Phil Wylie

WordPress developer, Code Club volunteer & Staffs Web Meetup organiser

August 31, 2006 — 1

Flickr Geotagging

What a great idea, sort your photos by their location! Perhaps Yahoo! maps offers greater detail in its native America, I can say that the UK coverage is poor, bordering on unusable! For instance, I thought I’d tag one of my holiday photos taken in Otford, the street map contains the motorway but very little else, so to pinpoint the exact location I thought the satellite view would help, and here comes the disappointing part… the satellite photo was either horribly out of date, or wasn’t even a image of Otford!

Me and Nick wondered why the system wasn’t based around Google Maps, then we remembered Flickr is owned by Yahoo! No-brainer 😐

So currently only three of my photos are geotagged! But still it’s an amazing idea, and its caught on, within 24 hours 1,234,384 photos were tagged by location!

August 17, 2006 — 1

AS Exam Results

Met up with Nick, Vickers and Adam today to collect our AS results from college. In no particular order, my results were:

  • General Studies: C
  • Sociology: C
  • Use of Maths: E 😐
  • Business Studies: C
  • ICT: C
August 17, 2006 — 0

Flickr & del.icio.us

Flickr’s been around for a while, it’s a popular web2.0 application, used to share photos. I’ve never had the will to sign up, perhaps because I’ve never needed photo sharing capabilities before!

This move to embrace some of the popular web2.0 services was brought on while messing about customising this WordPress blog, I enabled some of the sidebar widgets, including the Flickr and del.icio.us plug-ins.

I decided “what’s the worst that could happen?” – I’ll go and signup. So impressed by the number of options and the sheer AJAXy power of Flickr, I decided to become a Pro member! However del.icio.us was a little more disappointing, I can see the general idea behind social bookmarking, but it simply doesn’t appeal to me. Nevertheless I will continue my attempt to become more web2.0!

I’m writing this post from Flickr, and in case you’re wondering who that guy is, its Mr Tom Vickers!

August 16, 2006 — 0

Get your Windows Vista Beta 2 CD for FREE

Looks like Microsoft are giving away free Vista CD’s if you can answer a small quiz. I hope it isn’t like the free USB flash drives that was posted a while ago…

read more | digg story

Update – 03/12/2013
You’re looking at an ancient post shared from Digg. Obviously this offer is no longer around and the page long gone. The Internet Archive has a copy of the original Digg post including comments. Little did I know Vista was going to be such a flop, I remember installing and really liking it!
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