January 18, 2012 – 6:21 pm
Shane Warne has an argument with a cyclist. At a point during the argument, he drives forward and damages the bike (something he’s admitted!) so badly it can’t be ridden, he then leaves the scene without exchanging details and goes straight to twitter to put his version of the events. Meantime, the cyclist does the [...]
January 17, 2012 – 3:50 pm
I find this very troubling. Someone at Google appears to be deliberately and systematically polluting and plundering the crowdsourced data of competitors. Two instances seem to have been all but proven so far (check this post about OpenStreetMap and Mocality), it seems unlikely that it stops there. If ever an action was hypocritical and seemingly [...]
November 11, 2011 – 9:44 pm
Recently, the enormous and daunting (for cyclists) Haymarket Roundabout in North Melbourne was refurbished to provide better traffic flow and greater safety for cyclists. Mostly, I’d say it’s been a success. I ride through the roundabout every day, but only from Royal Parade to Elizabeth Street, hardly ever the other way. If I did ride [...]
Update: 18 months now, still prodding google, but no answers yet Google Street View is brilliant – in fact, the whole digital map revolution is largely driven by expectations set by Google. Their tech is amazing. Unfortunately, as an organisation, they often fail to come up to scratch. A shame… here’s an example: Every now [...]
Like the rest of the world, I’ve watched, appalled as the people of Japan dealt with the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear. Only slightly less appalling is the way the nuclear lobby have pointed to Fukushima as an example of why nuclear energy is safe and good. I don’t pretend to be an [...]
To the dummies who don’t want a carbon tax… Do you realise that we, the Australian taxpayer, currently PAY the fossil fuel industry $9 billion dollars a year? They are a drain on your pocket to the tune of around $450 per person, per year. Of course they don’t want you to stop! We are [...]
One of those “see it but don’t believe it” moments on 6pm with George Negus. Hugh Riminton starts his presentation from Washington when a dog cruises by in the background… on a skateboard! The rest of the family looked at me like I was crazy, but I wasn’t the only one to see it!
In the wake of my previous post, I was checking out some of the photos on Google maps of Sydney Road, one of my photos came up first, which was nice, but then I started navigating around the nearby photos… they were all crappy photos of a shoe store! I probably missed this addition, but [...]
Couple of new things on Google Maps / Street View. They’ve added some new imagery captured by the trike, Google Earth Blog has a good write up of the additions. While I was there, I was alerted by user “Munden” that the blue dots of user generated photos had disappeared from the Google Maps when [...]
February 22, 2011 – 1:23 pm
Christchurch cops it again! Live footage on ABC24. Harrowing stuff. People being pulled out of the Pyne Gould Guinness building shown here before (google street view) and after. Ooops! I’ll leave the post as is, but it seems my ‘before’ picture is the building next door – almost identical in appearance. Street view stops just [...]
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