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December 2004 news

White Christmas photos posted 26 Dec 2004 by Dan Karran [permalink] Hopefully you are all still enjoying the remains of the turkey. Because I've eaten so much over the past few days I'm not able to walk easily so I've taken the time to add some new photos to the website. As you probably gathered from my Christmas Day news posting, we had a white Christmas here in the Isle of Man this year, so I've put some photos from the day into my South Barrule photo gallery. There are also some great White Christmas photos on the other Isle of Man photo websites: Manx Scenes Manxland Bradda.com It's great to see how many local photo sites are around now, and they always show such beautiful pictures. The weekend before coming back to the Isle of Man for Christmas, I visited Bath for a few days with my friends. We didn't have the nicest weather but luckily most of the Roman Baths are covered, protecting us from the rain. I have put some photos from the Roman Baths into a new Bath photo gallery but hope to go back in the near future to explore the place in better weather...

Merry Christmas from the Isle of Man posted 25 Dec 2004 by Dan Karran [permalink] Merry Christmas from the Isle of Man! Happy Christmas from a snowy Isle of Man. I hope you have a great festive period and don't over indulge in the turkey!

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas posted 7 Dec 2004 by Dan Karran [permalink] It's a month since I last posted a message to the site and it certainly feels like it's been a busy one! I currently have five pieces of coursework on the go - from mapping St Paul's Cathedral and the area around it in 3D, to working out how to put together a new GIS system, to analysing crime hotspots in London, to designing a computer program to calculate the area of polygons and even writing a social science essay. What a busy time! It's lucky that most of the projects are very interesting and are teaching me so many valuable practical skills. In my 'spare' time yesterday I added a little mapping feature to each of my photo galleries to show roughly where in the world the place is. It's only simple at the moment but I hope to be able to expand what it does and make the mapping more useful and interesting for users. Being able to create maps on the fly would be great to help users navigate around the galleries. I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while but never got around to it. When I found an article basically doing all the work for me, how could I not do it?