Canary Wharf by night.
After a nice dinner at Roka
Read MoreBandwidth vrs Latency
From the “things that kicked me in the arse” files. Everyone knows bandwidth. I have a 3 meg connection. you have 10meg. My phone has between 600k/sec and 2meg/sec depending on the cellsite. Whatever. Most people (ie, me) tend to forget about latency, especially when coming from desktop apps, which are generally very low latency, to mobile, while are usually …
Read MoreXKCD and London Bike App
I had to laugh at XKCD this morning. Thats nothing new, really, as it’s usually funny, but in this case, it was very appropriate. (Original is here. CC-BY-NC) It rings especially true for me at the moment. In London Bike App, I have put in a TFL scraper, but in order to make it work well, I have offloaded the …
Read MoreVisa “waver” program for the US just got crazy(er)
Warning: possibly-useful-to-others travel rant below. File this under ESTA CBP DHS Visa Waver Program Travel Promotion Act Update: looks like it’s just as bad if you are an American trying to come back to the US. OK, so it was nice a while back – after 11/9, up until 2005 or so. Just get on a plane to the US, …
Read MoreVatican tour
Half day tour around the Vatican. Interesting, even if from a “look at all the cool stuff we nicked from everyone else.” point of view. Sore feet tho. Highlights were Sistine chapel and St Peters cathedral. Wow. Just the scale was amazing.
Read MoreFontana del gianicola
View from Fontana del gianicola, roma.
Read MoreWhen in Roma…
Sorry. You might see that joke a few times this week….
Read MoreAugmented Reality: Gimmick? Useful?
I’ve been playing with a few Augmented Reality apps of late, on the iPhone, and frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. First there was the original iPhone Augmented Reality app, Yelp Monocle: And the Layer app, which is a kind of meta-browser where people can make their own layer and… um… layer it into the layer app, …
Read MoreThe Wapping Project
Tiltshiftgen and iPhone 4.1 HDR. Food and coffee here is brilliant too. E1W 3SG
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