The UK government has been publishing UK postcode data for nearly a year now. It is available for free here from the Ordnance Survey and is branded as Code-Point® Open. Essentially the data provides 1.7 million UK postcodes, with their British National Grid Reference, local authority and ward listed for each. The most interesting data is the grid reference, supplied as a full Northing and Easting value. These can be used to calculate distances between postcodes, as well as being …
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Consilience Mulled Wine 2010
It’s that time again – the lead up to Christmas and time to cook up a batch of mulled wine. Drinking it is half the joy, the other half being the spicy aroma that lingers around the office for days.
Safe delivery
Congratulations to Helen and Stuart on the birth of their baby daughter, Holly Mae, at 11.46 am Monday 29 November 2010. She weighed in at a bouncing 8lb 11oz and ‘mother and baby’ are doing well – if not getting much sleep. Well done Helen!
Hallowe’en Background Ambience
Since this was a last minute job for my daughter this Hallowe’en, there was no time to post this up then, so just consider it an early post for next year. I’m thinking of late 2011 already, and it’s not even Christmas yet.
READ ME! The art of writing headlines
Eye catching and succinct – what makes a great headline? Headlines in ‘the environmentalist’ are the subject of both merriment and frustration here at Consilience. Obviously they have a job to do; getting the reader’s attention and compelling him or her to read on. A headline also has to work with the standfirst (that paragraph above the main body of copy that should give you a two- second digest of the piece plus the authors’ names). Both the headline and …
Monkey for a day
Saturday morning saw me hugging trees. Nothing new there you might think. Only this time I was rather far off the ground. Bearing in mind that I’m scared of heights, this was probably an insane thing to do, but it was a surprise for a friend’s 40th and we were at Go Ape, Matfen Hall. The induction took an hour, but it was really thorough. This is ok I thought – then I had to climb up the first ladder …
Siteroom has launched!
It’s taken longer than we hoped, but finally Siteroom is live! Oh yeah, I better explain what Siteroom is …
Crocs and coral
No computer or internet access for our fortnight in the north, but back in Melbourne now for the last few days of our holiday. We’ve gone from 36 degrees back down to 14 in Melbourne, but the sun has been shining so that helps. It’s been 16 years since I first went to Kakadu in the Northern Territory. Last time I was there it was late October, the end of the dry season and the ‘build up’ to the wet, …
Election deja vu
General election, Labor (sic) loses its majority, the result is a hung parliament, everyone scrabbling around trying to woo the independents, the first Green Party candidate is elected to the lower house – no one is currently governing the country. Sounds familiar? Yep, same thing has happened here. It’s looking like the right wing (‘Liberal’) coalition will be the ones able to make the numbers up, but as yet nothing confirmed. Australia holds its elections on a Saturday as it …
Tasting expensive wine
Yep, plenty of koalas – and also lots of beautiful birds visited us in our treehouse at Wye River – a gorgeous view of the sea through the gum trees – and the lorikeets, parrots, rosellas, kookaburras and cockatoos keeping us company on our deck. We also saw kangaroos, wallabies and emus on our drive through through the Grampians – i bet they were finding it cold, it got down to 5 degrees. We’re leaving the southern Australian winter for …