travel
WWDC 2007
In a few hours, I’m off to the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. A whole week of unlimited Mac fun, learning, meetups, sessions, labs, meeting people and seeing San Francisco for the first time. If you’re there and would like to meet, call me. Or use the contact form. Or the comments [...]
Wikipedia entries for GPS
Today I saw this: Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth. It has coordinates for Google Earth for 52 175 English Wikipedia entries. So when you tarvel around in Google Earth, you get lots of clickable entries from Wikipedia. Very useful! Which reminded me of something I thought about this summer while driving around Norway with [...]
Write in your books
Kottke links to a new series from Moleskine: City guide books with lots of blank pages for your notes, adresses, stories and drawings. Great idea! I wish more books came with blank pages. More space for notes. Books like “Blink” and “Freakonomics” – books that triggers tons of ideas as I read them. Maybe Moleskine [...]
Japan #3: Did J. K. Rowling visit Kyoto?
I visited Kyoto, Japan lately. We walked the “The Philosopher’s Trail” in Kyoto, a walk next to the river in Kyoto, with lovely Sakura hanging over you. . A bit down the trail we found these rocks dressed with pieces of cotton: . So my daughter (for whom I have read the six Harry Potter [...]
Japan #2: Cherry blossoms
The Japanese sign for “Sakura” (meaning cherry blossoms) looks like this: It shows a woman (the sign to the lover right), wearing a hair ornament next to a tree… Go to Japan in April. Visit cities like Kyoto, Nara and Himeji. You’ll see beautiful trees with white and pink flowers.
Japan #1: Red in Japan
Have a look at the “Red in Japan” photoset at Flickr. My favorites are these two: …which is a temple pole (a huge one!) inside a temple in Kyoto, and… …which is…? Can you guess?
Hotel room secret
I’ve just posted my first Hotel room secret.
Back from Japan
I’ve spent two wonderful weeks in Japan. Not much time for posting, but I’m writing now. A lot. Check back for lots of text and photos from Japan soon.
Adding GPS data to your photos
Eirik blogs about a trip to France where he stored GPS points everytime he took a photo. Back home he merged the GPS information with the photos, and made an interactive map of the trip. Nice! Now, what if there was an easy way to do what Eirik has done? EXIF to the rescue As [...]
Get the best seats – always
Always have Seatguru open in a tab or window when you book your seats on a flight. Excellent site with pictures of seats on most major airlines. It lists which seats that have power, more space for your legs etc.
