Detroit

Detroit, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Semidelinkification, Shirky-style

Nicholas Carr's Blog: Semidelinkification, Shirky-style:

But I did manage to read a sizable chunk of it before clicking the Instapaper 'Read Later' button (a terrific way to avoid reading long stuff without having to feel guilty about it). It was a solid piece, as you'd expect from Shirky, if marred a bit by an unappealing new-media elitism (apparently the great unwashed never made it past the sports pages). But what interests me at the moment is not the content of Shirky's post but its form, particularly the form of its linkage.

Luminous

Luminous, originally uploaded by justinknol.

"Shoot the Museum" tonight at the National Museum of Australia.

Lincoln

Lincoln, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Frosty kitchen window this morning

Kitchen Window ii, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Court in the Rain

Court in the Rain, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Granite Island Causeway

Granite Island Causeway, originally uploaded by justinknol.

What Makes A Volcano Explode?

What Makes A Volcano Explode?:

This morning at my front door...

This morning at my front door..., originally uploaded by justinknol.

I love Canberra's seasons...

Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island

Remarkable Rocks, KI, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Little Sahara, Kangaroo Island

Little Sahara, Kangaroo Island, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Remarkable Rocks, Kangaroo Island

Remarkable Rocks, KI, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Jetty, Kangaroo Island

Jetty, KI, originally uploaded by justinknol.

McLaren Vale Sunset

McLaren Vale Sunset, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Seppelt Mausoleum

Seppelt Mausoleum, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Chateau Yaldara

Chateau Yaldara, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Kangaroo Island Jetty

Jetty, KI, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Looking up at Oldham House, Kapunda

Looking up at Oldham House, Kapunda, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Cape Willoughby Lighthouse and Sky, Kangaroo Island

Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island

Cape Willoughby Lighthouse, Kangaroo Island, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Grosvenor Hotel, Adelaide

Grosvenor Hotel, Adelaide, originally uploaded by justinknol.

I've been away for two weeks to South Australia with Amanda - while the kids were overseas.

more photos over the next few days as i sort through them...

Hipstamatic Oven Gloves

Oven Gloves, originally uploaded by justinknol.

MarkLogic CEO on what's next for FAST

Dave Kellog, CEO of Mark Logic says the real question for FAST customers is: “what next?”

Microsoft / Fast Drops Linux and Unix Support. Should You Turn to MarkLogic As A Replacement? | Kellblog

Microsoft confirms FAST Search on Linux and UNIX is DEAD

FAST ESP on non-Windows platforms was doomed from the moment Microsoft acquired FAST. The blog entry Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog : Innovation on Linux and UNIX confirms it:

With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX.

Five years 'mainstream' support for FAST ESP 5.3 and then five more years of 'extended' support.

UK Government ICT Strategy 2010-2020

The new UK Government ICT Strategy:

The need to transform public services and to fully exploit ICT to achieve this is accelerating. To meet increasing demand within this complex technology arena, the UK public sector has built an ICT infrastructure that in many instances duplicates solutions across different areas of Government. The ICT strategy will ensure that the infrastructure will go through a process of standardisation and simplification based on the premise of a common infrastructure designed to enable local delivery suited to local needs. Delivery will increasingly be through partnerships between the public, private and third sectors and the strategy enables greater interoperability to underpin this model. The strategy applies to all of the UK Public Sector, whether Central Government, Local Government, Wider Public Sector or Devolved Administrations. It provides a common approach to ICT that maintains local accountability and control over implementation to meet unique delivery and business requirements."

There are fourteen strands to the strategy:

1. The Public Sector Network
2. The Government Cloud (G-Cloud)
3. Data Centres
4. Government Applications Store (G-AS)
5. Shared Services
6. Desktop Services
7. Architecture and Standards
8. Open Source, Open Standards, Reuse
9. Greening Government ICT
10. Information Security & Assurance
11. Professionalising IT enabled change
12. Reliable Project Delivery
13. Supply Management
14. International Alignment

RAAF Roulettes at the Australia Day Concert

Roulettes, originally uploaded by justinknol.

on Flickr - Reconciliation

Reconciliation One, originally uploaded by justinknol.

Christmas lunch.....

Christmas lunch....., originally uploaded by justinknol.

Five years, one week and one day on flickr

CSIRO roofline, originally uploaded by justinknol.

This is the first image I posted on flickr - December 13, 2004

:)

core twenty images

I've just made a new set of what I think are twenty core images, representing the last five years of my photography.

Here are links to the individual images:

1. roof and sky, 2. Phantom, 3. floriade two, 4. covered chair, 5. British Museum, 6. waiting 30 minutes, 7. boat deck, 8. guess, 9. a fearsome symmetry, 10. landscape, 11. 74" dome vii, 12. poles, apart, 13. southbank walk, 14. bike rack ii, 15. fence, more, 16. Untitled, 17. window and sky, 18. Put that thing back where it came from - iv, 19. DSS-43, 20. Tate Modern