Cell phone test - blogging from my Blackberry

This is a test to see if I can enter a blog from my Blackberry 8830 cell phone. Albeit fairly hard work on this little keypad it seems to work!! I'm using OPERA as the mobile web browser in the 'compact view mode'.

Got to admit, I'm pretty impressed that the technology works this well. It looks like this full browser allows me to continue with my text blogging at least. I don't think I'll be doing photo uploads though!

Street View - Google's Orwellian Society

I was looking at Street View after seeing an online advert the other day and thought about the issues this is going to cause. There have been many complaints in the UK about privacy due to all the Street Cameras watching people. Now it looks like this is happening in California and the USA.

Apparently in California it is illegal to publicly record someone and broadcast it without their consent (I would like reference to this). I know it is illegal to record someone's voice over the telephone without their permission.

Anyway Big Brother Google is watching....

Map editing

Man oh Man, today has been spent setting up the little Google map thingy. Pretty painful and has taken me most of the day. I'm using a Java Script which was obtained from http://n01se.net/gmapez/. Unfortunately it doesn't work very well with the Blogosphere since it expects all the keys to be passed down as parameters. As a result I've had to edit the Java Script and save it with a specific key for this site.

Since I've got it working though it's a really nice tool. I just update a list of GPS co-ordinates in my blog and you'll be able to see where I am (or was!).

Anyway thanks to the guy who wrote this script in the first place. Please visit him here. I'll make my stuff available to him so that everyone else can use his great mapping tool. Also thanks to Google for having such an awesome map tool. Really Cool.