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Don’t expect the Ordnance Survey or any of the other professional mappers to help you in finding Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow airport. Yep, you have to rely on Open Street Map. See how the other’s handle it on the opengeodata blog. Here it is shown copyright free! (Click on map for latest version.)
Rediscovered ScribeFire today (used to be called Performancing). It’s just what I’ve been looking for to post to my WordPress blog from the iMac. It works straight in the Firefox browser (lets hope Firefox3 doesn’t bugger it up). Really cool just dragging images in to a post (especially screenshots created by Skitch). (OK dragging didn’t […]
Rediscovered ScribeFire today (used to be called Performancing). It’s just what I’ve been looking for to post to my WordPress blog from the iMac. It works straight in the Firefox browser (lets hope Firefox3 doesn’t bugger it up). Really cool just dragging images in to a post (especially screenshots created by Skitch). Like this…. Technorati […]
Couldn’t have said it better myself, having parented three kids… “My point is that we learn to crave what we are denied. It’s a perversity of human nature, but it’s also rather universal.” “Dr. Vaillant compared 136 men who were alcoholics with men who were not. Those who grew up in families where alcohol was […]
Here is the latest whizzo idea in stopping people walking on the pavements. The latest from BT in payphone kiosks. A phone booth that blocks of 5 feet of pavement – just so it can display a rotating advertisment on the other side. I wonder who dreams this stuff up? and then places it directly […]
Moved computer back into attic now its warmer 🙂 # Great video of the spread of Walmart through USA http://dev.mqlx.com/~toby/walmart.avi # Now in flying pig with boni after setting up bonisones.com # Powered by Twitter Tools.
This video is essential viewing http://tinyurl.com/27jppm for understanding about money & life. # @euan Pleased you enjoyed it. I found it totally amazing! The link came from http://tinyurl.com/32gruy # Powered by Twitter Tools.
A Happy White Easter from Cambridge England – photo at http://twitxr.com/geoff/updates/18681 # Sally having her Easter Sunday scone at The Orchard – photo at http://twitxr.com/geoff/updates/18732 # at arts cinema to see The Orphanage maybe orphanage2 will be about the Jersey scandal. # @Preoccupations Have you ever showed your students http://tinyurl.com/27jppm # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Here in Cambridge we are in the middle of a spectacular dump of snow not sure if it will be as awesome as the dumps Les Gets has been getting. I’ve been taking a series of pictures, like my daily mugshot, of a local magnolia tree. Todays is quite impressive. The full set is on […]
@obliquepanic Not a good day for biking i would say 🙁 # Another excellent massage from Sally. Exactly 1 hour according to di.fm chillout channel 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
