2003/2/17
Google buys Pyra Labs, the company who brought blogging to the masses with Blogger (that's the web-based blogging tool everybody used before Movable Type) and free ad-supported hosting service BlogSpot (that's sort of the GeoCities of blogs).
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now has OSM maps of Brighton and central Nottingham on his Palm as well. (5h ago)
Just made a 29Mb, 3-layer scrollable map of London. Installed on a SD card, mapview copes with it nicely (even if the UI isn't iPhone-sexy) (6h ago)
I now have a makeshift script for fetching OpenStreetMap tiles and making a PalmOS-viewable map from them. (6h ago)
just got home (24/7)
Finally finished wrestling with data, and going home. (24/7)
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2007/7/17
Today's Cat and Girl is particularly choice:2006/7/24
The latest trend in America: able-bodied people riding mobility scooters because they can't be arsed walking : On a recent afternoon at Walt Disney World, Dennis Robles was cruising around on an electric "mobility scooter" that2003/7/23
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