Most interesting usage of the Guardians geotagging feature todate; the geotagged recession tag page.
We implemented the geotagging and map featured to support the US elections road trip blog but quietly made sure the same features would work for any Guardian tag. We then stood back to see if the editors would come up with something interesting.
Results for the Kent Coastal marathon are in.
2h 10m to the halfway mark and out to 15 miles before stopping running for the first time.
Walked home from the turn at 20 miles for a finishing time on 5h 13m.
Overheard in the boat house this morning while discussing seat assignments:
bisweptual – In rowing (Sweeps, not sculls), it is the ability to row on both the port and starboard side.
ie. Someone who swings both ways.
Matt and I hosted the work outing in the country (well Richmond Green at least) this Sunday.
The city dwellers were introduced to the simple pleasures of croquet and mucking around in small boats.
You’re reminded that you’re not in New Zealand anymore when one of your workmates informs you that they
“used to play this in school” and they actually know all of the rules.
A bad hair day.
I’d finally come to the conclusion that the speck on all of my recent photos, wasn’t something on the lens.
It’s always in exactly the same place, regardless of the rotatation and zoom setting of the lens.
Apparently this is something paricular to digital SLRs. Like a normal SLR, dust can get into the camera body when you change the lens. However unlike a 35mm, where the dust might settle onto one frame of film, a speck of dust on the digitial sensor will obscure every shot.
Monkeying with sophisticated kit isn’t really my thing, so I sort advise.
Camera retailer Jessops tried to change the standard chargeof 140 Pounds for sending the camera away for servicing. That’s about a third of the cost of the camera; not very helpful. It’s not broken; it just needs a good clean.
Two points of order.
- No I didn’t purchase insurance, but this isn’t an out of warantee repair; it’s a routine servicing which I’m more than happy to pay for. At the time of purchase, your staff stated that the procedure costs in the region of 50 Pounds. I’d budgeted for that and considered my past experience with Canon gear (it’s indestructable) when making my decision on insurance.
- “Take it to Tottenham Court Road; it would have been free if you had brought insurance” isn’t exactly the expert advice I’d expected from a national retailer. A contact for a Canon service centre would have been more useful.
In the end Google and photo.net provided the required information, with references.
Fixation, in Vauxhall will do the job while you wait for 25 Pounds. They even cleaned the grubby UV filter and returned the camera in a sealed plastic bag. They’ve completely removed the offending dust.
Brilliant.
That’s it; point of no return reached. I’m now officially priced out of my own country.
Time to close the NZ bank account and stop reading the newspapers I guess.
I’m out of the county. Heading home for some serious rehab.
Traveling via Hong Kong.
Should be abit different.
It snowed again this morning in London,
recking havoc with transport and prompting this District Line Tube Driver announcement:
“The Piccadilly Line is currently suspended.
Piccadilly Line passengers on the cold platform are adviced to take this
loverly, nice, warm District Line train.”
The weekend newspaper free give away war rages on…
The Guardian’s Circularation Team has giving as good as they get with free DVDs and the hugely successful Wall Chart campaign.
However, this weekend we’re apparently giving away a ‘Free Whale’.
Top that one Daily Mail.
Ok… it’s not actually a whole whale, but the first public exhibation of the skeleton of the Thames Whale is to be held at the Guardian offices.
It’s been the subject of much speculation around the office as to how we managed to swing this one. Someone must know someone.
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