Archive for April, 2006

worker’s theatre - brilliant!

Friday, April 28th, 2006

They built this city.

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Undocumented Google map trick

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

An article on Ogle Earth alerts us to a neat trick to get a location from Google Maps to Google Earth. Simply add ‘&output=kml’ to the URL of the map you are viewing, (be sure to click the ‘Link to this page’ on the map first!). I created this simple javascript gMaps2kml bookmarklet, that seems […]

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My little commute…

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

It hardly rates as a bicycle commute - only 6.5k and even while I was taking photos, only 20 minutes, but in response to a mild challenge from thingoid, I hereby offer my very modest commute.

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the party is definitely over…

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

one of the most public icons of the Commonwealth Games were the fish on the Yarra

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Google gets organised…

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Piece by clever piece, Google are putting together the bits I need to manage my life online.

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Yahoo! Maps - a rival for Google?

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Since Google released their maps/local product on the world, they have really ‘owned’ the space. The Ajax word has become common parlance, and we’ve all learned to expect a lot more from our browsers.
Microsoft brought out their Live Local product in an attempt to rival Google. It is good - slicker than google, but somehow […]

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