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A Vodafone customer scam?

Published by on December 15, 2009

I received an SMS message today which was spam for a Vodafone MMS promotion, linking back to a page on the Vodafone site. Basically the message and the site urges you to upload photos and hopefully win prizes; they send you a daily sms with the topic and you take photos and upload them, all of which you pay for… Read more →

The other side of the TdF

Published by on July 20, 2009 | 1 Response

PezCycling News has an article showing the non-racing side of the Tour. The sponsors’ caravan must be an incredible sight in real life. Despite the massive presence of sponsors’ signage along the routes I find my self caught up in the racing and not focusing on the advertising. However, the sheer weight of that presence must work wonders on a… Read more →

Congratulations

Published by on May 23, 2009

The graduate and family Originally uploaded by wamblicious Danya graduated with a first-class honours science degree from Sydney University yesterday. It only seems like a little while ago that he first came down to Sydney and crashed on my couch for a few months. He’s grown in many ways since then, and it’s a real pleasure to see him honoured… Read more →

Georeferencing photos

Published by on January 16, 2009

Blue Knob Originally uploaded by wamblicious I was wandering along the Casino to Uki route using Google Earth, and realised that the only peak that matched the profile in this photo was Blue Knob. Homeleigh isn’t even really visible, as there’s another range in the way, from where I was riding. It was then I realised that I had a… Read more →

Fooling around with CCTV

Published by on May 19, 2008 | 3 Responses

Banksy CCTV, originally uploaded by kipricephotography. By now, everyone’s probably seen some version or other of the Banksy CCTV mural. This one has that nice “small thing being surveilled” angle. Now there’s a new twist. A band that was too poor to afford a music video clip, performed in front of CCTV cameras and then demanded the footage using Britain’s… Read more →

My new toy

Published by on May 15, 2008

Edge 705, originally uploaded by wamblicious. The new Edge 705 is available in Australia, finally. While it’s not perfect, it’s much better than the old 305. You can see the map screen, with the OzTopo Roads map being shown. I got it bundled with the maps from GPSOz, so I wouldn’t have to depend on the crappy default maps that… Read more →

Walking bike

Published by on May 4, 2008

The blog article says that its rideable. I guess that’s strictly true, but it’s certainly not useable as a real bike.

playgrounds that shouldn’t be

Published by on May 2, 2008

This (linked from Neil Gaiman’s blog), is a collection of very disturbing playgrounds. A lot are from soviet Europe, but a lot are not. It’s hard to choose between so much badness, but I find the following image captures the overall weirdness.

Flickr and Google Earth

Published by on June 5, 2007

I was reading the Google blog and found a link to a page where Dan Catt, who works for Flickr, has information about using the Flickr API to generate KML, which can then be opened in Google Earth. It doesn’t work so well in Google Maps, but if you create a network link in Google Earth you can get –… Read more →

How to use leftover concrete

How to use leftover concrete

Published by on May 13, 2006 | 2 Responses

While riding through Canada Bay, this morning, I saw the pictured monstrosity. I can just imagine the conversation between husband and wife starting as follows: Dear, you know how I had some concrete left over? Guess what.

Cute pet photo

Cute pet photo

Published by on March 16, 2006

I was looking through the collection of photos on the phone (a capability I’d forgotten about on the last day of the ride), when I found this: it’s a rainy day, and Ripley’s stuck inside.

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