About the Streams

I like to organize various aspects of my life in terms of streams of information. Please contact me, if you have any questions or comments.

Textstream

My text streams basically contain links with a small amount of annotation to things I found interesting. Sometimes I excerpt a relevant bit of the text. I don't think this needs much explaining. Other than it's mostly my way of organizing lots of tidbits and is not meant to be that comprehensible.

Image streams

These are a variety of images that I've found amusing. They images come from a variety of sources.

Photostream

Some of them are original creations -- i.e. all the images on my photostream blog and in lots of my (semi-private) photo galleries. Mostly, all of these images are of inanimate objects or myself . "Why such a selection?" you might ask. Basically I do not like putting pictures of people on the web without explicit permission from them. I find the idea of a person's picture or person's image ending up on the web and then being freely traded and moved around without their permission is a bit distasteful. I do have photo galleries of course of my friends and family, but these are keep under password protection. I only put up photos of myself because obviously I can consent to their posting and lot of interesting objects of inanimate things which really don't care about being posted on the web. In particular, I find the practice of people innocently taking someone's picture at an informal setting and then that person finding that picture has been put up on the web for all to see very disconcerting. I have numerous times had the situation of being in a rather unpresentable state and then found out that someone took a picture of me and posted it on the web. This has also happened to a number of colleagues of mine. (They have even been shocked to find pictures of themselves on the beach, clad rather scantily in swimsuits!)

Clipstream

My scrapbook blog and some of "fun" galleries contains various iconified images that I've found. Theses are clipped and scanned from various magazines (a rough citation is usually given) or just cached from various on-line sources. Usually the picture is significantly reduced to an icon like size for the purpose of display. In a sense it's quoted very much in the way Google will provide a thumbnail when you do a search. Some of these clippings have been significantly modified or processed to create various effects -- e.g. marked up in mashups. My clipstream is purely for my amusement (forming a kind of diary) and is not intended to be used in a commercial fashion. I can take down any of images upon request.