tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-96948392011-07-15T00:42:45.613ZGuaranteed 100% Moseley content - except for that which isn't. Ye live in a place, see stuff, do things, have a dialogue with yourself and sometimes others. <br> After a while it begins to resonate, things strike a chord, and comments start happening. <br> It's all just a reaction. <br> Moseley content, Moseley web-presence, things as yet undiscovered.Moseley Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12469295644517692434noreply@blogger.comBlogger951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9694839.post-31891232217481568892008-09-21T12:08:00.003Z2008-09-21T12:23:49.698Z

The 'mobile' home / social centre parked in the Meteor forecourt has been gutted by fire, and the remains scattered about, sometime over the last few days. That's sad, since it seemed like a pretty stable alternative to the Lych Gate.The empty auto dealership is also looking forlorn. It seems to have had a break-in, and is in the first stages of neglect+vandalism. Graffiti and a bit of damage

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View Larger MapA fake designer clothes factory thought to be the largest discovered in the West Midlands has been found in a Birmingham suburb. Police discovered the counterfeiting operation in the Kings Heath area after thieves tried to ram-raid the industrial unit on Thursday morning. [via BBC]A bit peculiar. What buildings of this size exist in Kings Heath? First floor workshops? Not if

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Garages on Cotton Lane - roof torn off by the tornado, doors and panels torn off by vandals?

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Came across this at http://www.programmableweb.com/http://mygeoposition.comhttp://mygeoposition.com/loc/52.446587,-1.887996/?zoomLevel=17&mapType=

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A bit of cut-n-paste from The Observer Sunday August 12, 2007 The skateboarderPaul-Luc Ronchetti will be showing off his rodeos and kickflips from Newquay to California When he's at home, Paul-Luc visits his small local skate park at the recreation ground in Wymondham, but he rates it just a one-out-of-10. So, for the past two years he's relied on his mother driving him on 300-mile round

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I stopped in at Johnstan's today and picked up a postcard from the counter. Some sort of community website. AboutMyArea.co.uk/B14 will be the new community website run by local people from the heart of Kings Heath. There'll be lots of information about community events and groups, local listings, local news and vital information for anyone living locally. And there's more to come...You will start

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Yes, much excitement locally about the new Polish deli that's being set up on the High Street, but what's really interesting to me about this photo is that I've just uploaded it to flickr.Gosh how very interesting that flickr still allows me to upload photos even though I haven't given in to the demand for a yahoo ID. And here I thought refuseniks would be banned, then vaporised! Guess I was just

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Can You? Go ahead, surprise me with plausible explanations of this list. Found on a pillar box at the top of Greenhill Road.

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Someone has come along Wake Green Road and cleaned the algae off this bus stop marker. I recall the previous condition distinctly. What surprises me is that I noticed the change. And speaking of surprises, what two bunny imposters were walking across Moseley Village today with a small placard saying Escape Bunny?

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We were told this was in the works, but now that's it's underway, the place is looking raw rather than pretty. Highbury Park's first Anti Social Vegetation Order.

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Someone added a caption to this art project.

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The new Zoto service launched a few minutes ago, and does this groovy page of up to 160 thumbnails organised by tag, date, and any of several other criteria. This is gonna be fun!Link to Zoto 3.0 - Photo SharingOf course, it also means that the photos below may have to be re-linked, especially for the lapsed accounts...

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Give people a day off to play in the snow and what do they do? Make sculpture in the old Henbury garden at Highbury Park! Oh, alright it's not a Henry Moore. But it was an inspired thing to do, and looks quite good framed by the old brick pillars. So I hope it snows again, and again. More sculptures, a variety of them. A snow-sculpture event. With hot drinks. And lots of people.

