This morning, I visited VICROADS new real time traffic information map, hoping to see something half way useful. I was disappointed! So, I sent them some feedback: Congratulations on the release of your new traffic info service. What an utterly wasted opportunity it represents! Why didn’t you develop a tool using Google’s Map API? Then …
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opening pandora’s box
Do you like music? Then you will love Pandora. Visit the Pandora website – type something in: an artist name or song title and this site uses the collected wisdom of the Music Genome Project to serve up a stream of music related to your selection by an array of musical attributes – “genes”. The …
the best iPod bug I’ve ever seen!
A colleague called me over to look at their WinPC today. She plugged in her iPod and it appeared in iTunes, but the name and music were not hers! It was like it was someone else’s iPod. The music played, everything worked, but it was 6Gb of someone else’s stuff! Spooky!!
google maps – zoomier than before?
Has Google Maps just added another feature? They used to come thick and fast – but almost always on a weekend. Today I visited an old bookmark and found ‘We are sorry, but we don’t have imagery at this zoom level for this region.’, which was odd, because I know I had it at maximum …
apres cave
When you’ve ‘done’ with the caves at Buchan, what can you do? Well, there’s a very nice walk to a place called Granite Pools that’ll get your appetite up, but what do you do then? Well, we’d done the tourist walk through Royal cave – quite spectacular and beautiful – and then a good long …
dinosaurs
I’ve just seen the news report about a protest by Victoria’s Mountain Cattlemen – leading cattle, in defiance of the new laws, into the mountains in the Wonongatta Valley in the east of the state. I know it’s romantic, and it’s been going on for over a hundred years, but I’m afraid – at least …
the bridge that fell…
This is the section of The Westgate Bridge which fell while under construction on 15th October, 1970, killing 35 workers. We lived nearby and I was in school (grade 4) at the time, and I remember an announcement coming over the public address calling children whose fathers worked on the bridge to the office. Thought …
what I did on my holidays…
Back at the coalface today, bit of a letdown after a fabulous 11 day break. A relaxing Christmas with family and far too much good food, but a few other items of note. Fly Fishing: those of you who know me well, will be aware that I don’t get out fishing anywhere near enough to …
a two movie weekend
I’m not a big moviegoer, but circumstances saw me visit the wonderful Nova Cinema twice this weekend. First up was “The Constant Gardener“. I’ll admit to not being that keen to see this one. I found the book so sad that I thought it would spoil my enjoyment of the movie. Sure, the movie was …
measuremap : stats made easy
A couple of weeks back, I got my invitation to join the alpha test of measuremap. This was exciting, because I’d seen Jeff Veen give us a little preview talk about it at we05. It looked very nice then, so I was keen to get into it. It is the nature of statistics tools that …
auction stupidity
I get a laugh out of online auctions. Lots of people seem to add the words ‘online’ and ‘auction’ together and come up with = bargain! wrong!! Take this auction (no longer online) by traditional auction house Gray Edsell Timms at GraysOnline. It’s an auction of the hottest electronic toy around – iPods. Current models …
even more delicious
Today when I logged into del.icio.us I noticed things were a little different. It’s had a freshen up in the colours, but it’s the little interactive bits that make it so nice. I’m sure there are little, new changes each week, but it’s all done with such little fuss and so much finesse! Oh, and …