Monthly Archives: June 2007

RACV misses the point… again!

June 27, 2007 – 6:27 pm

Don’t get me wrong – the RACV does a good job, I’ve been a member for over 25 years and have little cause for complaint, but the “A” in their name is really what they are about. It’s cars they care about, they do consider bicycles and motorcycles, but it’s patchy and somehow always dismissive. [...]

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annoying news

June 20, 2007 – 9:05 pm

Two items on tonight’s news got me annoyed for different reasons.
1. Politicians pay rises. No, I’m not against them getting a pay rise… lets face it, it’s a shit job!. No, the annoying thing was the smug way they say the raise was ‘fair‘ because it was awarded by an ‘independent judge’. That sounds alarmingly [...]

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Google is the new axis of evil

June 6, 2007 – 4:04 pm

The Fairfax created “Brisbane Times” site blares out Terrorists also find Google useful, obviously this google maps thing is a threat to all of us! Presumably the terrorists also found computers rather useful – oh, and the internet! and probably Microsoft’s operating system… yep, we should ban the lot of them.
Alternatively, perhaps we could look [...]

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Apple’s new browser ;-)

June 4, 2007 – 12:36 pm

Was doing a bit of ‘drag and drop’ on my mac a while back, when I accidentally ‘dropped’ in the wrong place. The result was a web page that rendered in the software update window.
Not really so surprising given the ubiquity of the webkit in Mac OSX, but to have it render pages so nicely [...]

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So, how did Google do it?

June 1, 2007 – 9:47 pm

Well, the fact is, they didn’t – entirely. Sure, it appears in Google’s wonderful maps, but the images were captured by a company called Immersive Media, who have developed these innovative products.
It seems that Immersive’s main thrust is moving images – spherical video with embedded geodata – very impressive stuff. In typical Google fashion, however, [...]

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