“Here’s something quite sinister for armchair conspiracy theorists: it appears that US prez George Bush has final approval on the the UK version of Google Maps and has decided to redesign the world in a way that more adequately reflects his own particular vision.” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/29/google_bush_map
Monthly Archives: April 2005
South Florida Underwater Photography Society
“The South Florida Underwater Photography Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of underwater photography through its membership. “ http://www.sfups.com/about_us.cfm
More Ryanair Stories
“Ryanair, the leading European low-cost airline, reversed on Monday its previous guidance for a steep fall in average fares this winter and announced much better-than-expected financial results for its third quarter” http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7a45eda0-735e-11d9-b705-00000e2511c8.html Maybe the best one yet… “A Ryanair pilot has asked the High Court to imprison his company’s Chief Executive Michael O’Leary for suspending him in breach of an injunction.” http://www.rte.ie/business/2005/0414/ryanair2.html
Damaged cruise ship back in New York
“A cruise ship struck by a freak seven-story-high wave that smashed windows and sent furniture flying returned to New York Harbor on Monday and docked at its berth on the Hudson River.” http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/04/18/ship.diverted.ap/index.html
A photograph from Chania
Bon Coiffure, barber shop signs from West Africa
“Indigo Arts presents a collection of painted signboards from barber shops and hair-dressers in Ghana, Mali, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, and Togo.” http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_barbersign_main.html
High Court Asked to End Religious Teatime
“Government says New Mexico Christian group’s ceremonial drink violates federal controlled substance laws” http://www.law.com/teatime.html
Photo Noise, Internet Art by Steven Read
this is interesting if dubious from a copyright point of view http://www.stevenread.com/photonoise/index.php
Ryanair charges £4 for tap water
Size matters to the Royal Mail
The Royal Mail’s controversial proposal to introduce size-based pricing. http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=215829
Google Sightseeing
Google Sightseeing takes you to the best tourist spots in the world via Google Maps’ satellite imagery. http://www.googlesightseeing.com
2 Bees pictures — Morocco
Travel News
Peru calls on U.N. funds
“Peru will submit a $132.5 million plan to the United Nations’ cultural body on Tuesday to preserve the famous Inca citadel, Machu Picchu, from the ravages of tourism” http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/04/12/machupicchu.reut/index.html
Some Ryanair stories
Ryanair refuses order to quote all-inclusive fares
"Ryanair this week said it would continue to defy advertising authorities which insist the airline include taxes and charges when emailing customers with its latest offers”
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10295-1516446,00.html
Ryanair Web site row takes off
"Ryanair is attempting to discover the identities of pilots said to ha= ve made remarks about the airline on a Web site”
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050330/152/ffblp.html
Ryanair takes action over website
"A legal battle has begun at Ryanair over a website set up, according to unions, to help "hard-pressed" pilots working for the Irish bu dget airline exchange information about their working conditions”
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10295-1547290,00.html
email posting test
Well I’m now up and running on wordpress, and have set up the modified wp-mail.php email posting hack (http://blade.lansmash.com/?p=156#comments and http://www.economysizegeek.com/?cat=13), so I have every thing blogger gave me but faster. I even got all the old posts transferred over without much hassle. The only fixes I’d like with wp-mail.php are with the conversion of URLs to links and emailing images but these should be fixable faster then waiting on blogger to sort things out, so it looks like it may be bye bye to Hello (http://www.hello.com) as I can post with greater flexibility by email.