About
Husband, Father, coffee addict, Scifi and Electronica fan, UNIX and Mac user and in my day job I'm Director of the Places Registry for Nokia.-
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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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- It. Is. Cold. (@ Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) w/ @bunterberg) http://t.co/R8WCWtrY about 21 minutes ago from foursquare
- WP Biographia (http://t.co/kCYCjgx7) is getting i18n; Spanish and Turkish are already in the works. Get in touch if you'd like to help. about 6 hours ago from web
- @SalPavone Check out FAQ # 5 on http://t.co/BojfSpBe; the bio information goes in your user profile settings (Dashboard/Users/Your Profile) about 6 hours ago from web in reply to SalPavone
- Heading to Berlin this morning and then to Düsseldorf; packing my thermals after looking at the weather forecast. Brrrr. about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck
- Snowing. Definitely Snowing. http://t.co/dd4sS1vX 09:52:31 PM February 04, 2012 from Instagram
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Tag Archives: google
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Nov 10
Nov 10
Costa Rica And Nicaragua; A Border Dispute In The Age Of Web Maps
The popular press and media likes nothing better to poke fun at people who seem to ignore their own senses and instead rely on their GPS sat-nav systems, which frequently results in people ending up in the middle of fields, … Continue reading
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Jul 10
Jul 10
More Location Tracking; This Time From Foursquare
Back in March of this year I wrote about deliberately tracking my journey by using Google’s Latitude and unexpectedly tracking the same journey by looking at the history of my Foursquare and Gowalla check-ins. By using the history function from … Continue reading
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May 10
May 10
Latitude Inconsistitude
In the midst of yesterday’s I/O event, Google announced the launch of the long rumoured API for their Latitude location sharing platform; there’s ample coverage and commentary on ReadWriteWeb and on TechCrunch and that’s just fine because that’s not what … Continue reading
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Apr 10
Apr 10
Not All Satellite Imagery is Created Equal
Pretty much invisible at night, still officially at war with their southern neighbour and under United Nations economic sanctions, North Korea is a blank spot on political maps of the area. Even the satellite imagery layer in Google Maps has … Continue reading
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Near Instantaneous Trans Atlantic Travel
I’ve been tracking my journeys again and in doing so appear to have discovered the secret of near instantaneous trans Atlantic travel. Apart from the sporadic bad GPS locks, watch as I travel from home to the Yahoo! campus in … Continue reading
