How Can I Help?

How can we help we asked?

Nikon D300, Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 @ ISO 200, 200mm f2.8, 1/100 sec

Is this illustration below of Andrea in the back yard cheerfully hanging out the laundry to dry? When asked if I could possibly help by doing this job, I said "sure!" but the next image made me wonder how long has it been since anyone did this at our house?

(Below) The one lonely peg.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm f2.8 @ ISO 200, f3.0, 1/250 sec
I think I will go fishing instead.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm f2.8 @ ISO 200, f3.0, 1/100 se

Hermione thinks that's a great idea.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 @ ISO 200, 200mm, f8.0, 1/80 sec

More Christmas Lights

December, don't you love it . . .

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2.0, 1/30sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2.0, 1/30 sec

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2.0, 1/3 sec

Walking, Chinese Food and Italian Beer

While walking Hermione sunday night we decided to get Chinese Take Away for dinner. This is one out our locals.

When we got it home Andrea came out of the basement with some cold Peroni's but Hermione didn't want hers, just a drink of water was fine, so I drank hers.

Mmm steamed dim Sims and beer.

Spiced honey chicken, dry fried pork and fried rice and beer.

Beer - Peroni Beer

Gladiola, Lily or something else?

While taking Hermione for a walk and a small diversion to get half a dozen Peroni's we came across this flower (see below). I think its a Galdiola or a lily. Gladiolas are also commonly called Sword Lily, grow quite tall and are easy to grow and like to be in full sun and in well drained soil. Is this one?

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2.0, 1/250 sec

Christmas Lights

Out looking for this years Christmas lights to photograph I grabbed this shot of an almost full moon over a bay near my house.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 800, f2.5, 1/13 sec (Hand Held)

The lights are a little slow coming out this year or I'm a bit early. Anyway here is an abstract view of some Chrissy lights near home.

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 800, f2.0, 1/200 sec

Lifestreaming and your Federated Identity

Lifestreaming is a term that was coined by Eric Freeman and David Gelernter at Yale University in the mid-1990s to describe "...a time ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of your electronic life, every document you create and every document other people send you is stored in your lifestream." The oldest posts or the tail of your stream contains documents from the past and more recent documents are toward the present. These are atifacts such as electronic mail, pictures, movies, voice mail, reminders, calendar items, to do lists etc. Today most of us have information scattered all around the internet, or now known by its metaphor as 'the cloud'.

How do you manage your identity and logins to all these resources? You have many more than you may think. Your bank, insurers, travel company, the government, online stores etc and thats not to mention life streaming services like:

Bebo - Delicious - Digg - Diigo - Facbook - Flickr - LinkedIn - Orkut - Twitter - Tumblr - Blogger - fblike - Google - Yahoo - FriendFeed - Youtube - Last.fm - Plazes

What we all have now is a federated identity or the virtual reunion, or assembled identity and this information is stored across multiple distinct identity management systems. Sometimes these are linked together by a common token, usually a user name if you use a common one for multiple systems or services. You are authenticated across multiple systems or even organisations. Your identity is distributed and accessible.

Not everyone has a constant flow of their recorded information posted both online and offline and its a mistake to think about this by limiting the concept your digital life as only a sum of the feeds you publish. Flickr and Youtube are ways of displaying your life in the offline world that may be there forever.