- Today I was caught red handed trying to blow up the world … mwah hah hah hah.
- A well known Irish budget airline found that its blue and yellow “harp” logo had suffered an, unasked for, logo makeover.
- The London Underground Tube map regains the River Thames and gets a version for tourists.
- Are you the sort of person who shouts at the screen “that’s not right” when watching a film? You’re not alone.
- Looking for a nearby wifi hotspot? A low tech approach can help.
- Microsoft’s new Windows 7 OS has inbuilt location services; but are they up to the challenge of managing location safely, securely and with sufficient flexibility?
- Submitting a paper abstract for a conference? This might help.
- You’ve probably heard of a Freudian Slip; now you can wear suitable slippers.
- If Jack The Ripper was alive today, would he use Twitter?
Posted via email from Gary’s Posterous
Another Piece Of Bloggage By Gary
Self professed "geek with a life", geo-blogger, geo-talker and geo-tweeter, Gary works in London and Berlin as Director of the Places Registry for Nokia; he's a co-founder of WhereCamp EU, the chair of w3gconf and sits on the W3C POI Working Group and the UK Location User Group. A contributor to the Mapstraction mapping API, Gary speaks and presents at a wide range of conferences and events including Where 2.0, State of the Map, AGI GeoCommunity, Geo-Loco, Social-Loco, GeoMob, the BCS GeoSpatial SG and LocBiz. Writing as regularly as possible on location, place, maps and other facets of geography, Gary blogs at www.vicchi.org and tweets as @vicchi.
Mail | Web | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Google+ | More Posts (271)Other bloggage that may or may not be geo-related to this one:
- Deliciousness: broken customer service, Twitter on a PostIt, speaking to dogs, the end of the world and Tube maps.
This week’s selection of what I bookmarked on Delicious. Illustrating just how broken the mobile operator’s customer support is, Rummble’s CEO Andrew Scott details his 9 month battle with O2...
- Deliciousness: more bacon, UK geek location, your PIN number, birds tweeting, Ohio as a piano, OMG and WTF and UNIX turns 40.
A semi regular, almost weekly, trawl through the latest stuff on the interwebs bookmarked on Delicious. This fad for all things bacon flavoured is getting out of hand; a few weeks...
- Where’s My Tube Train? Ah, There’s My Tube Train
Back in December of 2009, I wrote about Paul Clarke trying to solve the problem of where’s my train; that there must be a definitive, raw source of real-time (train) information...
- Curiously Cartographic Creations #1 – The Tourist Tube Map
London seems to have gone ever so slightly maps crazy of recent. Not only is there the Magnificent Maps exhibition opening at the British Library at the end of this...
- Crowd Sourcing The London Underground Tube Strike
From as early as 9.00 PM tonight, the London Underground network will be hit by a strike called by the RMT and TSSA unions. Again. For Londoners this will probably...
