Tag Archives: heathrow

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Oct 11

At The Airport, Not All QR Codes Are Created Equal

Posted on 18th October 2011 by Gary

Another day, another flight, another addition to the ever growing and increasingly arcane number of steps that you need to go through in order to get through an airport and actually take off on a plane. I’ve written before on … Continue reading →

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05
Sep 11

Farewell Yahoo! Maps API, Hello Nokia Maps API

Posted on 5th September 2011 by Gary

Yahoo’s JavaScript and AJAX API was the first mapping API I ever used and it now seems hard to remember when Yahoo’s API offerings were the dominant player, always iterating and innovating. The Yahoo! API set formed and continued to … Continue reading →

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01
Aug 11

“Disk Utility Can’t Repair This Disk”

Posted on 1st August 2011 by Gary

“Quis backup ipsos backups?“, as the Roman poet Juvenal didn’t say but might have if they had had computers in the first century AD. Like most geeks I pride myself on being able to maintain the computers I use on … Continue reading →

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Jan 11

Airport Security X-Ray Oddness

Posted on 26th January 2011 by Gary

Since I started my role at Nokia in Berlin in May of last year I’ve swapped the daily commute from home to work by train to a weekly commute by plane. This means I have to pass through airport security … Continue reading →

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19
Oct 10

Does Location Need Some PR Love?

Posted on 19th October 2010 by Gary

In an interview with GoMo News earlier this year, I talked about “the Bay Area bubble”, this is the mind-set found in Silicon Valley “where a lot of the products and services coming out seem to think your user will … Continue reading →

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