James Thornett The views and opinions expressed here are my own and not those of the BBC, my employer.
Archive for May, 2007
Warning, re-design ahead!
Apologies if things go ever so slightly squiggly around here over the next day or so but I’m attempting a redesign which is so far proving just how rusty my CSS skills are.
Street View from Google
Thanks to the newest development from Google Maps and, one assumes, countless hours of people effort spent taking photographs across several of the biggest cities in the US, you can now stand outside of Macy’s and look around Union Square, San Francisco from the comfort of your PC. Take a look at the introductory video:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wuBqlny50] [...]
Who’s linking to my Flickr photos?
While trying to work out why my picture of Morecambe fans at Wembley on 20th May has had over 400 views on Flickr and my picture of the Exeter fans at the other end less than 100 views I stumbled across an interesting trick. Using Technorati’s search feature, enter your main Flickr photo page URL, [...]
NeighbourhoodFixIt.com: Local problem solving
I’m breaking a golden rule now and moving away from the world of cider, football, music and photography to mention something slightly more worthy, but definitely just as interesting. Tom Loosemore has posted an introduction to new civic society site Neighbourhood Fix-It on his blog at Tomski.com. Enter a postcode (e.g. B5 7QQ) and track [...]
Thatchers single varieties, Coxs and Spartan.
Back from holiday and desperately in need of a drink, another two ciders take the test. From the same Thatchers set of single variety ciders, similar to the previously reviewed Katy variety, these drinks are made purely from Coxs and Spartan apples. First, Coxs. A simple and stylish. yet rather boring label is only let [...]
