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Month: October 2007

Creating Google Maps Icon/Marker/Pushpin

Creating Google Maps Icon/Marker/Pushpin

Simple steps to create your own Google Maps pushpins.

Step 1) Create your image:

  • Ideally width to 32px.
  • PNG-24 fomat.
  • Transparent.
  • Non-aliased.

Step 2) Visit Shadowmaker.

  • Select the icon from your desktop. The program creates a 2D outline of your image.
  • Save the shadow.

If you like it you’re ready to go.

If you don’t like, you can try these stock Icons/Markers/Pushpins.

Google Labs: Google Maps Push Pins
Google Stock Pushpins: Google Maps Stock Icons

An aside

An aside

I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son
I’m only plucking pheasants ’till the pheasant plucker comes.

Me husband is a keeper, he’s a very busy man
I try to understand him and I help him all I can,
But sometimes in an evening I feel a trifle dim
All alone, I’m plucking pheasants, when I’d rather pluck with him.

I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s mate
I’m only plucking pheasants ‘cos the pheasant plucker’s late !

I’m not good at plucking pheasants, at pheasant plucking I get stuck
Though some pheasants find it pleasant I’d rather pluck a duck.
Oh plucking geese is gorgeous, I can pluck a goose with ease
But pheasant plucking’s torture because they haven’t any grease.

I’m not a pheasant plucker, he has gone out on the tiles
He only plucked one pheasant and I’m sitting here with piles !

You have to pluck them fresh, if it’s fresh they’re not unpleasant,
I knew a man in Dunstable who could pluck a frozen pheasant.
They say the village constable had pheasant plucking sessions
With the vicar on a Sunday ‘tween the first and second lessons.

I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s mum
I’m only plucking pheasants ’till the pheasant plucker’s come.

My good friend Godfrey is most adept, he’s really got the knack
He likes to have a pheasant plucked before he hits the sack.
I like to give a helping hand, I gather up the feathers,
It’s really all our pheasant plucking keeps us pair together.

I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s friend
I’m only plucking pheasants as a means unto an end !

My husband’s in the forest always banging with his gun
If he could hear me half the time I’m sure that he would run,
For there’s fluff in all my crannies, there’s feathers up my nose
And I’m itching in the kitchen from my head down to my toes.

I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s wife
And when we pluck together it’s a pheasant plucking life !

Google Earth Travel Guide – Serbia & Montenegro

Google Earth Travel Guide – Serbia & Montenegro

To download this free travel guide to Serbia & Montenegro.

Google Earth – Download

Browse and visit the main sites and attraction of the world’s newest country.

Best tracks – Moraca Valley – Podgorica -> Rasko

Best tracks – Moraca Valley – Podgorica -> Rasko

The Moraca Valley running from the Moraca river just out of Podgorica up to the small village, Rasko.

Passes through Moraca village where there’s a steam train and monastery and of course, river below.

Best drive in Serbia & Monetenegro
Towering granite spires, deep forest and plummeting river canyon most of the way.

Points to watch: Trucks approaching on the other side of the road.
Tunnels have overhang; Truck drivers work around is to approach on your side of the road.

KML (start): – 42.473850, 19.302940 Podgorica to
KML (finish): – 42.817930, 19.402110 Rasko

Worst tracks – Zabljak -> Niksic

Worst tracks – Zabljak -> Niksic

From Durmitor national park over to Niksic.

Worst roads in Europe
Marked on the map as a major route, this homebound route turned out to be the architypal Montenegrin country thoroughfare.
Windey, dangerous, nutters approaching in the other direction, nutters approaching from behind.
Single track for the duration, about 20 miles. Sheer drops denoted by flowers peppered intermittently on either side.

Scenery’s good, if you make it home.

KML (start):– 43.15443, 19.12115 Zabljak to
KML (finish):– 42.902470, 18.962960 Niksic

Scamming the figures

Scamming the figures

It’s interesting to see the US treasury have forgotten how to count.
I’ve got 5 A’levels and it never helped me find a job.

Latent wage deflation will be the undoing of the economy through snowball effect, like a bigfoot effect you might say. In today’s terms.