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Saturday, 23rd May 2009

Kiwi

Kiwis in the wild, a photoset

Taken by torch light on a night time Kiwi tour on Stewart Island.

12:14 am / 4 photos


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Dunedin, a photoset

We took a wildlife tour of the Dunedin peninsular, including a trip to the world's only mainland albatross colony and some close encounters with yellow-eyed penguins and terrifying New Zealand sea lions.

12:25 am / 40 photos


JS-Placemaker—geolocate texts in JavaScript. Chris Heilmann exposed Placemaker to JavaScript (JSONP) using a YQL execute table. Try his examples—I’m impressed that “My name is Jack London, I live in Ontario” returns just Ontario, demonstrating that Placemaker’s NLP is pretty well tuned. 0 12:36 am

iPlayer usage, for streaming, peaks about 10pm—just a little later from TV. But interestingly, iPlayer on the iPhone peaks at about midnight. So people are clearly going to bed with their iPhone and watching in bed. And we also see on the weekends, there’s a peak of Saturday and Sunday morning usage at about 8 to 10am in the morning on iPhone.

Anthony Rose 2 12:42 am

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Brighton back passage tour, a photoset

Brighton has some fantastic alleyways and passages scattered around. We went on the back passage tour during the Brighton Festival, and tracked our trip using Trails on the iPhone.

5:06 pm / 74 photos


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