Tag Archives: london

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Mar 12

TSA WTF

Posted on 16th March 2012 by Gary

It’s Friday, December 9th 2011 and I’m in the TSA security line at San Francisco International Airport. Shoes off. Belt off. Watch off. Laptop, iPad and Kindle out of my bag and into the trays. TSA guard: “New rules. You … Continue reading →

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Mar 12

Check In, Get Acquired, Check Out. Farewell Gowalla

Posted on 12th March 2012 by Gary

With the benefit of hindsight, it was probably inevitable but 5 years after the location based, check in social network we know as Gowalla launched and 3 months after they were acquired by Facebook, Gowalla is no more. Despite launching … Continue reading →

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Mar 12

Is This Apple’s New Map? (It Doesn’t Look Like Google’s)

Posted on 8th March 2012 by Gary

Updated 8/3/12 at 12.20 GMT Judging by comments to this blog post, on Twitter and on Google Plus, the consensus seems to be that yes, Apple is using OSM data from 2010 outside of the US; inside of the US … Continue reading →

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Feb 12

Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial

Posted on 1st February 2012 by Gary

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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Nov 11

Beta No More; WP Biographia Hits Version 2.0

Posted on 21st November 2011 by Gary

It’s taken a while but after 20 commits on GitHub, 1000 odd lines of PHP code, 40 odd WordPress forum posts and, what to me is a staggering, 1100 odd WordPress downloads, WP Biographia finally hits version 2.0. As I’ve … Continue reading →

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