Hacks and experiments with cultural heritage content, from James Morley
I’ve just installed two WordPress Plugins to test out automated tagging systems. I’m also really interested in automated geotagging, but not sure if that’s available. For example, if I say that this post is about London, does it add lat long tags? Could these be used to create a map? Read more …
I was recently prompted to pay a long overdue visit to the Horniman Museum, round in Forest Hill, south east London. So last Sunday morning Oliver and I set off for the day. Wow, it had changed incredibly since my last visit, back in the days when I was working Read more …
It turned out to be a bit breezy in london yesterday. A driver was killed by falling tree, Kew Gardens shut to the public over safety fears, and bicycle journeys were taking either half the time or five times as long, depending on which way you were travelling. By coincidence Read more …
I bought a newspaper for the first time in ages yesterday, an early edition of the London Evening Standard, on my way back from finishing the Christmas shopping. I was struck by the way the stories were arranged, and am left asking myself this question: why is it that all Read more …
Drama hit the tranquility of west London last night when Fire sparked overnight evacuation in South Ealing, just down the road from me. The immediate and real drama was for those in the vicinity, including a few friends of ours, who faced a sudden evacuation in the middle of the Read more …
Nice to see such a high profile source as the Guardian (OK, so it’s the East London and West Essex flavour of the same name) recognising the value of allotments. I for one can vouch that I have never seen so many types of snail and slug as there were Read more …