Along with all the other blogs.. here is the Bubble video by SF band the Richter Scales.
Funny but not enough to make Diet Coke come out of my nose… Guess you need to be in the video or at least in the video to really appreciate it.
Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
It seems along with the generous stock deal, G5 jet and impeccable taste, it seems that I too now share with Steve Jobs a Fake blog. I really have no idea who is behind it, other than I pretty sure it’s not Daniel Lyons or Vanessa Lawrence 🙂
Perhaps those paleogeography-tards are trying to get to me !
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
The Onion a great news magazine and website from over the pond brings us their version of the World Fact Book in the form on a new Google Maps mash-up Our Dumb World – The worlds countries summarised into simple info bubbles, you need look no further for a comprehensive world view.
Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
Has anybody seen this data ?
If so, please return it in the envelope provided, as the owner would quite like it back.
Lisa, I think was a little shocked this evening when I jumped of the sofa and started swearing at the TV news.
Dear readers outside of the UK, I must explain.. the Government department responsible for taxation in the UK sent a dump of a database containing detailed personal and financial details of 25 million people (nearly half the UK population) on a couple of CD’s in the mail and it has gone missing !!
As an IT professional this is wrong on so many levels it really defies belief, why store personal information including address, national insurance details, Date of Birth etc in the same database as peoples bank details?, why dump them to a CD and not use the government secure intranet which has costs tens if not hundreds of millions to develop and operate, why not encrypt the data ?
The list just goes on and on.
The government say – don’t worry we don’t think the database has fallen into the wrong hands – well I don’t feel very reassured.
Now I’m just trying to convince Lisa to change her bank account, as she along with every mother/carer in the country has their bank accounts security compromised by these idiots !!
UPDATE
Looks like the data has been found.. don’t you just love the British sense of humour ?
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
I got myself in trouble on a number of occasions with my old boss when I drew the obvious comparisons between the Geodata industry and the Music Industry, and how Geodata providers needed to move with the times..
It is therefore interesting to see that a least one music industry boss is recognising the mistakes of the past/present… to quote Edgar Bronfman of Warner Music..
“We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing was exploding. And of course we were wrong. How were we wrong? By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find and as a result of course, consumers won.”
Remember this is not always about making information free, it is about making it accessible..
There is a lesson there for leadership of a number of .gov.uk organisations don’t you think ?
Written and submitted from Starbucks, Horseferry Road, using my three 3G modem.
One of the most formidable and well respected members of British Parliament, Gwyneth Dunwoody has attacked plans by the European Commission to fund Galileo, the European version of GPS.
The Commission is stepping in to fund the initial phases of the programme as a plan to obtain funding from potential commercial operators of the system failed.
Even if funding is found to launch the system the question as to what the eventual business model looks like is still unanswered, unlike GPS there is not Dept of Defence to write the cheques if all else fails, and the day to day running of the system will need to be funded.
From my time in Government, I remember nobody wanted to end up in front of Mrs Dunwoody, you can understand why !!
Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
Mr Jobs… No not that Steve…
This one..
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer believes Android is ‘just a press release’, well just wait till the release of the SDK next week Steve, its way more than a press release – I know because I have seen it !
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Me, I will be at the back of the line outside the Regent Street Applestore, in the line for my iPhone hopefully I will do a few lives blogs using my brilliant Three USB broadband modem – which is just great and has replaced by dependence on BT Openzone.
This wireless internet thing seems to have arrived !
Is it just me or has the tech and mainstream press missed the point on Android – It’s an opensource platform for mobiles and as such a potential alternative to the current closed nature of mobile networks and devices..
If you don’t like your current mobile then build your own !!
Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
As blog readers you are not doubt aware of Technorati, the aggregation site of the worlds blogs, well now they have a rather neat feature which allows you to watch postings in real time..
You can really sense how in particular the technology media landscape is changing, when was the last time you found out about a new technology development from something other than a blog?
Even major vendor announcements are made through blogs rather than the traditional established PR routes of the past.
I sense in the Geospatial technology area this even more the case !
Written and submitted from the Googleplex , Mountain View.
OK so just a little tongue in cheek, but the AGI team behind the annual UK GI conference would like input in bringing in the perspective of the “Neo-geographers” in planning next years event.
This is a great idea, let’s hope that enough people in the new world of users of GI find such organisations still relevant.. this years AGI event went some way to breaking down the boundaries between the two ages of geography , lets hope the paleo-geograpahers are ready for the guys in jeans for there is much to learn !!
Written and submitted from the Googleplex , Mountain View.