Noone in the house was awake before 11.30. We walked out to the Culinary Museum. The adult charge is $8, but the student on the desk put me through as a child ($2). We caught a bus back to town to avoid exhaustion and had a [...]
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Providence
Posted by dkendon on November 8, 2011
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KL Day 3
I decided to go through all the museums. They are helpfully clustered around the Lake Gardens area. On the way I saw the National Mosque. Then I went to the Islamic Arts Museum. Entry was RM12. It was large, covering architecture, calligraphy, pottery, metalwork, glasswork, science, korans, dress weaponry and other stuff The tone is [...]
Posted by dkendon on June 28, 2011
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History Tour: Tauranga
Possessed by a need to get out of Auckland I took a week-long trip to Tauranga in the holidays. Unfortunately Zadok was playing up and I could hear the CV joints as soon as I crossed the Bombay Hills. My first stop was Waihi. Here you can see the old pump house (above) and the [...]
Posted by dkendon on October 25, 2009
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Many Eyes
Here’s an interesting way of visualising data – Many Eyes from IBM. You can upload data and produce graphs in all kinds of different forms – beats the hell out of Excel. There are the usual graphs and also other ways of representing texts, like word clouds/wordles. These make more common words larger, so it’s [...]
Posted by dkendon on December 25, 2008
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