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An easy way of create polar worlds of your local area (or any where google streetmap has been!)

I have previously written about how to transform a panoramic image into a polar or stereographic image using photoshop or gimp, but the other day I stumbled upon a nice little github project that utilises the panoramic images generated from …

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Using Google Earth and Garmin Basecamp to plan bike and walking routes

There are a number of resources on the web that allow people to share GPS route information about mountain bike and trekking/walking routes. However, sometimes the route isn’t exactly what you want – perhaps you want to change the start, …

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Lhasa, place of the gods

IMG_0337The flight from Beijing to Lhasa was pretty uneventful – thankfully.  Upon arrival the usual farce of finding my transfer begins – the only difference here is that I have to get a specific transfer as no independent travel is …

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Diving around Moyo Island

A distinct lack of people in the immediate vicinity, Moyo promises some fantastic diving Continue reading

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getting to the top of google

is harder than you think – especially when there’s a bloody company called john mason!…. So far, johnmason is returning a position number 4 and “john mason” is number two on the sponsored links (freebie service from naymz.com) but nowhere …

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Proof of boarding!

Slainte… I’ve ordered mine in today (guiness that is.!!) and my snowboard bag turns up. Hidden deep in the bag is the proof of some boarding. Luckily, I’d decided to test out my little GPS tracker on the first run …

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