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Love Trams? I’m from Melbourne, Australia one of the cities in the exclusive club of towns with trams as part of their everyday public transport system. So I love em and I’ve just found an unusual site that celibates my town, its city streets and its Trams. Its the “lovely” Pancake Parlour web site. Hmmm Pancakes… & Trams.

I was in my mid teens when I first met CSIRAC - the forth computer in the world and the first in Australia. I was doing work experience at a video production house that was producing promotional materials for the release of the latest BBC computer (not the original BBC Model A produced by Acorn Computers Ltd) Down-Under. They wanted some photos of an old computer to show how far we had come and I ended up at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (as it was then - now Monash Uni, Caulfiled Campus) with my trusty Polaroid where I found CSIRAC in a sorry state in a cage on a landing in pieces. Thankfully since then CSIRAC has found a home at the Museum of Victoria. One of CSIRAC’s more interesting claims to fame is that it was the first computer in the world to play music.

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One must always remember to dot your “t”s and cross your “i”s otherwise we could end up with erribly errifying errorists raversing asmania in a ransit van.

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Gorgeous sculptures by Peter Klashorst [blogspot].

Google Maps is great and for a long time now I have wanted to be able to leverage the  Google map technology for my own evil porpoises (Phocoena scelus). Well now I can and so can anybody thanks to the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. They have produced a nice program called the Google Map Image Cutter which can be used to slice and dice any large image into Google map segments and will also produce a web page with a Google map viewer embedded in it. Whilst the program is very simple I recommend looking over the readme file before you start playing. The program is written in Java and I can report from experience that it runs fine on XP and OS 10.4.

It’s been around a while but Dick Hardt’s OSCON 2005 keynote is such a good presentation I really wanted to blog it for no other reason then to have a record of it for myself. If you are interested in Dick’s presentation style you should also check out his ETech 2006 presentation entitled “Who Is the Dick on My Site?”.

I have final got around to adding some new images to my Everyday Images album.