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I love how corporate crapmongers make life more difficult for clients in order to make life easier for themselves. Case in point? Google's new Blogger (tbka Bloggle). The new Blogger - which we are required to adopt if we wish to continue with this website - is not designed with clumsy John Q. Public in mind. So one is - shall we say - stuffed, when one provides something like an email address

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Here’s an interesting and useful new service from the civic-minded folk at mySociety: Neighbourhood Fix-It. I don’t know what the mechanics are, e.g., how the Council is notified, but this will become apparent over time. I did sign up and provided an example of something that needs attention: this street sign at the corner of Greenhill Road and Billesley Lane. The reporting process requires

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Today brought this year's first hard frost, and the shortest day. Both were over relatively quickly, with clear night sky turning to fog, then sunshine and bag to fog in the late afternoon. The air was cold enough this morning that it was something of a shock to the lungs, and the hands. The resulting photographs are blurry from low light and lack of steadiness. The fog has been making headlines

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A few weeks pass and this is what happens.powered by performancing firefox

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 2006-09-29_009, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger 2. Colour of the day. In the background. See that container? I was waiting for the No. 1 this afternoon and this monster rolled up. Within seconds I had a theme going.

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An opinion piece by Camilla Cavendish from today's Times: "From Glasgow to Great Torrington, from Dartford to Darlington, citizens are arming themselves with pencils and tomes of planning law and campaigning to preserve their streets and their open spaces. Which in many cases means keeping out Tesco. Sorry, Tesco. Every little hurts. I mention this not just because I too am beginning to feel

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On a Saturday morning when Kings Heath High Street is jammed with shoppers and traffic, Highbury Park is, in contrast, notably placid. Ten cars in the parking area, some two dozen people out and about, including the volunteers participating in the tidy-up day, and about half as many dogs. Early Autumn is a great time to stroll through the park, because the trees are starting to distinguish

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Spotted from the top deck of the No. 1 as it crossed Alcester Road. What it is? Has someone left a cake out in the rain? Has another street drinker passed away? Did it fall off a hearse? Is it some kind of Yippie prank or anti-gentrification snark? I suspect it has something to do with an award... Recognition for the efforts made by Natalie Higgins et al has come not in the massive blooms

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So far, the newly raised kerbstones along School Road have produced exactly the results I'd hoped for. People careening downhill slow to a crawl when vehicles are coming the other way along this stretch, and, as seen in the distance in the top photo, when there are vehicles parked partway onto the pavement by the shops. For now, it means a lot more peace of mind while walking this stretch. I

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This started out as the piece on demolitions, but has been sidetracked a bit. I haven't searched through my files for older photos showing the buildings before they were knocked down, but want to post the photos I took this morning while I can justify spending the few minutes it'll take to make a note about each. What the post ends up as is a short tour of the School Road site, plus a couple of

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I have been meaning to keep up with minor but noticeable changes around the neighbourhood - and in some cases, the absence of such change. I think that this is one function that suits a blog well. Building an archive of the place as it varies over time - and not just in major ways. Given that Moseley developed its suburban character over a hundred years ago, there's not much one can expect in

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According to a survey and social profile of net-savvy Britons, Moseley is about as backward as it gets.The results are presented through a tool called e-Society profiler. Entering a postcode in the e-Society profiler search box returns a result characterising the type of technology use in that postcode area. It also lists areas with similar profiles within Great Britain. Best of all, it shows us

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It's been a long while since I've seen a hedgehog, and today this little one showed up in my garden. Perhaps this means there are good eats around the place – aside from the hedge trimmings in the black bags.It’s also been a long while since this particular semi on Cotton Lane saw any activity. Someone’s done a good bit of tidying, and put a notice on the front door of one side.My garden could do

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From Ashfield RoadFrom an evening walk through Highbury ParkFrom a walk along Grove Lane

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It's not Moseley content, but it caught my eye and it needs a place to go. I was skimming the latest posts at googlesystem.blogspot.com when I came across this one: "Paul Brians, a professor of English, has compiled an extensive list of common errors in English usage. ... A hard drive and a hard disk are much the same thing; but when it comes to removable computer media, the drive is the

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Uh-Oh, Domino, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. So, let's think about this. Three upright, one horizontal. No bees. A bit ofcolour. Some nice shadows. Any discernible patterns here? Is this a snipe at the recent tower-building in the vicinity, with one tower toppled for reasons to be discovered; for the beauty of it, or the sins of the arrogant? The clue is at the base of the toppled

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Beehives on the forecourt?, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. Nice stack of boxes. Some cleverness associated with architecture week, no doubt. Not sure if there's anything more to them. Getting closer though.

