomas Hawk Digital Connection

October 2, 2004

October Photoblog

Cake and Ice Cream

Lichtenstein’s at the MOMA. Too bad I can’t bring my camera in the MOMA. Looks like I’ll be missing that exhibition.

Club Tac, Crocket, California.

Staring at the Sun

Locked Out

Matches

Seattle Was Another Girl Who Left Her Mark Upon the Map

Palace Hotel, Late Afternoon

The Chancery Building

JKLMN

Miles

SFPD

A taxi driver is questioned after an accident with a bicyclist at the corner of First and Market.

Falling Numbers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank

Simple Thoughts on Market Street

Jesus Christ is the Answer

Six Parnasus

Bay Bridge Sunrise

Bay Bridge Sunrise, #2

Moon Over the Bay Bridge

Downtown San Francisco, Early Evening

C and H Sugar Refinery, Crocket, California

The Big Giant Bra Ball is for Sale, Crocket, California

Rainy Morning, San Francisco Ferry Building

Flying Away From You

Clouds Outside

Smiley Face

Loving the Obstacle

For Every Generation There’s a Gap

The Easily Forgotten

San Francisco Municipal Railway

Six Forty Five

Colors and Shapes

Lip Service

Bridge

Strike

Diverging Paths

Vincenzo is a wine and food tasting held each year in San Rafael that benefits the St. Vincent’s School for Boys — a boys home for troubled youth. Every year it is beautiful and a wonderful day of wine tasting and great food. I’ve been going for the past few years and had the opportunity once again last Sunday. If you can make it in 2005 it’s definately worth checking out.

St. Vincent’s

Vincenzo 2004… More for Kids

Bay Bridge, 2005

Six Thirty, Monday Morning

Empty Ferry Building

Late Night Bus

Please Don’t Touch the Pig Head, He’s Been Sold

Lights Are Changing

Central Park at Night from the Le Parker Meridian

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October 1, 2004

Wired 12.10: Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye.

Wired 12.10: Point. Shoot. Kiss It Good-Bye. A fantastic story in Wired magazine that identifies the current problems and issues around metatagging digital images. As my collection at present has grown to over 40,000 .jpg images I’ve been increasingly concerned about the best way to tag and organize these images for search.

The other problem is that I’m not sure of an easy way to do meta data search using Windows XP as it currently stands. Hopefully Longhorn will produce more ways to search metadata at much faster speeds and easy and convenient ways to add and manage the meta data process.

Equally problematic is all of the scanning I’ve done of old family photographs. Identifying the individuals, dates, places has not been easy and as the family gets older and people die much of this rich history will be lost.

Setting up some kind of easy way to update and correctly archive and annotate family photographs is another area that I’m really interested in.

October 1, 2004

Wired News: Solution for Slashdot Effect?

Wired News: Solution for Slashdot Effect? I’ve had two links to my site on Slashdot in the past. On the first one I received about 3000 visits and on the second I received about 8,000 visits. Certainly this traffic was not unmanageable and so I wonder how necessary this solution really is? I’d be interested in hearing from others about their experiences and level of traffic when being posted to Slashdot and if the traffic was a problem. I wonder what the average number of hits a site receives when it is Slashdotted?

October 1, 2004