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Fun with Google Maps

Capsi

Future scenario: a reader finds a concert or venue on my new site. The address is listed, pictures of past shows appear.. all is good and fun. But wouldn't it be nice to know where exactly the venue can be found? It would!

Well, it looks like that's exactly what I'll be offering. Here's an example showing the local pub on a satellite/map hybrid view, generated using a .klm file I saved from Google Earth (and will be dynamically generating once I add coordinates for venues to the database).

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Still needs some work (custom icons, more venues, a label for the venue selected, links to the venue page of other venues showing in the area).. but nonetheless I'm happy.

Enter Shikari tonight

Gigs

Going to the pub last night (and Sunday, and Saturday, and Friday) might not have been such a brilliant idea because I'm rather knackered and Enter Shikari is playing at Waterfront tonight so I won't have a chance to get much sleep.

Sucks to be me! ;)

What's up with Rob?

Personal

Other than still being able to write lame rhymes, everything is dandy here. I'm still somewhat hyper from GIAN and with three concerts coming up this weekend this means my happy vibe is going to be a prolonged one! I can't really dismiss Laura either but whatever the exact reason for the vibe, I feel great. :-)

Work is quite hectic, I put in plenty of over-time this weekend. And it looks like trips to Moscow (finally!) and Bucharest are about to happen this month. But anyone who slightly knows me also knows that I like to not just play hard but also work hard (when I'm not lazy). The only downside is that I haven't really had time to work on the new Capsi site but I'm hopeful that I will find a bit of time for that pet project later this week. I still have to finish the blogs, picture galleries, friends lists, proper form feedbacks and whatnot.. the basics look very promising to me though.

Tonight however will be a regular pub night.. I feel like I've deserved it, so you know where you can find me!

Edit: oops, hangover! Also, God apparently felt like handing me lemons because both Alexisonfire shows have been cancelled due to a family emergency for the band. So I made lemonade and hacked together cancellations and postponed dates for the concert site. :-D

Pub poker

Personal

Note to self: only play poker in the pub. Whenever I play it elsewhere, with patience and tactics, I lose money. Whenever I am totally hammered I seem to have the magic ability to go all-in on two-seven unsuited and still win the pot.

Okay, that's not entirely true (I play Hold'Em Limit on my mobile), but I turned another tenner into twenty-two last night with a streak of straights, which means there's four times the amount of money in my account now than what I've started with. I'll admit it's all peanuts and that I'm no big player, but still.. I'd rather make a small profit every week/month than pretend to be great while in reality all I do is make weekly deposits.

So yay to me and yay to drunken poker!

Landlord Rob

Personal

Apparently the pub registered me with Jameson as their top Jameson drinker, which might or might not have to do with all the Irish coffee I order.

Anyway, this mean I'll get a certificate and deed for a couple of square feed in Ireland. I'm going to be a landowner in Ireland.

That's kind of neat considering Google has approached me again for a job interview. Their European tech centre is in Dublin so the more land I own there the easier it would be to relocate. :-)

On-line and mobile poker

Personal

Can someone tell me why I always lose money when playing poker on-line on my laptop, while I make a (small but steady) profit when playing on my mobile with the PokerRoom GPRS client?

It's almost as if the pocket cards dealt include some sort of compensation for my network charges.. or for the fact that I look like a total dork when playing in the pub. But hey, on average I earn two free pints a night - not bet for a mediocre Texas Hold'Em player.

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