What a cool idea. Last week, on 28 September, the city of Reykjavik in Iceland doused all its street lights for half an hour to mark the opening of the Reykjavik International film Festival. So far so good, but better yet, while the lights were out a renowned astronomer talked about the stars and constellations on the radio.
After yesterday's unpleasant little moan about the difficulties of geotagging, cyberspace has made everything more or less right again. First off, Jeffrey Early, author of GPSPhotoLinker, took the time to deal with my queries and suggest strongly that I complain to iView. I will, but now that th...
It seems such a no-brainer. Add geographical information to your photos, upload them to Flickr, and Lo!, you can bore the world with a map showing where they were taken. OK, it needs a few gizmos and some software, but all that was an utter doddle compared to the bit that ought to be easy.
I sent...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.3 This week: ??.?
Tuesday 26 September: Away for work, and surrounded by good food, with not a scale in sight. The oil travelled with me in an ordinary small water bottle and didn't spill a drop, so that’s good to know. And I have tried to keep down my intake, without a...
And what I yam is late to the spinach uproar. I feel really, really sorry for those parents who thought they were doing the right thing, feeding their children healthy spinach greens like they had been told to, and then had to watch those children fight for life and sometimes lose. But this is yet a...
