Beezly's Blog

Another number that kept ringing me. 08000524264 belongs to EUI Ltd., a part of Admiral Group, who trade as Admiral, Bell and elephant.co.uk.

It reports to be a Courtesy Call number and says that there is no need for me to call them back. STOP BLOODY RINGING ME THEN!. Argh – why do these companies insist on trying to contact me!

Well, they’ve been added to my phone’s block list now. I use an excellent application on my Treo 680 called Call Block from Wish Solutions. It will block calls from specified numbers, private numbers and numbers not in your contact list. It will also log the calls that it has blocked. You can even configure it to pick up and then drop the call, so the caller doesn’t even get through to voicemail.

£7.23 well spent.

Well “explore holmfirth” has been offline for years now. Me and beezly started thinking about how we could bring it back in form of a dynamic community driven photo navigation system, …but never quite got round to it.

For a long time Geograph has been the closest anyone has come to my idea (Well that’s the most impressive UK example of photo-location tagging at least)

But the big G has just launched a new extension to their maps…

Google Streetview

Takes a while for all the fancy javascript to load, but give it a try. Cool hey? Might have to wait for a while before they add Holmfirth coverage though!