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2007-12-07

Glimpsing Nigeria's digital lifeline

"The laptop has brought a great impact to our children," she said. "It is easier to give notes and assignments and they [the children] learn faster."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115348.stm


Google Releases Chart Image Generator

Google released a chart generator service they are calling the Google Chart API. Usage is quite straightforward: you link to an image in the form of a parameterized URL: ...


http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:90,49&chs=350x150&chl=Foo|Bar

... and Google returns a PNG graphic containing the chart.

From: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-06-n80.html
See also:

Developer's guide: http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

And:

Percentage of chart which looks like Pac-Man: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chd=t:25,75&chs=300x100&chl=Does+not+look+like+Pac-Man%7CLooks+like+Pac-Man&chtt=Percentage+of+chart+which+looks+like+Pac-Man

jan von holleben - dreams of flying

http://www.janvonholleben.com/dreams_of_flying.php?n=8

Jan von Holleben spends his time between Berlin, London and his homeland in South West Germany where he produces the majority of his photography.

"Little House on the Freeway"

"The obsession has been going on for months. I wanted an RV! I shopped, I bought it. The 1995 Itasca Spirit."

http://cwangmo.blogspot.com/