Month: May 2011

For the last twenty years or so, every car I have owned has had an Apple sticker proudly displayed on the back window. For many years fellow Apple enthusiasts have expressed our devotion to the Mac and our membership of a small but we believe righteous minority by such tribal markings.

Last week I took delivery of a new car and now face a dilemma .. I still love Apple stuff and spend more than ever in the temples known as Apple Stores, but I’m just not sure about the sticker anymore. It was fun in the late 1990’s spotting another car with an apple sticker because you knew there was another rare individual returning to their Mac.

Now of course it seems everybody uses a MacBook, iPhone or iPad, the sticker no longer has the same meaning..

So Dear Readers what should I do sticker or no sticker?

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Sorting out the database behind www.edparsons.com, I came across this blog post from 2005.

At the time  I was asked by my then employers to remove it from the blog which I did, but rather than delete it I just set it to private, it’s now public.  It’s really interesting how far the UK GI industry has come in the last 5 years, and it’s hard to imagine now why it caused such concern then..

So cast you mind back to April 2005, the month Tony Blair called the 2005 election and MG Rover went bust, a time before OS Opendata…”Open source mapping in the Press”

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