About
Husband, Father, coffee addict, Scifi and Electronica fan, UNIX and Mac user and in my day job I'm Director of Places for Nokia.-
Recent Postage
Recent Commentage
- Steve Krause on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Love the Plugin Gary! Using it at my site –...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: A quick question on plugins for author images vs. avatars. I think...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, Looks like you’re using the TwentyEleven theme; this...
- Rory on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: hi Gary, one further question … how can i get rid of the...
- Gary on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Hi Rory, The contact details need to be added to your user profile;...
Recent Trackbackage
- John’s Weblog on The Non Golden Rules of Geo: Gary Gale has reproduced the original blog entry here. Categories: Semantic...
- edparsons.com on A smartphone without location is just not smart !: Gary at www.vicchi.org and Peter at geothought.blogspot.com offer a more nuanced...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Adding Windows Phone 7 Support To WordPress...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, buybestultd,...
- Gary's Bloggage -- Topsy.com on Tweets that mention Putting The Tube On The Grid; A Geeked Out...: This post was mentioned on Twitter by Gary Gale, Karen Leech. Karen...
- de.straba.us on WhereCamp EU 2011 – The Geo Unconference For Europe: Gale, con il post “Ich Bin Geograph” – WhereCamp EU Is Coming To...
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This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
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- @thisisaaronland I can see the resemblance if I squint hard. about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to thisisaaronland
- @theDRCP Cool. I'll look out for it ... email address is over at http://t.co/mnEZV4No about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to theDRCP
- @theDRCP Nice looking theme. Not sure I'm happy stumping up $35.00 to try and sort this. Maybe drop me a mail and we can take this offline? about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to theDRCP
- @theDRCP Premium/paid-for theme? Or free one? about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to theDRCP
- @theDRCP It does help, but I still can't duplicate this. What theme are you using? about 14 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to theDRCP
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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.
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Feb 12
Feb 12
Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial
On Tuesday 24th. January 2012 both vicchi.org and garygale.com went down. Then again, last night, both sites went down again. The first of these outages was entirely intentional; like many other sites on the web from the huge to the … Continue reading
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Jan 12
Jan 12
Transatlantic Telephone Call (On A Plane)
Late last year I wrote, with childish and geekish joy, about onboard wifi on Virgin America. This year, on my first trip of the year to the US, I discovered another item which elicited the same reaction. There’s some things … Continue reading
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Dec 11
Dec 11
WP Biographia Hits v2.1.1 In Time For Christmas
WP Biographia’s always had the ability to suppress the display of the plugin’s Biography Box for all users; unfortunately that’s been accomplished by simply not installing the plugin. But judging from requests on the WordPress forums as well as emails … Continue reading
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Tagged biographia, geotagged, plugin, teddington, wordpress, wp-biographia
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Dec 11
Dec 11
Revisiting The Online Me (On A Plane)
Although I fly a lot these days, I don’t fly on internal routes in the US that much and so flying Virgin America, which has onboard wifi, is still something that brings out the childish geek in me. In homage … Continue reading
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Nov 11
Nov 11
Smart Phone. Clumsy User
I have learnt four things over the past year or so. One. The iPhone 3′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-stone-floor resistant. Two. I am clumsy. Three. The iPhone 4′s glass was scratch resistant but not dropping-onto-a-pavement resistant. Four. … Continue reading
