The dearest and I did the crazy stunt last year where you flog the gaff, put all the loot in the Bank(s) , then use the interest to rent somewhere ‘well posh’ until you find the bestest ever place to live.  Of course this also turned us into a ‘cash buyer with clout’  just like the programs on [...]

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This took me back to my college days and then some … an 8 minute clip of how the backbone of the Internet evolved…

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Funny how you sometimes miss stuff that is right under your nose. iOSMaps is a case in point – a natty little free iphone/iPod Touch app that displays Ordnance Survey OpenSpace data and does all the whizzy postcode and place name search bits too. OK, so it’s lacking in the imagery views you’ll seen in other iPhone viewers but considering this has been written [...]

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21:54 – And hello to Ed in California, shucks I’m no longer Billy no mates…. Minor teething troubles -  according to Duncan whose been watching me this evening I’ve managed to travel from the New Forest to Germany and back in just over 90 minutes, to me it just seemed like a trip to local [...]

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If you know me and fancy having a play with google’s Latitude service please PM me your gmail account address so I can send you an invite or visa versa, currently I am Billy no mates! 18:54 – well that worked, hello to Duncan, John C and Rob in Kent!

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‘Simes’ sent me a link to Walk Score today, a site that promotes healthy living by suggesting places to walk to. Living on the Western side of Southampton water I typed in my post code and Walk Score suggested  a number of nearby places that I could walk to.. providing I didn’t mind a quick [...]

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I’d mentioned back in September 2008 that google maps has found my location by triangulating against some local WiFi access points which had previously been geo-tagged by technology such as Skyhook. Nokia Research in Helsinki appear to be following a similar path to a point where you can theoretically gecode people and moving objects! (No doubt we’ll be barcoding our kids next..)

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