View allAll Photos Tagged java
Facebook's Java based batch uploader
Pretty cool, but selecting files is kinda hard and long filenames can't be shown
The Java leg of our trip. Started from Jakarta to Yogyakarta by train, to Mt. Bromo and from there to Surabaya
Outside of Surabaya on the Indonesian island of Java is the spectacular complex of volcanoes at Mt. Bromo. This photo was taken just after sunrise.
This place is long gone, but I used to love to come here back in the late 1990's. This was Java Net Cafe in Northampton, Massachusetts. They started out with these iMacs, and moved on to the more modern iMacs for internet use there. Their coffee was good, though I think Haymarket Cafe( right up the street) beats them in the coffee taste department. I wish they didn't close. Starbucks is right up the street, too and ya know how all the Yuppy's love that shitty, burned, old, stomac acid inducing, coffee. Hard to keep a cool place like this going under with "sheep" going to Starbucks. I used to love Starbucks, and still love their packaging of their products, and how they expanded into music and other areas. I just absolutely HATE their coffee. It's shit! I talked to a few coffee roaster dudes about this. They said it's because Starbucks no longer roasts and grinds on site. This means they sell product that gets old quickly as it is already ground when you buy it. I don't know how true this is, but I wish they would do a better quality control on their beans!
The actual River Kwai bridge materials were brought from Java by the Imperial Japanese Army during their occupation of Thailand. In 1945 the bridge was bombed several times and was only rebuilt after the war - the curved portions of the bridge are original. The first version of the bridge, completed in February 1943 was all wood. In April of the same year, a bridge of steel was constructed. The strategic objective of the railway was to secure an alternative supply route for the Japanese conquest of Burma.
Roughly two thirds of the railway runs through Thailand. Much of the railway was built in difficult terrain that requires high bridges and deep mountain cuttings. The rails were finally joined 37 kilometres south of the Three Pagodas Pass. The River Kwai Bridge was in use for 20 months before Allied bombers bombed it in 1945. The Japanese even tied Allied POW’s on the bridge to discourage Allied bombing. Only one POW was known to have escaped, a Briton who took refuge among the pro-British Karen guerrillas. Although the number of POW’s who died during the Japanese occupation is a sad and horrible part of this war, the figure for the labourers, many from Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia are even worse. It is estimated that 90,000 to 100,000 Asians died.
Little remains of the original railway, west of Nam Tok, Karen and Mon tribes carried off much of the track to use in the construction of local building and bridges. The Railway Museum in front of the Bridge have engines used during WWII now on display there. Every year during the first week of December there is a nightly Light & Sound Festival at the bridges, commemorating the Allied attack on the Death Railway in 1945 complete with the sound of bombers and explosions with fantastic bursts of light ending with a firework display. The best way to get to the bridge is to catch a Songthaew from town ( this is a truck that takes its name from the two bench seats fixed along either side of the back of the truck ). Some vehicles have roofs high enough to accommodate standing passengers within the vehicle. Sometimes standing passengers occupy a small platform attached to the rear, alternatively you could take a motor cycle taxi.
This first visit to Kanchanaburi was a bit of a disaster for me. It was only three months previously, I had open heart surgery, and the heat and humidity was terrible. I suppose in one respect it made me realize how it must have been for those poor prisoners of war, on top of which the diseases, bad living conditions, punishing work load, added to the terrible conditions here at that time. I was faced with a bit of a dilemma, the train I had arrived on ( which I had booked to travel to Nam Tok ) gave me no time to see more of the town. My intention was to travel along to see the wooden Wang Pho viaduct section near Tham Krasae station in Sai Yok District. I could not do both. I made the decision to get off the train at River Kwai bridge stop, so I could see more of the of the town. As I watched and filmed the train disappearing over the River Kwai bridge I set about walking around the town.
I headed for the River Kwae restaurant, however there are many near the bridge itself. The restaurant I found had a great view of the bridge and river from its seating area, much of which was open to the views. After the meal, which was good and reasonable, I got talking to a Thai man who owned one of the long tailed motor boats. He offered to take me to the cemetery up river and the Cave Temple called Koapoon Cave Temple. Not knowing the area I thought this cemetery we were going to was the main one. Sadly it was not, it was Chungkai War Cemetery. However leaving the boat it was a short walk to the entrance of this Cemetery. Chungkai War Cemetery is about 5 kilometres west of Kanchanaburi in Tha Ma Kham Mueang and can be reached by highway 3228 or a little farther north, over the narrow sud chai bridge leading from Maenamkwai road, or by ferry crossing at the junction of the two rivers, or by any of the many river boats similar to the one I went on.
I just couldn't get these guys to pose in good light for me. I had a rented 500mm and had to lean way over the balcony just to get this one. They had a nest build under the tile just above their heads and kept popping in and out of sight. This was taken on the island of Kauai.
Silly project to be handed in bacher :S, easy java bass u have to think alot :S
For my self i enjoy coding alot e9ra7ah :D