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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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- Steve Krause on WP Biographia – A WordPress Plugin: Love the Plugin Gary! Using it at my site –...
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- 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's #uksnow time again. A light dusting in Teddington but it's still coming down. about 7 hours ago from TweetDeck
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- New Bloggage: Two Website Outages; One Important, One Trivial - http://t.co/tM69K0uZ 05:41:27 AM February 01, 2012 from web
- @chillly 5+ WordPress blogs, email on same number of domains, PHP, MySQL, shell access, FTP access, Apache. Nothing too special. 12:14:26 PM January 28, 2012 from web in reply to chillly
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Tag Archives: uk
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Jun 11
Jun 11
The Non Golden Rules of Geo (Redux)
Back when I used to work for Yahoo! I wrote a lot of posts for the Geo Technologies blog; for reasons partially explained in my last post, that blog is now offline, presumed dead. But one post that seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged addressing, geo, geotagged, geotechnologies, golden, london, rules, uk, yahoo
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Jan 10
Jan 10
Is it Great Britain, the United Kingdom, the British Isles or what exactly?
In February 2009 I wrote a post for the Yahoo! Geo Technologies blog about how people outside of the United Kingdom are sometimes confused by the vagaries of how to correctly write street addresses in the UK and if the United Kingdom is a … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged berlin, eire, england, geo, geography, geotagged, greatbritain, kempinskibristol, northernireland, scotland, uk, unitedkingdom, wales
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Oct 09
Oct 09
An Open Letter to Asda and Walmart
This is an open letter to Andy Bond, Chief Executive of Asda and to Mike Duke, CEO of Wal-Mart. As a British citizen who travels a lot in the US I understand that the “customer service” ethos which is so … Continue reading
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Oct 09
Oct 09
When a Middle Initial Has Transatlantic Significance
Mr. Iain Banks is a Scottish author with two personas. As Iain Banks he writes mainstream, if slightly edgy, novels. As Iain M. Banks he writes science fiction novels, including the Culture series, which deals with a vast and sprawling … Continue reading
Posted in Journal
Tagged author, culture, iainbanks, iainmbanks, uk, us, waspfactory, writer
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Aug 09
Aug 09
Deliciousness: more bacon, UK geek location, your PIN number, birds tweeting, Ohio as a piano, OMG and WTF and UNIX turns 40.
A semi regular, almost weekly, trawl through the latest stuff on the interwebs bookmarked on Delicious. This fad for all things bacon flavoured is getting out of hand; a few weeks back it was bacon flavoured vodka and now you can … Continue reading
Posted in deliciousness
Tagged bacon, creditcard, deliciousness, geek, location, omg, pin, twitter, uk, unix, wtf
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