haven’t done a timelapse in a while! here’s one i did yesterday from my office window. i like it. i hate the reflection. it’s for about 4.5 hours.

so as i’ve previously posted…i want get more into visualizations.  i am completely new at it.  so i thought throwing together an infographic would be a good start.  i recently came back from an india trip where i collected a bunch of “info”.  i decided to give a stab at creating one:

i’m not too impressed with it, but i sure learned a lot already.

so recently i’ve been really wanting to try out some visualization techniques. different ways to effectively display data. making data less complicated. something i’ve always been interested in. there’s some really cool stuff out there and i want to give it a shot. from straight up infographs to actionscripts to complex interactive flash. this was partially the reason i redid clunkity. so now i have a subdomain dedicated to this: vis.clunkity.com. nothing there right now, but hopefully there will be soon!

all this swine flu news is really testing drudgington post.  and for once, a different word is on top, besides “obama”: “flu”!  at least in the 24 hours category.  its also nice to see common news across drudge report and huffington post.  we get more black words!

just saw a post on techcrunch about a site called FairSpin.  it’s a site that categorizes political bias within the news.  seems like an interesting concept.  i’m only posting this because it’s somewhat related to drudgington post.  trying to contrast headlines and words from opposite ends of the spectrum.  however, FairSpin seems a bit more complicated.  it’s all based on user input, which i feel would be hard to maintain.  being completely based on users.  i’ll keep an eye on the site.

i hate it.  cross browser compatibility is the worst part of web development.  i can’t believe people still use ie6 so much.  why do i care.

finally got a “front page” up for clunkity.com.  just links to different sections of the site instead of just forwarding to this blog.  not sure how it will effect the traffic flow.  but i was worried my photoblog was getting lost.  plus i’m hoping for some new additions coming soon…

finally. going through all my india pictures took a heck of a lot longer than i expected.  even though i took a lot less pictures than i expected.  it’s tough to constantly try to take decent pictures for three weeks straight.  too much effort.  it’s also interesting taking pictures for a long period of time without actually looking at them on a monitor.  something could have been screwed up and you wouldn’t have known, screwing up all the rest of your pictures.  usually you get to see what you’ve done and then adapt.  anyways i tried to narrow it down as much as possible. i hate swamping people with a ton of pictures.  i think i ended up selecting 10% of my pictures which isn’t too bad. by the way, sometimes i hate flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/clunkity/collections/72157616737206816/

i forgot how much of a mess this blog is. lots of things that need to be touched up. i need to redo navigation. i need to redo the comment form. it’s freaking ugly. clicking tags gives garbage. this site is barely functional. what a mess.

oh yea! so i originally got this book in college. the red queen. i’ve always picked it up at random times and read a little here and there. it was obviously good enough for me to keep coming back to it. i’ve restarted reading it a couple times. but i’ve never finished it. anyways, during the india trip i finally finished it front to back! hizzah! it look like…at least 3 years. probably more. anyways. it’s an awesome book and a definitely recommend it. one of the better written nonfictions. i found fountainhead in india, so i started reading that. its okay so far.