John McCain in Merrimack

McCain was in Merrimack, NH today and I took a bunch of photos at the event.

They are all licensed under the Attribution Creative Commons license.


John McCain in Merrimack, NH


John McCain @ VFW hall





A couple of Ron Paul supporters were outside holding signs

The only remarkable moment was during Q&A a young woman asked "I have just one question. Why are you in favor of amnesty for illegals?".

McCain: "I'm not."

woman: "I've been informed that you are."

McCain: "You have been poorly informed."

He then did go on to talk to his position on immigration -- securing the borders but also said that we should treat those here illegally well since we are all god's children.

(my paraphrasing)

The quiet before the storm

The quiet before the storm

Originally uploaded by marcn

Santa apparently visited our house last night.

Blogging @ 10

I heard on NPR that today was the 10th anniversary of the blog. Turns out that this nozell.com/blog just over half that old -- 5 years, 9 months, 12 days. Born on date: March 5th, 2002.

And I still have Jorn's blog in my RSS aggregator: Robot Wisdom and the more frequently updated Robot Wisdom auxiliary

Hillary Clinton in Nashua, NH

Hillary Clinton @ DWC

Originally uploaded by marcn

We attended the "Countdown to a New Beginning" campaign event for Hillary Clinton at Nashua's Daniel Webster College yesterday.

HP leaving NH

Yup, the office building known as ZKO and where I've spent the last 20 years working for DEC/Compaq/HP is no longer going to be where I park my butt during the day. I'll be heading down to Marlboro, MA a few days a week starting sometime in 2008.

Here is what the Nashua Telegraph has to say in their newsblog section: HP to close Nashua site. The news traveled fast -- their entry is dated 5:24pm today, just hours after the official announcement to employees.

Update: Wednesday full coverage in the Nashua Telegraph: HP to close Nashua site

I wonder when the new owners will take down the VMS-inspired Non-Paged Pool sign.

Barack & Michelle Obama with Oprah Winfrey in Manchester

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Originally uploaded by marcn

Spencer obtained press credentials for the big Obama/Oprah rally in Manchester. He'll write an article for the Merrimack High School newspaper, The Hawk.

Trevor's 9.8 on the Vault @ Yellow Jackets meet

Trevor's 9.8 on the Vault @ Yellow Jackets meet

Originally uploaded by marcn

Floor: 8.7 (1st )
Pommel: 8.2 (4th)
Rings: 8.5 (2nd)
Vault: 9.8 (1st)
PBars: 7.6 (3rd)
Hbars: 8.05 (4rd)
AA: 1st

My first photo with 5000+ views on Flickr

Hillary Clinton in Hampton, NH

Originally uploaded by marcn

This photo of Hillary Clinton taken at the Winnacunnet High School in Hampton NH is my most viewed on Flickr.com.

I've licensed that photo under a Creative Commons license and it has been used by NPR's website.

Check out the 16th & 17th seconds of this Hillary Ad

Spencer talking to Hillary while I look on.

Back from SF

Lombard Street


San Francisco Trolley Car

Extra Male Chromosome for sale (best offer) graffiti

The rest of my photos from Oracle OpenWorld 2007 (SF, CA)

Hillary Clinton files for the NH Primary today

Hillary Clinton files for NH Primary


Hillary Clinton


Hillary Clinton in Concord, NH


Vermin Supreme also registered for the NH Primary

LOL arrow'ed pumpkin

LOL arrow'ed pumpkin

Originally uploaded by marcn

Autumn in New England

Trees in Merrimack Last Rest Cemetery


Emma, Addy, Logan and Trevor walking to the lost town of Monson Center, NH


The commons at Monson Center, NH

See more about the forgotten town of Monson Center, NH on the Hollis town website

Speakers at NHDP Jefferson-Jackson Dinner w/ Senator Webb

NH 1st district US Representative Carol Shea-Porter (and my rep!)



NH 2nd district US Representative Paul Hodes



Senator Jim Webb of Virginia



See the rest of my photos here: NHDP Jefferson-Jackson Dinner 2007

Before the NH Jefferson-Jackson dinner

pre-jefferson-jackson-pano.jpg

Originally uploaded by marcn

Hillary and Obama had a large number of supporters and a somewhat smaller number for Edwards. Dodd had a large labor pre-event in the hotel.

Sports tips from the future

September 31, 2007

Originally uploaded by marcn

Check out the date on last Thursday's Nashua Telegraph -- September 31st, 2007.

Hot sports tips! Now if you can find a bookie taking bets for that day...

Bill & Hillary

Bill & Hillary

Originally uploaded by marcn

Trevor doing a Giant

Trevor learned how to do both a front and back giant on the high bar at USGTC this summer:

Too bad he broke his nose a few days later and is recovering from it being reset. Lets hope he doesn't forget how to do it...

John Edwards @ Merrimack High School

John Edwards @ Merrimack High School

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Thursday Morning 1

Thursday Morning 1

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Monday Sunrise 3

Monday Sunrise 3

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Photos of John McCain in Merrimack, NH

Asked a question about healthcare

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Since he was having a town hall meeting just up the street, I stopped in to take some photos.

Of the current Republican candidates, the US could do a lot worse.

Rudy's campaign runs out of gas in New Hampshire!

Rudy's campaign runs out of gas in New Hampshire!

Originally uploaded by marcn.

We just got back from the Merrimack, NH parade where we saw Rudy's car run out of gas.

