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Six points of view of six hours on the farm. It’s probably better in HD. And yes, I needed a reboot towards the end of the day.

I think I forgot to write this up. Oops. A few weeks ago I made a tool for making geo microformats. You plonk in a location, some text, drag the pin around and it generates you the appropriate HTML. That’s it really. It’s called the Magical Microformat Maker, and you might like it if you regularly blog about places and stuff in them.

I’ve just written up some notes for my 5 minute teaching gig for the School of Everything at 2gether08. It was entitled “Eight Ways to Orientate Yourself Anywhere” - a quick look at navigation hacks to help you find your way. I’m told there’s a video of it looming.

ATMs are now back up and running in iamnear using the Multimap API. It’s not quite as comprehensive as the LINK Locator, but it’s better than nothing.

I’ve just finished putting up my talk, Delighting with Data, from Oxford Geek Night 7. Those of you who attended and are sharp will notice that this is not a verbatim transcription of what I said, thank god. That would be terrible. This is instead my notes, written up properly to make more sense.

I cycle across Tower Bridge every day. This is a snippet of my route back. The camera ran out of battery - I’ll get my full route tomorrow.

You may have noticed that ATMs and Post Offices no longer work in iamnear. The LINK Locator somehow managed to jumble up its AJAX hell even more - making the loophole I outlined previously impossible.

However, they shall return! ATMs coming from Multimap’s new API, and Post Offices from a FOI request (I hope). Until then, sorry.

Just a quick heads up. I’m speaking in Oxford tomorrow night at Geek Night 7. I’ll be waffling about Delighting with Data - making beautiful things through munging data. A quick tour through interesting projects, how they work and why I think they’re beautiful.

The rest of the line up looks great, so get yourself along if you’re in the area. Upstairs in the Jericho Tavern from 7pm.

I’ll stick the talk up here when it’s done.

It seems that a lot of people have never seen Tower Bridge open and close. So here it is, sped up so you don’t get bored.

Here’s a small video from this afternoon’s messing around with timelapse photography. It’s quite fun - I’ll do some more sometime, but with better clouds. It looks better on the Vimeo site - the embedded videos aren’t HD.