Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Down below us the massive shape of a condor was circling, its wings spread wide to catch the plentiful thermals.

Looking out across the Grand Canyon from near Bright Angel Lodge.

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
June 2007

The tiny figure of a man is dwarfed by the immense rockscapes of the Grand Canyon.

Looking out across the Grand Canyon from near Mather Point.

Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
June 2007

The first application at my Web 2.0 sandbox is now live.

Have a play with The Flickr UK Postcode Interestingness Weather Location Explorer. Give it a postcode, and it'll show you the weather at the location, along with the most "interesting" Flickr image it can find nearest the pinpoint on the map. I'm quite pleased by the self-expanding search area that expands each time it can't find an image...

(It's a mash-up of Google Maps, Google Local, WeatherBug, Yahoo! Pipes and Flickr written for a magazine article.)

Update: I left out one of the instructions: click on the pin to get the pop-up once the progress bar goes away...