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What I like about clever art projects., originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. The answer to the above question is: because they fall over. Some of you will know that I am a great fan of gravity (and of levity too, but that's not pertinent here). So, here is an interesting series of views with a surprise conclusion (missing from the series unfortunately, as the camera battery died at that moment)

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2006-06-21_003.jpg, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. This is the pub of helpfulness on Grosvenor Road. I shall return to regale the publican with stories of misguided travels. Wish I could make out what the name is.

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Brindleyplace knows what a map is, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. See glowing review in previous post.

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No-wheres-ville, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. Had heard about this evening's CRAIG keynote talk by John Holden, and wantedto see what someone from DEMOS says about culture. (Note that the CWM blurbgives no info as to the location of the venue.) Note, also that I neglectedto spend any time websurfing in an effort to locate it. But, 50 minutesahead of time I hopped on the No. 1,

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Two wheels on the road, one hand on the camera., originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Two wheels on the road, one hand on the camera., originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Two wheels on the road, one hand on the camera., originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Two wheels on the road, one hand on the camera., originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. Cycled through Cannon Hill Park to and from the University, with camera inhand. Would be cool to make a handlebar mount for it and do a

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lost Things, originally uploaded by moseleyblogger. Spotted this on Oxford Road. Hung it from a twig on the adjacent hedge.Passed by later, it was gone.

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Haven't had time to explore these sites, let alone play with their offerings, so this is just a note for future reference. Both are mentioned at Google Maps Mania, and both are applications that require some sort of download; a Google API for one, and an executable for the other. The first is interesting because it looks like a tool for re-conceptualising road navigation as a 3D contextual array

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The 26th of May turned out to be a pretty fine day. The 25th was good too. The reason? Sunshine, uninterrupted by rain. Gardens dry enough to mow, for the first time in about two weeks. So it was a good day to be out and about with a camera. But that does not mean that any photograph was taken on account of the sunny spell. These photos were taken on account of an idea about documenting the

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The title of this post is indicative of a certain proportionality. This same group of numbers can also be expressed as whole percentages: 64%, 23%, 12%. As ratios in relation to each other they are roughly 5:2:1. The largest is nearly five times the smallest, while the middle number is twice the smallest, and nearly 2/5ths of the largest. The title also refers to the votes cast at tonight's

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Today's circuit of Kings Heath turned up a few interesting sights, some of which have to do with local elections, new features of rubbish collection, and a vintage motorcycle.The big blank wall on School Road is acquiring a new layer of graffiti, which makes the Lib-Dem campign placard for Ernie Hendricks either strategically well-placed or strategically mis-placed. The fact that the wall was

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size = '27'; for(var i=0; i'); } document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(' '); } document.write(''); Full images at zoto.comOne of the old cast-iron lamp posts at Oxford Road/School Road has been painted green and silver. There's a second one done this way at Ascot Road. But there are at least three other styles of post along the road. Some are better-looking than

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Can you see the sky reflected in a copper coin? If you made a copy big enough to stand on, and kept it polished, and set it in the pavement of the Village Green, do you think people would come to look at the reflection? Or would they stand on it and voice their opinions?

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 Something happened here. Big trees - cedar or arborvitae by the look of them - have come down. They survived the tornado, but not the remodeling job that's going on here. Sad, because this intersection - Oxford and School Road - had mature trees all round. This property is not in the tree conservation area. Oh well.

