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16
Apr 10

Not All Satellite Imagery is Created Equal

Posted on 16th April 2010 by Gary

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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25
Mar 10

Near Instantaneous Trans Atlantic Travel

Posted on 25th March 2010 by Gary

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 →

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20
Mar 10

Deliberately (and Unexpectedly) Tracking My Journey

Posted on 20th March 2010 by Gary

I’ve been tracking my journey and in doing so inadvertently uncovered a sea change in the way in which we view the whole thorny issue of location tracking. Yesterday, Ed Parsons and I drove from London to Nottingham and back … Continue reading →

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08
Mar 10

Thinking of Linking

Posted on 8th March 2010 by Gary

Hyperlinks in the form of web links are the lifeblood of today’s internet and world wide web. Examination of your web server’s log files, either directly via tools such as Webalizer or indirectly via analytics services such as Yahoo’s or … Continue reading →

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01
Mar 10

Posterous; Paused. Possibly Permanently?

Posted on 1st March 2010 by Gary

I’ve never run or hosted my own search engine. I’ve run and hosted web servers, mail servers, proxy servers and caching servers (I’m even contemplating running my own URL shortener), but never a search engine. There was a time when … Continue reading →

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