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Also downloaded Inkscape for OSX, just in case. (23/7)
just downloaded Gimp for his MacBook (23/7)
Looking around OpenStreetMap, at the unlikely places they already have street maps for. (Akureyri? Port Moresby? Vladivostok?) (23/7)
OpenStreetMap is starting to look quite good: http://www.openstreetmap.org/ (23/7)
Just ordered a new single-cup mesh for the office coffee machine. (23/7)
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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 of2003/7/22
Increasingly many Americans are looking to move to Canada . The reasons range from dismay with the neo-conservative political monoculture since 9/11 to canny consumers shopping for a better social contract (i.e., health care, decriminalised marijuana,