It's taken a while but the consultation into opening up the Ordnance Survey's United Kingdom mapping and geographic data is out and is no doubt being debated, looked at, discussed, pulled apart and opined on. Whilst every Ordnance Survey employee I've ever spoken to is utterly in favour of this move there's still continued resistance to openness, though the gap between the two extremes of FreeOurData and the UK Government's Cabinet Office is closing and closing fast. Of course, it doesn't help when the Ordnance Survey asserts rights over the crime maps produced by London's Metropolitan Police either.

Yet again it's been a while. But there's stuff out there on the Internet you know.

• Considering he was a fictitious character set in 1880's London, Arthur Conan Doyle certainly made sure that Sherlock Holmes got about; someone's even displayed all of this on a map of London.
• Want an instant ergonomic desk? Let me rephrase that. Want an instant ergonomic desk that clips to your car's steering wheel? What more could you need? "This has been a total lifesaver. It allows me to prop my sheet music against the wheel, allowing me to play the guitar with both hands while driving."
• Recently DropBox stopped synching my files from my local DropBox to my remote one in the cloud. Deleting ~/.dropbox helped get things synching properly again.
• I can never remember the key combinations needed to start my Intel Macs into single user mode, or to boot from the DVD. The Apple KnowledgeBase has it all documented.
• The GeoVation Challenge made into the BBC. Disclosure; I'm on the judging panel.
• Want to travel from Newquay in Cornwall to Kyle of Lochalsh in Scotland? Want to do it by train? You better have a grand to spare; £1002.00 to be precise.
• In Schipol and seeing a crocodile in a suitcase? This may help explain.
• Best. Magazine. Name. Ever. Part 2.
• I never made it to the Social Media '09 conference in London this year; but I was there in Tweet if not in body.