Slide show url

This links connects to the full screen slide show:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bslavin/sets/72157603864270989/show/

This code embeds the slide show into the web page (but it runs smaller).

Reviving blog as place to demonstrate pipes

Hi Bloggi,

I revived my blog so that I could show you the results of Yahoo Pipes.



I created two new, but very simple pipes: The one above is the simplest of all possible pipes.

After you click on "Create a Pipe", under sources look for drag the source "Google Base" on to the canvas. I directed it to find anything with the key word: Dusseldorf. I connected the source to the output with my mouse and saved it. I clicked on "run pipe", saw how it would look, and did the "get a badge" to get the content my blog.

I created a pipe which I installed as a widget to the right: this was a simple pipe also.
a. For the source I used "Fetch Feed" and used the NYT European feed: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Europe.xml
b. Under "operators", I pulled out filter and filtered this to include articles where Berlin is mentioned only.
c. I connected to the output and finished it as described in the first pipe.

Five Things

Abeyance

I am suspending my work on this blog for the time being.

Ray Bradbury

Was reading Yestermorrow, a collection of essays by Ray Bradbury. Was surprised that he was such good friends with Bernard Berenson.

Music

Listening to Great Courses CD's How the Listen to and Understand Great Music with lecturer Robert Greenberg.

Flickr Friends from Russia

It's a good day to visit Flickr friends, especially Sergey Yeliseev Today I'm looking at his finches.

Books and podcasts

I read Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Louise Hall Tharpe. She wasn't just a collector of things, but of people and experiences.

Listened to podcast from BBC on Deep into the Rubbish with Cairo's Zabbaleen. Listen here. About the 60,000 Coptic Christians in Cairo who collect, sort and recycle rubbish.

Social Networking and Silly Poetry

It was in June of last year that I attended the American Library Association conference in Washington D.C. when I first heard about all the 2.0 connectedness that has so absorbed me since that time. Anyway, here I am in April of the following year sharing two silly poems that I wrote as part of a weather word of the week contest on New England Cable News. Matt Noyes, the weatherman, has read both entries on the air:

Here's the poem for the weather word "befog" to be read as a rap poem or sung as a rap song.

Be fair or foul, I don’t want guessin’
Reckon I should tune in NECN
Where Matt he tells us what’s to be
I know the Noyes man won’t befog me

Here's the poem for the weather word of the week: "presentiment"

Mackerel sky and wispy clouds
Moving low and swift
These are my presentiments
Of barometric shift.

Going Out

Going to Callahan State Park to restore my soul.