Archive for July, 2005

it’s gastronomical!

Friday, July 29th, 2005

Oh, wow!! three of my favourite things in the one place! Food, Alcohol and being Trivial!! Not only that, it’s local - just a few minutes away. gastronomica
Now all I need is a babysitter for the next eight Monday nights! Any offers?

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google maps mania!

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

Up until now, pretty well all my googlemaps posts have been related to the cool things that turn up in the photos - I’m a very visually motivated person!
However, I’m also a web developer, so it hasn’t slipped my notice that google have created a very flexible API for people to hook other information into. […]

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again! - what’s this *again*?!

Monday, July 25th, 2005

Over at googlesightseeing.com I think they must be getting sick of me. They posted Australia’s Parliament House, which, among others, I suggested. However, in the spotter credits they say “woowoowo (again!)”. What’s that all about?
Anyway, I’ll show them! While we’re in the Nation’s C we’ll stop by a few other sights:

The National Museum
The Telstra Tower […]

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the tower of terror!

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

I was talking to a friend today about the Queensland theme parks. The Gold Coast is the holiday destination of choice for 7 - 14 year olds for one reason… well, four reasons: Seaworld, Dreamworld, Movieworld and Wet’n’Wild.
Dreamworld is my choice for action and rides and my favourite is the Tower of Terror, casting it’s […]

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going sideways…

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Here are the famous Horizontal Falls in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. I’ve never been there myself - hope to one day!
This particular spot is where the massive tides of the area get jammed through a rather small gap, creating a Horizontal Waterfall. When the tide turns, the water ‘falls’ back in the other […]

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something in the air…

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

There is still relatively little high res imagery of Australia, there’s even less that covers major airports and regional airports… well, they’re hard to find. All the same, it’s a bit disappointing when the US has so many planes in flight, that I could only find this one, just off Point Cook, Victoria. We […]

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birth pains of a nation…

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

Of course, I’m still finding interesting things on google maps, but every now and then you stumble across something that is more than just an image. You see, the high-res photos on google are (we’re told) up to 3 years old, the medium res ones are probably more… they are little snapshots of history.
On May […]

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amazing google sights…

Monday, July 4th, 2005

Yeah, I’m still hooked on Google maps, so I’m going to risk boring you with a few more great spots to visit. First, there’s this hot air balloon over Berlin. Then there are some enormous fires in Siberia. Finally - it’s virtually impossible to spot individual people on these maps, but a crowd is pretty […]

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