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Institute Road, Kings HeathNot quite a bouncy castle, but this looks great and could be fun in the garden or a large playroom.And those colours: love 'em!I wonder if it a raft made from those flat pieces - and lashed together wwith those tubes - would float down the Rea, Huck Finn style.

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Two somebodies did the lovely thing of leaving alliterative objects in my path.Near the Springfield roundabout:

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Today's errands facilitated a walk along Alcester Road, so with camera in hand, I went looking for stories. Here's what I found.Woodnorton House visible through the trees, with a council fencing crew doing something round the back - looked like new fenceposts going in.Lovely view of birches on the far side of the railway.There's a somewhat longer story in this one, involving a landowner who wants

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Okay, I admit it. This blog hasn't got the fastest sense of humour. It's been a while since anything satirical, silly, or even jocular was posted here. Heck, it's been a while since anything got posted here. So the gang at BIRMINGHAM: IT'S NOT SHIT have well outpaced and outranked us in terms of creative contributions to the cultures and aesthetic sensibilities of Brum. (hangs head in shame)But

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Here's the list of UK companies regaled as among the 100 most sustainable corporations in the world. It includes such environmental luminaries as Severn Trent and Slough Estates. Not to mention BP and British Airways, of course.Read it and, erm, emote. Alliance Unichem PLC Health Care Providers & Services Aviva PLC Insurance BAA PLC Transportation Infrastructure Boots Group PLC Food &

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"When used on or in a concrete structure, photocatalysts decompose organic materials that foul the surface.""A hydrophilic surface prevents moisture from forming beads of water that may cause stains by attracting and holding dirt and then streaking the surface. Instead, moisture forms a thin film across a surface that interferes with the adhesion of dirt. Rain or simple rinsing can then easily

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It's simple - so simple that I wish I'd thought of it - and it exemplified what I like about simple artworks: they're easy to like, easy to identify with and find an affinity for.Now, if my PC hadn't just crashed for the 8th or 11th time today, I'd have more to say about this, with reference to a bigger version for climbing - and as a more aesthetically credible alternative to the Ent proposed

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There are some very spiffy things going on over at marumushi.com. One of them is a 'treemapped' news aggregator; Google News, to be exact. The headlines from news services around the world are colour-coded, 'squarified' and sized accordning to some kind of weighting. The result is mind-boggling to look at, but also easy to deal with conceptually. Much easier than scrolling down a page. If I could

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From a trip to Sutton a few weeks ago, run through VMach, Exifered, and uploaded to Zoto. Some of them are surreal (as one would expect of Sutton Coldfield), others form pretty patterns. Not your typical Rorschach inkblots, but go ahead, read something into them, find stuff that's not there. Quite a few of these also look good in greyscale. var current_image_89154=0; function

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This is what the trip home could have looked like sans camera, had I indulged in a spot of fly agaric. var current_image_53463=0; function cycle_image_53463(){ size = 37; current_image_53463++; if(current_image_53463 >= images_53463.length){ current_image_53463 = 0; } document.getElementById('zoto_cycle_link_53463').href = links_53463[current_image_53463];

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Amanita muscaria. Messenger Of The Gods. A dozen of them. In a wooded part of Moseley. Anyone with a proclivity for recereational psychopharmacology could have a fine time, along with several friends, based on this outcrop of fungi. Would be an interesting addition to a pint. Everyone could go flying.This is the biggest group - and are probably the biggest specimens - I've ever seen, and, while

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Here, at long last, is some actual Moseley content. It's been a long dry spell in terms of photographically enagaging local events that also prompt some sort of reflection.The city council - apparently - have nominated certain roads for a pilot rubbish collection scheme, where residents can put out any old thing in the run-up to the specified collection day. This kind of thing happens in other

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est/page/0">Word has it that Googlemaps and Google Earth finally havedecent satellite images of Brum. So let's see...This is the Google map for Moseley. There's some gray on the left, and some blurry imagery in the middle, and some crisp imagery on the right. Moseley is somewhere in that middle bit. Something tells me that this isn't the high-resolution photography that one could reasonably

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Look here.More later.

