20th Century Icons
In the science museum, next to the Apollo module!
- Taken at 11:38 AM on December 30, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Not everyone got a Wii
- Taken at 11:53 AM on December 25, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Christmas Lights & New Year’s Resolutions
Many people try and work the xmas lard off by doing something silly like joining a Gym. They then spend a couple of weeks humiliating themselves in the presence of lots of sweaty muscle Marys and then give up.
Me, I’ve done gone and got meeself I mega bike light. It’s a Hope Vision Epic and you it strap it to your hat (or bike) and go charging about in the dark. I say dark, but the Hope Vision, although tiny, illuminates the road like a car light. Owls, deer and all manner of wildlife flee as you swoosh through the woods.
The only down side of course is that if you do decide to wear it on your hat you can look at bit of tit.
It was a night before xmas…
The beer has arrived, thanks Santa!
- Taken at 6:03 PM on December 20, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Remember the Milk for Gmail
The Remember the milk boys have released a firefox plugin that adds your RTM to dos along side your Gmail. If you are UK based you have to use the US version of gmail for it to work, as the new version of gmail has not been rolled out to the UK yet. Just go into settings and change location. It’s just fab. 
633 Squadron
“Ahh, brilliant! Loving’ the hat, can I have a go? Makes me look like one of the Norwegian resistance blokes in 633 Squadron or may be Richard Burton in “Where Eagles Dare”.
“633 Squadron, oh it was like a film when I was a kid and ummm. Richard Burton? oh he was an Actor and I’m not good in hats to be honest. Did I tell you about when our cat crapped in my Deputy Dog hat?”
St Pancras
Choo choo train to Skaville
- Taken at 11:36 AM on December 03, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
Google Maps and Location awareness
So the mobile blogsphere has been all awash with the news that Google has added location awareness to its Google Maps for Mobile.
People are speculating how they have done this. It could be they have their own database of cell-ids that they are builing up by combining it with GPS information or that they have done deals with operators or maybe both.
I hope that this is all done independently and Google are able to share this with independent developers. To date, location based apps were dependent on going thru a third party aggregator to get to the operators locations apis. These were so expensive per call that most location based apps have failed at the drawing board. If the a cell-id database was in the public domain then finally location based apps would become a distinct possibility.
Of course as someone who has sat at the back with his coat on at a thousand presentations on “20xx is the year for mobile” I aint holding my breath.
As for the application itself, does it work? Well yes mostly, when you open the app (I am using a Sony K800i) it has a stab at locating you and gets within 2000 metres most of the time. Out here in the country it gave up a couple of times and I imagine the cells are quite big, but still not bad at all.
I’d reccomend you have a go and I think it even works on the odd Crackberry too.