March 2009
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“London’s unique beauty, splendour and energy is truly illuminated in...”
– Boris Johnson, quoted in a typically sensational Evening Standard story about Google launching Street View.
Edit: Turns out, there’s a special selection of views by the Mayor (well, probably his office). I’m not sure this one is that inspiring, though.
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“There are none of the usual Windows and Intel stickers - a fact the Dell staffer...”
– Darren Waters, Does Dell covet Apple’s design status? | BBC NEWS - dot.life
“Underside”. “Hidden from view”. Not actually, you know, not there at all.
Edit: Nice website you have there, chaps.
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iPhone/Music/Biometrics
Taking Playlists To The Next Level
I decided to walk the 1.3 miles from the station to the office to enjoy the weather. Upon making this decision, as if by magic, my ipod decided to play U2 - Beautiful day. “Clever iPod!” I thought.
No, not really. But why not?
BPM
maybe I was a little swayed in my choice by the fact that it’s one of the heart rate monitors sported by Edward Norton in the 2008...
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Two Short Walks
It feels like forever since I was the sort of person who’d walk north to south across London in a single column of the A-Z, or from Barnsbury to Limehouse at 6am in December.
However, I seem to be getting my feet back, slowly. Yesterday I did nearly three miles to Crooked Billet, and another one after a cheeky bus down the Chingford Road, which produced some (posted) photos of the North...
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Being a list of North Circular buses
Being a list of buses whose routes run alongside or on the North Circular, clockwise from Hangar Lane to Woolwich. Note that some buses may leave the road (especially at gyratories or other junctions) or run parallel to it.
112 (Harrow Road - Brent Cross, and southbound onyly Abbey Road - Hangar Lane)
232 (Hendon Way - Bounds Green Road, Pinkham Way - High Road (Wood Green))
184 (Pinkham Way -...
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Keyboard Navigation In Tumblr
For a while, I’ve had a small bit of JavaScript into the templates of notes.husk.org that enables vi/ffffound/Google Reader style navigation with the j and k keys. Hit ‘j’ and the page will scroll to the next entry; ‘k’ and it will move to the previous one. It even handles paging (well, paging with j, anyway).
It’s not very complicated code, and (unlike the...
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“We may be whirled from Richmond, Wimbledon and Highgate by ships such as Jules...”
– From the archives, 6 March 1890: An electric subway in London | From the Guardian (via teflon)
Full of goodness, this. “In South London difficulties are so great that passengers grumble incessantly. Tramcars and omnibuses can only convey their passengers at little more than walking... 