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In the tunnel Originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.I spotted this while passing along a tunnel between two houses - one of those shared access to the rear gardens type tunnel. I looks like a bunch of youngsters got together on 1 September 1960 and wrote their names and birthdays as high up the wall as they could reach. The same practice was repeated at other times, perhaps as early as 1930,

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Lost Things Originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.Not quite as compelling as the chess set I saw scattered along Wake Green Road, Saturday morning, but nonetheless, eye-catching. I left it there.

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This is a map of England. Not much of a map, more of a colour-cutout. A map would provide some sort of information beyond the outline of a nation. It is somehow taken as given that I know this is a map of England. The story this is taken from instructs the reader that five cities are to be identified within it. Identify the following cities on the map below: Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol,

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This looks cool, but I dunno what it does, nor how to get it to do that thing on my machinery.

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Here's an example of something that's getting around in cyberspace with a point of departure just down the street. I routinely check in with several mapping blogs, including Google Maps Mania, where the story about adoption of mashups by news organisations makes reference to a Birmingham-based consulting firm at this journalism-focused website:Developed by Birmingham-based technology firm Daden,

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Two birds of peace are flying in Moseley tonight. I wonder if any more will show up in the next couple of days.

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Real-time travel information via computer comes a big step closer with a couple of UK websites. Google Maps::BBC Travel News is a Google mashup - nothing to do with motorway pile-ups - that combines information from several sources and displays it as icons and balloons on a Google map. The travel info consists of BBC Travel News bulletins. Other mapped data include weather, speed camera locations

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Of all the UK mapping sites I've seen, the most detailed are provided through Centro as part of their journey-mapping service. The maps give details of individual building footprints and property lines, which makes it very helpful in locating destinations and way points.There are two ways of using these maps. One is through the journey planner at http://www.travelinemidlands.co.uk/cityplan. This

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The first Moseley Circle is substantially complete. All the southern roads are snapped and tagged, and a few key roads in the north. I still need to get over to Park Hill, Alcester Road, Trafalgar Road and Kingswood Road. Once that's done I'll have drawn a circle (some 4640' in diameter and 2.76 miles in circumference) around Moseley, and mapped it with photographs. Each of the points is

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2005-07-02_003 Originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.In addition to things that are on their way in or out, appearing or disappearing, I am noting things lost, or found.This spectacle case is just one of the things I spotted in my travels today. I saw a house key, a partly-eaten pizza, a toy water rifle, and a two-tone cricket ball.

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2005-03-01_141 Originally uploaded by moseleyblogger.After fooling around with Google Maps for a few weeks, I've figured out a relatively simple way of touring Moseley on line, using geoblogger. What I'm going to do is post photos of Moseley village and vicinity to Flickr, then geoblog them, and perhaps Moseley Blog them. I've started with the former phone box opposite Oxford Road, above the

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On the bus stop outside Kwicksave for several weeks, this wasn't done by any of Moseley's usual suspects, although someone did apparently ring up one of the same to 'admit to it'. The stain in the middle is from a lump of something like chewing gum on the glass underneath, not a wod of spittle.

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I doubt that this is the highest point in town, but it's certainly catching the last rays of sunlight around 9:00. There aren't many areas of Moseley that permit a view of the sun at its descent, but the church steeple and St. Mary's Row are two of them. The nice thing about this steeple is that the opposite side is also likely to be lit at dawn.

