This is what I had to learn the hard way:
Every camera has to die one day. And so did my lovely Chinon from the 70s on Sunday 18th September 2011 in Speakers Corner of Hide Park, London. Unfotuanatelly I did not know until today, when I got the film back from the lab. The film advance has been broken and all of my pictures [...]
I flew to Panama with Iberia, the Spanish airline. I seriously think these guyes should consider applying for Michelin stars. The food for being served on board was really good, 3 times over 10 hours of flight. I arrived in PTY airport at about 5pm local time. Passport check queue was so long, that we [...]
It really was one big party in London, thanks Misa. So I’ll just breiefly list the highlights: Being beaten in ping-pong about 20times in 2 hours and finally realizining that I can sweat from this sport. Riding the bike on the left side of the road. Turning right on crossroads. Being nearly overrun by a [...]
Wonderfull time in Dinamarca und DDR. See map and photos underneath. Best viewed in Google Maps or even better in Google Earth. Photos best viewed in Picasa Web Albums. Statistics: Overall map: View Larger Map Photos:
While reading Want to commit Facebook suicide? No, really, there’s an app for that! I came across a link to 100 years old essay Desintroductions by Ambrose Bierce which is truly brilliant. Short citation: Mr WHITE: Mr Black, knowing the low esteem in which you hold each other, I have the honor to disintroduce you [...]
GeoURL is a service that maintains list of web sites and their geographical coordinations. It is possible to search a site and get it’s location as well as search a location and get all nearby sites. However the results are not shown on map. There have been attempts to map results (see comments under GeoURL [...]
I wanted to do this myself, but first I searched, if somebody wasn’t faster. And there I found it. Complete kmz file for all Czech golf courses with some basic info like address, email and www of each course. It includes a bit of advertising for the map creators but I think this is much [...]
Update: This has been implemented at identitu.de. I’m not sure if the implementation details are exactly as described in this post, but they seem so. See (de)railed blog for details. Facebook does not officially support OpenID. But would the Facebook Platform make it possible for 3rd party developers to implement OpenID App on top of [...]
Google has done another big thing. They released the Street View feature for their maps. As with every google announcement the blogosphere is exited with a post about it every few minutes. And as with almost every google product people are asking if it compromises our privacy. Maybe, may be not. I don’t have a [...]