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Little Saigon – one of life’s little pleasures.

( shank )

Melbourne is a great city. One of my favourite weekend jobs is to take my son to Little Saigon.  He calls it the Mango Market –  for the past few weeks we’ve been stuffing our faces with mango each time we go there – I never realised there were so many varieties of mango! It’s [...]

Some Favourites from FOSS4G 2009

( chuck )

It’s been about a month since FOSS4G in Sydney and I’ve been trying my best to not spend anytime doing GIS related stuff other than my day job – partly because my wife is sick to death of me spending time wedded to my laptop and not to her. Anyway – I have a pack [...]

Finding Reality

( rib )

Recently I’ve been doing some ‘gardening’.  You can see this clearly from these images on NearMap…. What’s really special about NearMap apart from the fact they are updating imagery more often than I am at home is that they have integrated OSM into their viewer and you can use their data to update OSM: “We [...]

Portrait

( chuck )

Recently I was honored  enough to have my portrait drawn by an old friend.  It’s very accurate. The artist is also a keen wine buff: