This snowy image of the UK on 7th January looks amazing:
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response. From BBC News
And I love this little story:
Plymouth Ski Centre at Marsh Mills was forced to close on Wednesday due to the icy conditions.
(from bbc news)
What?!
I really enjoyed the BBC radio programme Archive on 4 – In the Beginning Was the Nerd by Stephen Fry. It is great retrospective in the ridiculousness of the Y2K panic ten years ago and a broader reflection on society’s relationship with and attitudes to computing in the C20. I was working in Local Government [...]
So I have started to use Prezi.com (a ‘cloud’ based presentation tool) as I have been interested in any alternative to slide based presenting. The real test was my presentation at AGI Geocommunity. So far it has been well received by audiences and I am enjoying the ’single canvas’ format.
An introduction video is here.
My thoughts [...]
So I have made a (rather late as usual) defection:
I went for the 15-inch 2.66GHz Mac Book Pro
So some thoughts after a few weeks are:
I feel like a poseur on the train/plane
I’ve dropped it once and it survived. Phew!
I love the slim form (it slides into my bag nicely)
Windows 7 is really just [...]
I have decided to move on from Microsoft and Infusion. I have had a great time with Multimap, then Microsoft (and Infusion), over the last two years and learned a load, but it is time to make a geographical and company move.
I am moving my base to Innsbruck (to spend more time in the mountains [...]
A Morse Code iPhone app that can encode and decode. Pity no one uses Morse Code any more…
For me Diana’s Cafes in Innsbruck is the perfect blog. It has a simple purpose and theme, it has considered opinions and even has maps. Oh, and I love cake and coffee!. Perfect.
Keep it up Diana, you have many more cafes to visit…
Toronto airport waiting to board a delayed Air Canada flight:
(click image for full size version).
Made using Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE).
In homage to Ed Parson’s more glamorous travel panos!
For example:
from the BBC.
My colleague Alexis Harakis has recently started blogging and has done a great post independently analysing Bing search. He seems to have selflessly spent a lot of time checking out the quality of porn searches! However he does present a very valid argument about the significance of these searches commercially.
