I’ve been a bit slack with my back garden, but I have to say, I’m quite pleased that I left a couple of small patches to their own devices. They’ve sprouted a small number of wild flowers, and last weekend, they were just about as good as I’ve seen them.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
The Amazing Google Strike Again!
This morning I was given a tracking number for a parcel I am expecting. However, I didn’t get the name of the company who were to deliver it. Not a good start if I wanted to use the tracking number to actually track the parcel.
Then I remembered a discussion at work about Google’s recognition routines, and one of my few remaining synapses fired into life.
I went to Google’s homepage, typed in my tracking number (nothing else, just the number) and hit search. I have to admit I was very pleasantly surprised when the top of the results page said “Track UPS package 1Z6 ….. 70″
Very neat.
Picasaweb – new slideshow feature
I’ve just seen that picasaweb have added a slideshow feature to their web photo albums. I was going to post about something else, but I thought this was cool enough to put the other post to one side for a while.
Here’s an example…