Ever since Google launched their maps service the direction code has pretty much sucked. Thankfully a long over due feature has now been added - draggable directions!

I think it’s safe to say Google now has other UK/European routing services like the AA and RAC beat. As for Streetmap, welcome to 1999!

Celebrities don’t look as good in person.

I am still alive but am in the process of revamping this blog (a bit).

For the second time this year I’ve rebooted my Linux box only to have it “kernel panic” on boot with a load of unrecoverable disk errors, bah! (just as I got subversion up and running again too)

So I hopped on to Dabs this morning and ordered myself a new hard drive (taking the opportunity to sample Seagate’s latest offering, with perpendicular storage no less!). Every time I buy a new hard drive I’m amazed at how much storage you can get for your money, I went for a 320GB drive for a mere £70!

Of course with a new disk I’m greeted with a new OS install (and recovering what data I can from the old drive!). I think I’ll give Debian another run as that’s the distribution of choice at Evolving Media.

I also wanted to play around with Creole, having read up on code generation a fair bit recently I stumbled across Propel (which uses Creole as a DB abstraction layer). However with no Linux machine I’ll take the time to catch up with some reading while I wait for my new drive to arrive…

I’ll get down to actually writing some code again one of these days!

This stuff will fly off the shelves in a few years!