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just got home (20m ago)
Finally finished wrestling with data, and going home. (118m ago)
Conveniently enough, there's already Python code for mapping (lat,long) coordinates to OSM tile URLs: http://is.gd/11vf (6h ago)
Found a tiled map viewer for PalmOS. Wonder how hard it'd be to get it to browse downloaded OpenStreetMap tiles. http://www.lith.at/mapview/ (6h ago)
Just found out that my visa renewal will be a good deal simpler than I was expecting it to be. (11h ago)
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2007/7/17
Today's Cat and Girl is particularly choice:2006/7/22
Tourist Remover is an online photo utility which, when given several photos of a scene, creates a composite photo containing only what appears in all the photos. I.e., if you give it several photos of2003/7/23
Ever wonder why Google have a copyright notice at the bottom of their (not exactly intellectual-property-rich) search page? It's not so much to appease the lawyers as it is to let you know where the page