Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
Mia wanted some help with her English to Finnish film translation work. Em suggested the use of Urban Dictionary which is really very good especially for finding out current meaning of your name, we discovered that bingham is a fat lady not the place in Nottingham where my sister lived 😉
She also rather liked the definition for Emily! Although I prefer the Geoff day.
We will leave Sally to post what her name means 😉
Sally (who did this excellent post about the walk) and I recently walked the Sheeps Head Trail which starts and ends in Bantry, Cork, Ireland. We did the walk in a anti-clockwise fashion, as the numbered 350+ guide posts indicate. We stayed the two nights we were on the peninsular in Kilchrohane. first night at the Bridge View House, Ann Donegan the owner kindly returned us by car to where we left the trail on the North Side. The following night we stayed at The Bayview Inn both decent places although the evening meal at the Bayview was much superior IMHO.
This is our route and photographs:-
Sheeps Head Trail – Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging
For someone who is currently trying to sell their house in the UK, it was amazing to see the forest of For Sale signs and highly unusual the many deserted, unfinished, building sites. I can’t recall seeing one Sold sign in the whole of Cork. Certainly doesn’t bode well for the UK market. Apparently rental prices are collapsing too. Even The Bayview Inn is up for sale at €995,000!
We also stayed at Maggies superlative B&B The Atlantic Shore in Bantry. If you are thinking of opening a bed and breakfast may I suggest that you visit The Atlantic Shore to see how it is done especially the breakfast, the community table groaning under Maggies home made offerings 🙂
See her reviews in Trip Advisor or just contact her direct on Maggie Doyle, Atlantic Shore, Newtown, Bantry 027 51310 divebantry at aol.com
Pretty amazing what the Exposure plug in on my iPhone discovered. This was the closest geo tagged photo to where I was sitting when playing with the iPhone, and no , I didn’t take the image!
Today was the 3G Iphone release day. I upgraded my old iphone contract for £99 plus £35 a month for 18months for which I get 600 any time minutes and 500 texts per month plus unlimited data.
My main reason for upgrading was to get the GPS function.
Although now I have it, it isn’t clear to me that it isn’t some interpolation method from cell towers 🙁 I’m where the blue dot on the screenshot is (thats a neat trick press the Home and on/off buttons together for a screenshot) its about 10 yards out 🙂
What I was really hoping for is that my pictures would be geotagged, the camera does indeed ask for permission to use the location information but it isn’t clear what it does with it!
A bit annoying to discover that they don’t even use the cell information, let alone GPS satellites, to update the actual real time clock! i was on Cupertino time for most of the day.
I’ve tried a couple of applications;-WeightTrack only works in pounds and is not a patch on Eatwatch
I also tried the Facebook application which allows you to add camera images and update your feed it however caused oneof the biggest crashes of the day.
Here is todays 3G iPhone crash report to Apple:-
Which is a good deal longer than any in the last 6 months with the 2.5G version! Oh and its needing a major recharge to get me through the evening!
The contact search is excellent but still can’t see how to cut and paste or even how to add a contact to bluetooth or add to a text message, so its still way behind the Treo in nice business features. ( I guess it shows the insular nature of Apple).
