Model Station
Another wonderful waste of time. A great long list of manufacturers and stockists of model cars and bits.
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Model Car
Daily archives: May 13, 2006
A great way to commute
Whilst waiting on Piccadilly on Wednesday I just happened to look out and see a hot air balloon. When I went outside to photograph it it turned out to be part of a flight of four drifting through clear blue skies over Manchester. It was just gorgeous in so many ways.
And earlier that day I found some more Space Invaders. I’ve posted one photo already (to Flickr), here’s the other.
Technorati tag: Balloon, Hot Air, Photos, Space Invader
Government failing on microgeneration
For all the talk from Tony Blair that “right throughout government, we put the question of sustainability at the heart of what we try to do” most ministries are dedicating none of their budget to local generation at their sites. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has dedicated £1.5million of this year’s budget to it, and the Department of Transport (DoT) has allocated cash to water recycling, but that’s it.
Stephen Tindale, the executive director of Greenpeace, compared this performance to the Surrey town of Woking which is working to cut carbon emissions by 77 per cent.
He added: “This is just another example of the yawning gap between New Labour’s rhetoric and reality. One of the first things Alistair Darling [the Transport Secretary] could do is to bash heads together around the cabinet table so ministers start setting an example. If Woking can do this, why can’t Whitehall?”
Technorati tag: Local generation, microgeneration, Whitehall, Tony Blair is a Liar
Somebody get me a Garmin!
I really, really want a GPS receiver now. And a handlebar mount for my bike.
The Mapchester GPS traces are being put up. I think this one’s mine. I’ll keep going back until they do an image of all the first day’s traces.
Technorati tag: Mapchester, Manchester, GPS
Pissotiere
Pissotiere,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
What a great word. It’s nice to know that it dumped straight into the medlock as well.
Technorati tag: moblog
Kelvin street
Kelvin street,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
I couldn’t map manchester without including my favourite little street.
Except some bastard has sand blasted the mural off the wall!
Technorati tag: moblog, Mapchester, Manchester, GPS
Geotagging in the rain
Geotagging in the rain,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
I probably look like a bus spotter, stopping every so often to make notes.
Technorati tag: moblog, Mapchester, Manchester, GPS
Mapchester
Mapchester,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
I’m about to learn how to use a gps, then they’ll set me free to map stuff.
Technorati tag: moblog, Mapchester, Manchester, GPS
Shouting into the darkness
It seems the Spinneyhead server is down. I’m going to keep on pushing stuff at it so that there’s a big glut of posts when it gets rebooted.
Technorati tag: Spinneyhead