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• RIBA Bookshops - Good Practice Guide: Keeping out of Trouble
  

  ‘…We all get it wrong from time to time and are aware of others mistakes, yet the evidence shows that we still never learn from these mistakes…’ - Who? Me?

(taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)

• blog.thoughtwax.com - Mapmaking and the archeology of the future
  

  ‘…While it’s technically interesting, impressive, geeky, and all that, I think it’s interface also illustrates a shift in what we’re perceiving maps to be…’

• cityofsound: Two possible Google Earth extensions: time and sound
  

  ‘…I could spend all day exploring this Google Earth, but it strikes me that there’s a couple of extensions I’d like to see…’

• Mike Liebhold Lecture
  

  ‘…Out of this teeming ecosystem, we can see the beginning shapes of a true geospatial web, inhabited by spatially tagged hypermedia as well as digital map geodata…’ with iPod video of lecture (via varnelis.net)

(taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)

Damn it. I missed an opportunity to enter a photography competition in BD magazine. The winners have just been published.

Developing nicely - 27 January 2006

What you see … is the fruit of the ninth BD/Zumtobel photo competition which gives Building Design readers the chance to show off their photo skills with nothing more than a disposable camera.

Because you sent in your cameras unprocessed, you don’t know how your snaps turned out, but our judges do. This is the cream of the crop.

Related entries: kids with cameras - 1 and 2.

(two disposable camera photo comps I’ve helped run recently)

Despite responding with this:

Curse you Mottram! It’ll give me something to do on the tram at least.

I shall take a leaf out of Anne’s book and show the latest meme some love. Why get grumpy when somebody takes the time to reach out and say hello?

Four jobs I’ve had:

1. Dish washer in a cafe that sold Stotties (£15 a week!)
2. Elderflower collector for a wine maker (not too smart for a hayfever sufferer)
3. mobile phone salesman (sales - best training for my career I ever had)
4. ride operator in an amusement park (Gee, I like your accent. Are you from Australia?)

Four films I can watch repeatedly:

1. Back to the Future I (What did I tell you?! 88mph!!!!)
2. Canonball Run (God is our co-pilot? Remember our car? 2 seats? Where’s he gonna sit?)
3. Any of the Indiana Jones movies (Ah, snake suprise!)
4. Fight Club (The first rule of…blah, blah, blah)

Four places I’ve lived:

1. oddly named places in the English countryside, such as: Bottesford in the Vale of Belvoir
2. in the shadow of the Aston Villa football ground
3. on the beach front in Santa Cruz (fond memories of the women’s beach volleyball tour)
4. a series of late Victorian terraces - thanks to my childhood fascination with Mr Benn.

Four television programmes I like to watch:

1. anything on BBC4
2. most things on MTV2
3. Coupling
4. Duck Dodgers

Four places I’ve been to on holiday:

1. Turkey
2. Barcelona
3. Tuscany
4. Florida

Four of my favourite dishes:

1. pancakes
2. any dessert prepared by my Mother
3. rice pudding
4. cheesecake

(main courses are mererly a vehicle to get you to dessert)

Four websites I visit daily:

1. mybloglog.com (I’m watching you!)
2. bloglines (I’m reading you!)
3. biroco.com
4. my wiki

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. in bed with Sarah
2. a world that hadn’t invented the internet yet
3. a world where independent coffee shops with big sofas and their own library could survive
4. climbing some rock

Four bloggers I am annoying:

1. Peter
2. John
3. Anon
4. Javier

Cheerio. AutoCAD is calling me.

Inspired by the latest entry at thingsmagazine.net, a link to Keith Berry’s wonderful photos of old Birmingham has reminded about some photos I uploaded last year.

King Kong on the move. He used to live in the city centre, then ended up on a car sales forecourt for a few years until the students at the architecture school rescued him for a party sometime during the 70’s. I understand he is still alive and kicking and stands guard over a market place up north somewhere. I’ll double check the story when I get to the office and speak to the photographer himself.

More Birmingham photo archives here: the car park on the roof.

• HassleMe
  

  ‘…Not eating enough fruit? Forgot to feed the fish again? Need a little help keeping your New Year’s resolutions? Tell us what to hassle you about, and we’ll nag you via email at semi-unpredictable intervals…’

(taken from my del.icio.us. linklog, broadcast using deloxom)

Weirdness continues. Cut me some slack while I get to grips with the aggregator that pulls together the words and pictures.

Comments are back on with better anti-spam measures thanks to help from Bill Ward. Currently naked due to lack of CSS but it’s a start. Unfortunately the widget that tells me you posted a comment is broke, so if you really need me to reply quick mail me instead.

I’m now filtering my linklog from del.icio.us more carefully so that you only get the choice cuts. Everybody say thank you to Brett for adjusting his deloxom plugin for me.

Normal service will resume shortly.

more BT tower posted for Kozika

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