Tom Goskar

Freelance consultant for digital heritage

Category: Random

  • Spiders and eBay

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    My curiosity got the better of me today when I opened my Netvibes homepage to see the Digg headline of “HUGE Spider Hides Behind Clock (pics)“. I followed the link, and sure enough, there’s a story of a huge huntsman spider hiding behind a clock, with just four hairy legs poking out from around the…

  • Google is Expecting!

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    I’ve just heard that Google have a “bun in the oven” and expect to add ‘PowerPoint’ presentation functionality to Google Docs and Spreadsheets later this summer. Google have acquired Tonic Systems‘ java based technology to do this and are currently working on integrating it with the rest of the ‘Google Office’ (although they don’t seem…

  • Google Maps API now supports GeoRSS and KML

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    Google has just announced that the Google Maps API now supports GeoRSS and KML. This is going to make the creation of Google Maps applications so much easier, given that Google Earth exports KML, and GeoRSS is becoming more widely used. They seem to have made some efficiency tweaks too, as a few examples that…

  • If only train companies were this honest

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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } If only train companies were this honest, originally uploaded by T.A.G.

  • Naples and Herculaneum

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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Casa Bottega, Herculaneum, originally uploaded by T.A.G. This photo of the Poseidon and Amphitrite mosaic in Casa Bottega, Herculaneum, Italy, was taken with a Sony Ericsson k750i camera phone. I took…

  • First Post

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    I’ve set up this blog so that I can write about anything and everything that I have wanted to recently. My blogging started with Past Thinking (as of 2021 no longer active – archive available), which is rapidly becoming a blog that is focussed upon heritage issues related to technology. I used to post random…