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Geotagging in Flickr
The new geotagging feature in Flickr is very nice, but it does show up the shortcomings of Yahoo Maps in the UK. The maps really are poor compared with Google Maps. In particular, the whereabouts of railway lines is really off-kilter.
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All Star Cup
The All Star Cup on ITV, and more particularly ITV2, offers a somewhat better streaming service than Time Team. But then it’s real golf coverage – albeit that some of it is decidedly average. The US team seems a little short of star names, although any actor in television worth his or her salt will…
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Swans on the River
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Wottakers
My local Ottakers has completed its transformation into a Waterstones.
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Time Team Live – Big Royal Dig
Have you caught any of Time Team Live this weekend? They’re conducting excavations at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Holyrood House Palace. What’s really strange is the More 4 live coverage. More 4 is doing a sort of streaming service which just shows you shots of the dig underway during the day with no commentary…
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Writely Post This is
Writely Post This is a bit of test to copy to check that I can send this from Writely. Minutes later… Well that seems to work OK. Lots of ways of getting stuff onto this site now.
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Movable Type
Another quick entry to test my so-called tag cloud…
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Movable Type 3.32
Well after a couple of false starts I think I’ve now got Movable Type version 3.3 (3.32 indeed) working. I had some false starts earlier which gave a “PreSave failed” error. Googling it really didn’t help, and I was flumoxed. But I think that I failed to update a folder since a second reinstall seems…
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Woman in a Box of Rats
She’s there to publicise a Keep Britain Tidy initiative to get people to stop dropping food on our streets.
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Galloway in Beirut
“Gorgeous” George Galloway is presenting a couple of shows for Talksport live from Beirut this weekend in what his station has described (according to Mediaguardian) as “the first live radio phone-in broadcast from a war zone”. They are kidding aren’t they? Will he be hosting his show from southern Beirut? And did I not read…
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Gambling
I read this great extract from Mike Atherton’s new book, Luck Be a Lady Tonight: Gambling – A Story of Triumph and Disaster, in the paper this morning. And, yes, that is ex-England cricketing captain Mike Atherton. I may actually have to buy this book.
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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