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Transport Scotland/ ScotRail refuse plaque marking Jordanhill Station as subject of one-millionth Wikipedia article
Andy Mabbett is disappointed by Transport Scotland’s response to his suggestion of a plaque to mark Jordanhill station as the subject of Wikipedia’s one-millionth article. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, hyperlocal, Wikipedia
Tagged Alemannisch, Arabic, blue plaque, bureaucracy, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, geo:latitude=55.8826, geo:longitude=-4.3246, geotagged, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, latin, million, plaque, Polish, QRpedia, Romanian, Russian, ScotRail, Scottish Transport, Simple English, Spanish, Swedeish, Thai, Transport Scotland, Welsh, wikipedia
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Unusual behaviour of Blue Tit at nest site
Andy Mabbett documents (with photograph and video) an unusual Blue Tit nest, in a dead tree, with separate entrance and exit holes. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, nature
Tagged behaviour, Betula pendula, birds, Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, geo:lat=52.5857, geo:lon=-1.8699, geotagged, nature, nest, nesting, ornithology, RSPB, RSPB Walsall, Silver Birch, Sutton Park, taxonomy:binomial=Betula_pendula, taxonomy:binomial=Cyanistes_caeruleus, taxonomy:genus=Betula, taxonomy:genus=Cyanistes, taxotagged, wildlife
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Will we get a warm welcome or a cold shoulder at Tech Wednesday?
Andy Mabbett notes that a new attendee at Tech Wednesday left with a bad impression, and suggests some lessons that might be learned. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, Birmingham, microformats, social media, web standards
Tagged Aston, Birmingham, Birmingham Science Park, Birmingham Social Media Cafe, BirminghamSPA, bsmc, C++, coffee, coworking, geek, geo:lat=52.488678, geo:lon=-1.887298, geotagged, html5, Jane Fisher, janefisherorganise, JaneOrganise, meetup, otaku_coder, social, social networking, SQL, tech, Tech Wednesday, techies, twiitter:status=70436025842933760, twitter:user=birminghamspa, twitter:user=JaneOrganise, twitter:user=otaku_coder, twitter:user=techwednesday, vcard, web design, web development
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Ian Emes’ ‘French Windows’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’ at Ikon
Ian Emes’ video for Pink Floyd’s ‘One of These Days’, ‘French Windows’, is part of an exhibition at Birmingham’s Ikon gallery, until September 2010 Continue reading
Wine REPugnant
I love The Rep in Birmingham. But I’ve been disappointed recently to see that they’re using six electric heaters (pictured) outside the building. Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, Birmingham
Tagged annoyance, Birminghamrep, clueless, environment, geo:lat=52.479079, geo:lon=-1.909376, geotagged, globalwarming, heatstore, rep
11 Comments
Triple tags on Twitter
Triple tags (known as Machine Tags on Flickr) are a way of tagging web content with tags having three parts: a namespace, a predicate and a value. This means that we can differentiate between content about a Beagle dog (tagged … Continue reading
Posted in annoyances, gaffes, nature
Tagged #geo:lon:-1.895389, beagle, flickr, flickr:image=2238938901, geo:lat=52.478342, geo:lat=53.60913, geo:lon=-1.56403, geotagged, hashtags, kingfisher, summize, tagged, tags, taxonomy, taxonomy:binomial=Alcedo_atthis, taxonomy:genus=Alcedo, triple tag, triple tags, twemes, twitter:status=849630924, twitter:status=853592240
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Oops
A WindowsXP error message, projected onto a building in Birmingham, England. Continue reading
Posted in Birmingham, gaffes
Tagged geo:lat=52.479692, geo:lon=-1.905848, geotagged, windowsXP
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