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The sun is coming over the horizon just about now. Too bad it's overcast, and I'm not so high up as to see it. This map comes from Skyview Cafe, which is a java-based interactive star chart and ephemeris. I've plugged in Moseley coordinates: 52 degrees 26 minutes North, 1 degree 52 minutes West, which puts us just south of the bog in Swanshurst Park (in a boat, if we're lucky). Standing at that

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The good news is, that without the aid of super-goggles wirelessed into the great blue yonder (for so the wondrous interweb is known in the heart of Moseley), a set of real-time, here-and-now experiences is coming for all of Moseley's happy residents. The annual samosa-feast, shopping extravaganza, drinking, lazing about all day in the Private Park, tire-out-your-toddler opportunity aka Mozfest,

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Once upon a time, the idea was to develop Virtual Reality goggles that would give people access to computer-based environments. People would wander around inside computer generated spaces, like something off the Star Trek holodeck. But that kind of thinking is old hat. What's happening now is that goggles are giving computers access to the lived environment. A wearable display (goggles)

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The latest version of supermarket/housing at the Meteor Ford site is available for viewing until 15 June - that's next Wednesday. It identifies Tesco as the supermarket operator, says that this is the best of four sites in Moseley (the former Moneywise, the Moseley Car Park, and the other Meteor property on the opposite side of St. Mary's Row) for the necessary 17,000 square feet of floor space.

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It's time to turn surveillance into sousveillance; time to watch the watchers with a collection of these devices attached to people, dogs, bicycles, pigeons, foxes, balloons, and anything that floats, moves or gets carried around. Some possible games:* Multiple cameras fed into one display as people trek, track, play or coordinate with each other. * Watch the monitor with the camera, creating

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Remapping High Wycombe:When: June 18th 2005, 10.30am to 9pm(ish) Where: High Wycombe Town Centre. You will be able to interact with the walker and feed him with information about the sites, your own thoughts and stories about the places he passes through and suggest alternative routes.Statement of IntentInspired by the Sitautionist practice of derive, we set out to chart the layers of place that

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HereThereMore fun with Google maps. (Kiped from here, with thanks to Jennifer) This form will plot a route for you, meaning the code could go on your webpage and give people the opportunity to make their own journeys. There are some quirky things about this software. It doesn't allow you to go off road. Into the park, for instance. It thinks you're driving. It also plots alternative routes - like

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Here's a new and fun e-gadget: a Google-mapping tool that gives us the option to label points on a Google map. So, for example, one might use it to take a walking tour of Moseley, where each point is linked to an image somewhere, or linked to a website, or even just a spot on the global coordinate system. Would be fun to have a GPS device and to go stand at exactly 52.436000,-1.865000, poke a

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Here's where I change tune somewhat on the statue. There's more to the story than the headlines, as it were, and, as I said below, there are some good things about the proposal. This is where they get a bit of air and light. Some details are now online at the Moseley Statue Group website. There's a history page with key dates and a sentence or so by way of explanation. There's also an important

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Tailored to the diverse character of Moseley, this semi-transparent kiosk will provide a colourfully-lit spot from which to start any of several journeys throughout the area. The potential is there for it to be interactive, but initially it will contain a halo of coloured lights and a map of Moseley painted or projected onto the underside, with an effect similar to stained glass. From this point

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Beginnings of the Ent: Moseley's 'Tolkien' statue proposal.

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It was good to hear several objections to the 'Tolkien' statue at tonight's Moseley Society AGM, and it was interesting to see who joined the usual suspects in support of the thing. To be fair, David Isgrove put forward a halfway convincing presentation, particularly in relation to justifying a statue in the first instance. Halfway convincing because the other half was contradictory and not well

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 You haven't seen a bog until you've seen a Moseley bog.  Why Moseley? Because the area is a conservation district with its own special bog preservation order. Even though bogs are not pretty in an ordinary way, they are nonetheless places of fascination and home to diverse wildlife.  The main attraction of a bog has to do with its age. Older is definitely better! The oldest bog in Moseley was

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#1 Moseley BogIt's on everybody's lips, the celebrated Moseley Bog. #2 Moseley LogBill Ease is very very good at explaining a concept euphemistically called curling one off. Join us on a tour of Bill's morning leisure. Not for the scatalogically challenged. #3 Moseley LoafTearing away from loos humour, our next adventure is in the bag: a loaf of Harvest Cob from this weeks Moseley Farmer's

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Moseley Log

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