http://blog.j12.org musings of a bunny roaming the frontiers cyberspace Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:27:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last Sunday I wondered around some new streets called Ferry Gait in may area collecting the names and adding them to Open Street Map. They just were rendered since I last looked yesterday at it. I am quite pleased. A path from the Muirhouse Linear Park to them has just been ... http://blog.j12.org/2008/08/ferry-gait-street-added-to-open-street-map/ Found this map of post offices http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?mapid=92 but the 2 closest to me in Muirhouse and Pennywell are missing. I will have to check out where data is from and why this is. These post offices get a fair bit of custom and despite new round of post office closures they both should be ... http://blog.j12.org/2008/07/maps-missing-post-offices/ Just watched a presentation that I found very enlightening: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story-of-the-ribbon.aspx At work we have Office 2003 and at home I only use Koffice or OpenOffice.org but I find how they got to the new ribbon in Office 207 quite interesting, the stats of how commands used in office that they fed into ... http://blog.j12.org/2008/07/applications/ I think it would be good if human knowledge and accounts of events were added to glass bottles by engraving or have stored in form by raised lettering, code or pictures. These will last longer than paper or film. Bottles go all over the world many get recycled but ... http://blog.j12.org/2008/05/making-our-records-last/ After winter break I have started this week cycling to and from work. On my way back on Monday I saw the Heron under bridge from Fords Road over Water of Leith I had not seen him as far up as that and was closest I had seen him. He ... http://blog.j12.org/2008/04/cycling-again-addresses/ I have been reading a fair few books. The Machine that Changed the World - How Lean Production Revolutionized the Global Car Wars which I wanted to read after being fascinated by what I learned when I read Lean Thinking. I also got Lean Performance ERP Project Management which is not as readable ... http://blog.j12.org/2008/03/plenty-of-books/ I have been reading a book called: 'Plundering the public sector - How New Labour are letting consultants run off with 70 billion of our money' by David Criag and Richard Brooks which I find very worth reading especially for me details of the expensive failures of various government IT projects ... http://blog.j12.org/2007/12/making-the-same-mistakes-with-it-changes/ 2 weeks ago a street mapping party used Infoseed as a base, to go out and record gps traces to add to Open Street Map. I like this project creating more open distributable free information. I have not got a GPS device myself. I might get one at start of ... http://blog.j12.org/2007/09/mapping-futures/ I have recently started cycling to work; and found it to be quicker than I have to allow to get the bus as I had to get two buses. I am using the same bike I used to use in early 90s in Cambridge. It was originally my dad's. I ... http://blog.j12.org/2007/04/cycling/ I spend most winter looking forward to the spring equinox as I don't like darkenss of winter, and we passed it last week. The clock went forward last night so we get up eariler to give us more daylight when active. Yesterday with Ulla I visited St Andrews in Fife, ... http://blog.j12.org/2007/03/spring-entry/