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… here come the rest of the travel blogs (well days 306 to 314 for starters). Better late than never…

You can dynamically request icon images from the Google charts api with the urls: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chst=d_map_pin_letter&chld=%E2%80%A2|FE7569 Which looks like this: the image is 21×43 pixels and the pin tip is at position (10, 34) And you’ll also want a separate shadow image (so that it doesn’t overlap nearby icons): http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chst=d_map_pin_shadow Which looks like this: the image is 40×37 pixels and the pin tip is at position (12, 35) When you construct your MarkerImages you need to set the size and achor points accordingly:...

If you’re trying to update your LG mobile (I’m doing my LG Arena KM900) you will be taken to a page that tells you to install the WINDOWS USB Driver, whatever that is. At time of writing, that link doesn’t work. Don’t worry, just go ahead and click “Software Update” as there is the option to install the usb driver there. If you also need the PC Suite, I found a copy here....

If you know me, you’ll know I just got back from a year galavanting around the world. I was given a Sony e-book as a present which I took with me, and soon became an essential item. It’s already showing its age compared to newer models but I’m not buying a new one until e-book manufacturers start adding features I actually want. I don’t want: A colour screen. Why would I?...

…we were at Heathrow Terminal 5 sitting down and fastening our seatbelts on our flight to Delhi off on a round half the world adventure (which we almost missed because someone had been distracted by the shiny things on display in the Sony shop). We’ve had the most amazing year. Although we got back to the UK over 6 weeks ago, we are still travelling. Catching up with friends and family all over and seeing the UK from a different point of view....

If you have a photo you want to put into a small frame, you may struggle finding a print company that print photos smaller than 15cm x 10cm (6"x4"). The simple answer is to create add a white border to your jpeg and print that. Then you can just trim the edges off the print. I just tried this and it was harder than I would have liked. If you open your photo in some software and expand the canvas, you’ll find it will start eating lots of memory....

In Google App Engine, you can create owned one-to-many relationships between entities. The classic example you were taught at uni is that a Book owns a Chapter, which in turn, owns a Paragraph. For my site, stolencamerafinder, the example is that a camera Make owns a set of Models. If you want to query for the model directly in GQL (from the app engine dashboard for example) you can create the key by specifying the full parent chain:...

OK so I haven’t updated the blog yet for the rest of Australia & Japan but it’s our last few minutes before getting on our final flight of the trip back to sunny England. We can’t quite believe it. 10 months and 15 days. It’s really over. Can’t quite believe it. Looking forward to seeing family & friends but not being back to reality. Have no idea what that is like now....

We decided to stay in Cairns for the rest of the week. As much as we want to see Port Douglas and Cape Tribulation we are running short on funds and want to make the most of Sydney & Japan so we have to compromise. I won’t bore you with the details (as I have in the 302 days previously) so here’s the overview of Cairns post-diving. Interesting graffiti & sculpture just off Grafton Street near a kooky little cafe called Caffiend....

It was still dark when the alarm sounded at 5:45. It’s becoming a common occurrence with us, early mornings. Are we old? (We definitely have the crows feet & grey hair these days. It’s hard work all this travelling malarkey.) But this was for a much better reason than some bus driver waking us up to get a move on. We were off diving! We had to be at the marina by 7 and by some miracle were up and dressed with cheesy vegemite coated toast in hand we were out the side gate, a swift gallivant through town and down to the boat RedKist on pier E (or finger as they call it here?...