A bit more bass..
Amazing what you find in the Google Cafe.. These guys are pretty cool. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Free Wifi in London map
A nice Free Wifi Access map from the Londonist, locating free public wifi sites, moderated at the moment pehaps it would be more useful if it allowed users to maintain the database. Still a long way from the original consume the net database. Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
Google Earth and GI Science
I have just returned from the beautiful town of Girona in Spain, where I was speaking at the AGILE 2008 Conference, a meeting of the key Geographic Information research laboratories in Europe, which was expertly organised by SIGTE the GIS Lab at the University of Girona. As is increasingly the case at conferences I attend, …
Cripes : The Labour party must be bad..
.. for Londoners to elect Boris Johnson as their new Mayor. His acceptance speech today was unbelievable, he will be one of the most powerful politicians in the UK as of Monday!! If he can get elected to this office, maybe anybody can; indeed perhaps there is a new career for some people I used …
iPlayer comes to Virgin Media
Good News, the wonderful BBC iPlayer is coming to users of Virgin Media’s cable TV service, let’s hope the flaky infrastructure of Virgin Media can cope with the demand. This poses an interesting question does it not, on one hand the ISP’s like Virgin Media are upset that applications like the iplayer are hogging broadband …
Links for 29 April 2008
GeoWeb 2008 Conference registration open GeoWeb, one of the highest quality GIS GI conferences held every year in beautiful Vancouver is open for Registration Apple Store staff become Star Trek cast members According to ifoapplestore.com, Apple Store staff are to wear colour coded shirts denoting their expertise with slogans specifc to their jobs, Specialists in …
PND’s not dead yet..
Last Week saw TomTom announce a large drop in quarterly earnings , with sales of their iconic PND becoming more difficult, needing price reductions to keep sales moving. Many are suggesting this is the natural evolution of the market, with saturation at a particular price point on one hand, while on the other, mobile phones …
Well, as the burnished chariot of fate is wheeled-clamped by the traffic warden of eternity…
We say Goodbye to the great Humphrey Lyttelton who died yesterday, Jazz Musician and host of the I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue radio show, one of the Great British institutions, and something which during my time in Southampton made by commute just about bearable. Humph was a great institution in himself, with a wicked …
Android competition entry demos augmented reality
From the Wired blog a demo of Enkin; still a work in progress, but potentially this is the LBS interface of the future.. Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo. Written and Submitted from the Google Office, London.
Links for 24 April 2008
Milliways: Play the legendary game Once upon a time, I used to love playing infocoms classic interpretation of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the brilliant waxy.org, brings news of the unfinished sequel Milliways, which has been found, and is playable !! Location aware twitter comes to the iPhone I just don’t see the point …