Thursday, May 29, 2008

Italian Spiderman Movie - Episode 1

Thank god for creative Adelaide film-makers.

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Geocoding, Google Earth and Work

So I'm pretty excited at the moment, as we're finally rolling out our geocoding extras for our work application, ValEx.

This means you can see any of the 3.6 million or more Australian addresses we know about in Google Earth; search by proximity; find comparible sales to your subject property; or see your appointments for the day.

Frankly, it's all kind of amazing.

However all of that was just swept from my mind by Google Earth is embeddable in your browser.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Death by Facebook

Every now and then the internet surprises you. I just found out a friend from high school is dead, by Facebook.

Since high school wasn't the most pleasant thing in the world to endure, I've dropped out of touch from most, so I didn't hear.

Goodbye Kane, I hope you had a good run.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Samsung YP-U3 - horrible

Someone I live with ended up buying one, because she wanted to listen to music.

All of the marketing indicated that a Samsung YP-U3 could simply be stuck into any old USB slot, and off you go.

Unfortunately, that's completely not the case. Unless you install Windows Media Player 10 or higher; the stupid thing won't install.

How annoying, and stupidly designed.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

PEPR, XML_GRDDL and Digg's RDFa

So, Digg got RDFa all over the place.

That's pretty handy since I've just moved XML_GRDDL to a call for votes.

Why, you ask? Because you can have instant RDF from digg in a few lines of code (tip: you want to grab xml_grddl from SVN at the moment).