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.-
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...
Travels
Disclaimer
This is my personal blog not a corporate one; see the whole disclaimer here.Taggage
agi bacon berlin cartography conference customerservice data deliciousness facebook fail flickr foursquare geo geotagged google gps heathrow home identity iphone latitude lhr location london mac map maps mobile nokia online openstreetmap place posterous privacy sfo snowleopard social teddington tube twitter uk underground window wordpress yahooTweetage
- I'm not being a wimp but it's -7 and feels like -11. OK, I am being a wimp but even Reykjavik didn't feel this cold at this time of year. about 19 hours ago from web
- It. Is. Cold. (@ Berlin Tegel Airport (TXL) w/ @bunterberg) http://t.co/R8WCWtrY 08:50:53 AM February 07, 2012 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. 03:09:42 AM February 07, 2012 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) 03:04:57 AM February 07, 2012 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. 03:01:27 AM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck
Bookmarkage
Tag Archives: ownership
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Dec 10
Dec 10
The Delicious Debacle And My Dependence On The Cloud
About 6 months ago, when I announced that after 4 years I was leaving Yahoo! to join Nokia I wrote … So whilst I’m going to Nokia, I’ll continue to use my core set of Yahoo! products, tools and APIs … Continue reading
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Mar 10
Mar 10
Reclaim and Own Your Short URLs
There are many reasons to like the use of URL shorteners such as bit.ly and tinyurl.com. These free services take a long URL such as this post – http://www.vicchi.org/2010/03/03/reclaim-and-own-your-short-urls – and compresses them down to a much more manageable shorterned … Continue reading
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Dec 09
Dec 09
Geographic and Transport Data; a Tale of Capricousness, Whimsy and Downright Insanity
The industry I work in thrives on data; we consume loads of the stuff and in turn we generate petabytes of it. I’m talking about data in general, not the geographic, mapping or place data that I usually write about. … Continue reading