Makes a great wallpaper

Makes a great wallpaper

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Rapture signs holding up well 15 years on

Every now and then I stop by and take a photo of these posters announcing the end of the world that happened on October 28, 1992.

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MoveOn.org event: Meet the Generals

Last night I went up to Manchester to this town hall meeting:

Retired Generals Robert Gard and Brigadier General John Johns are coming to Manchester on Thursday and they're going to speak out against President Bush's reckless policy in Iraq. This is a great opportunity to see these generals powerfully indict the current war plan—and talk about how we can responsibly exit. Former Maine Congressman Tom Andrews is hosting a town hall meeting with them to talk about what New Hampshire can do to help end the war and they need your help to drive the discussion.

We didn't stay for all the Q&A, but Marty ?? make a comment that if Kucinich got a respectable 20% or more showing in NH's primary, that it would have a huge impact on the political discussion of the three front runners.

USB to Serial Adapter for Ubuntu

I recently received an updated laptop at work -- a nice hp nc6400 notebook. Unlike the previous nc6000, this new on does not include a serial port which is problematic for the Garmin to serial cable I have. I ordered from CompUSA a USB to Serial Adapter by CablesToGo (model 26886) and it works great out of the box on Ubuntu/Feisty.

All I needed to change is the serial port to use, so:

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o kml,points=0,line_color=ff0000ff -F waypoints.kml
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyS0 -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx

becomes:

gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o kml,points=0,line_color=ff0000ff -F waypoints.kml
gpsbabel -t -i garmin -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F waypoints.gpx

FWIW, it uses the pl2303 kernel module.

Cool! NHPR.org is using Griffin's Creative Commons photo of Hillary Clinton

Cool! NHPR.org is using Griffin's Creative Commons photo of Hillary Clinton

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Today is Griffin's day to have a photo of his used under a Creative Commons License. This time by New Hampshire Public Radio.

www.nhpr.org/node/13131

Original photo: www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/528989796/

Cool! NPR.org is using my Creative Commons photo of Hillary Clinton

Cool! NPR.org is using my Creative Commons photo of Hillary Clinton

Originally uploaded by marcn.


I got this email today:

Hi marcn,

I'm the Web producer for NPR's 'News and Notes.' Just
wanted to drop you a line to let you know we used your
Creative Commons photo on our blog:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/newsandviews/2007/06/headlines_hillary_clinton_lead.html

Thanks!
Geoff Bennett

---

My original photo:

Fundraiser last night

Bill Clinton calling me out :-)




Click here for the all of my photos from the
Bill Clinton @ Hillary Fundraiser

Spencer and Griffin were put to work guarding the doorway and handing out Hillary Stickers.


Young helpers at the fundraiser

Hillary Clinton visits the Debate Party

Hillary Clinton visits the Debate Party

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Stylin' in a Hillary Clinton Tshirt

Stylin' in a Hillary Clinton Tshirt

Originally uploaded by marcn.

Emma is too young to realize this is a Marc Jacobs design...

Hello California

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Greater Grater Woods geocache replaced

This evening Griffin, Trevor and I replaced the Greater Grater Woods (GC10QMW) geocache that some kids trashed. It was the one near the north part of the Grater Woods property near some very large rocks -- it turns out that it is about 500ft from Beebe Lane. Last winter that area seemed so far and remote, but it is very close to a number of homes.

We were going to replace the camera in the Lesser Grater Woods cache, but now that we can't just walk across the frozen water, you have to go east around the beaver pond or just approach it from the MMS side. Maybe tomorrow evening.

I brought along my camera and GPS and took a bunch of photos that you can see via Google Maps.

Either click here to see it on Google's maps.google.com site.

(Click on some of the photo icons)

Or if you have the Google Earth (free for Windows/Mac/Linux) application installed, click here and it should run on your PC (and faster, more features).

There is a free open source application, gpicsync, for Windows/Linux that takes the GPS track info and matches it up with the timestamp of the photos and generates a file for Google Earth to use.

gpicsync on Ubuntu/Feisty

GPicSync is a very nice cross-platform tool to match up photos with GPS locations. However it requires a package that isn't included by default by Ubuntu/Feisty.

1. Download GPicSync from http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/

2. Unpack it: tar zxf Linux-GPicSync-0.91.tar.gz

3. Move to the directory it created: cd Linux-GPicSync-0.91

4. Set the GUI and command line versions of the program executable: chmod +x gpicsync-GUI.py gpicsync.py

5. Install the Ubuntu/Feisty package python-wxgtk2.8 which provides the python bindings for the wx library and the exiftool: sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 libimage-exiftool-perl

6. Run the program and start geotagging photos: ./gpicsync-GUI.py

Some photos from MySQL Conference 2007 Day 3

Clash of the Database Egos

Michael (Monty) Widenius, CTO & Co-founder, MySQL AB

Mikael Ronström, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB

Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB

Heikki Tuuri, Vice President, server technology, Innobase Oy

Ari Valtanen, Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Solid Information Technology

Paul Whittington, Founder and Chief Architect, NitroSecurity, Inc.

Mike Smith, IBM


Eben Moglen


Bdale Garbee

Some photos from MySQL Conference 2007 Day 2

See the complete set here: MySQL Conference 2007


Marten Miko & Guy Kawasaki


Marten Mikos / Mark Jones (hp) MySQL Partners of the Year Awards



Guy Kawasaki


Marten Mikos


Guy Kawasaki


Marten Mikos