Archive for October, 2008

the other street view

Friday, October 31st, 2008

…there’s another one? I hear you gasp! Yes, it seems the old one about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery has struck a chord at streetdirectory.com.au - and they obviously love Google!
This is sort of amazing to me - I mean it’s incredible enough that a giant corporation like google pushes forward with a […]

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a change in the weather

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Melburnians are obsessed with weather. More accurately, we are obsessed with predicting the weather. Of course it’s a national joke that we can have four seasons in one day, but we don’t mind that as long as we can tell when those seasons will fall. Our chief tool in this quest, is the venerable BOM […]

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crisis, what crisis?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I am the only one that’s had enough of the ‘Economic Crisis’? It covers every newspaper and leads every bulletin. Apparently, it was caused by greedy people, but the general obsession with every rise and fall of ‘the market’ shows me we’ve learned nothing.
More than this though, it’s made me quite angry that this economic […]

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hell on wheels

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Another case of a driver attacking a cyclist with their vehicle… when you consider the number of deaths caused by vehicles compared to other better known ‘offensive weapons’ it is simply nothing short of attempted murder.
The latest report I heard was that police were seeking a late model ford with an EVK or EVQ number […]

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yay for lolcats!

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

I am soooo web 2 point OH! I have just created my first lolcat using a photo I took of Viv enjoying yesterday’s warm weather. If you’re a member of ichc, you should definitely click on the picture and vote for my pic.

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Manly part two

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Still banging on about my recent Sydney trip. I took an extra day in my schedule for a bit of tourism. After a bit of deliberation, I decided to head for the Spit Bridge and did the Spit to Manly Scenic Walkway.
Beautiful! Unlike anything else I’ve done in Sydney. There were some places which really […]

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Manly vs. Melbourne

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

I was in Sydney last week for the excellent WDS08, but it was some other aspects of Sydney that I want to write about this time.
1. Soul
Sydney doesn’t seem to have one. I find it an intensely sad city - I’m sure there are exceptions, but Sydney is beautiful in spite of what has been […]

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Flickr’s open (street) map

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I don’t know when this happened, but last night when I placed some photos on my flickr map, I was delighted to see that (in certain areas, and at certain magnifications) they have started to use OpenStreetMap for the map layer.
Yahoo were generous enough to allow OSM to use their satellite data as a reference […]

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