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Don’t stand in front of this…

Ed Corkery — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:02:40 +0000

…when it’s making a loud whirring noise:

This particular A-10 is the sole prototype of the YA-10B, a two-seater model which never made it to production.

Domain names no longer necessary

Ed Corkery — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:19:43 +0000

A curious temporary road-side sign in Devonport a few months ago:

Despite the low-end design of the sign, I’m betting it was backed by a substantial Internet marketing budget spent on natural search rankings and Google AdWords.

I’m a Swiss tourist

Ed Corkery — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:22:33 +0000

Alex and Adelheid initially greeted me warmly as fellow Swiss tourists, probably due to my red+white t-shirt, short blonde hair, fleece, cargo pants and Austrian-designed glasses.

They made quickly for the sunset after hearing my accent.

“Alex? Adelheid? Don’t treat me like this ’cause I’m Kiwi!”

Human pixels in North Korea

Ed Corkery — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:15:33 +0000

Around the Auckland CBD

Ed Corkery — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:10:39 +0000

Took some time off to take photos around the Auckland CBD yesterday:

And some slightly older photos from January:

Ah, summer. Seems like it’s been so long.

V

Ed Corkery — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:16:52 +0000

Hot lizard lady

I watched the original V mini-series DVD yesterday. It was surprisingly good, leaving aside the predictably dated special effects. I missed many of the obvious Nazi references when it was originally played on NZ TV, including the swastika-like military emblem used by ‘the Visitors’. But then I was probably only 8.

Someone has uploaded the whole mini-series to YouTube:

GIS is dead! or “I want attention for my new blog”

Ed Corkery — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:46:43 +0000

Silliest thing I’ve read in quite some time:

The result is that the term GIS has become irrelevant. It is effectively dead — killed by lack of use and applicability by today’s map and data creators and users

On the contrary - use of the term GIS is on a dramatic rise amongst professional map creators. They may not know what GIS actually is, and they may not own GIS software, but they get the general drift of ‘professional mapping’. Therefore they understand that GIS is a desirable thing for them to follow in the future.

Koordinates posts now at blog.koordinates.com

Ed Corkery — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:17:08 +0000

Most Koordinates related posts will now appear on the Koordinates Blog. The latest post is a summary of Koordinates developments.

Wires, Windows and GMaps

Ed Corkery — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:07:30 +0000

I’m not sure if the wire on this church window sill is aimed at birds or humans:

But I wouldn’t want to grab it with my hands.

The location is St Patrick’s Cathedral Auckland (map). I helped Google out by moving the pushpin to a better location. The old one was near a road intersection.

Now that GMaps has edited entries and a photo layer, it’s becomng a more useful starting point than ‘normal’ Google or Wikipedia for certain searches. Google’s obvious goal for GMaps is to become the user-preferred first stop for searches on anything with a vaguely geographical element, ie replace encyclopedias + yellow pages + white pages + local pamphlets + local business directories + tourism guides etc. That’s a lot of potential local business advertising revenue.

I’m looking forward to Koordinates layers showing up in GMaps search results.

Koordinates on Twitter

Ed Corkery — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:35:03 +0000

Get Satisfaction now scans Twitter for keywords relating to company and product names and publishes the resulting tweets at a handy location.

Tweets about Koordinates are here: http://getsatisfaction.com/koordinates/overheard