A while ago I did my own version of the google memory map thing as google didn’t have satellite images of the New Zealand at that point it was pretty much only the U S of A.

Google now seems to be expanding their satellite coverage. They’ve managed half of Auckland in focus and the other half not.

Its good to see they will be covering the globe in those little google watermarks even if it does take them a while!

Thanks to email aliases and Gmail I’m able to completely discard my email client. My email is now web based. No more POP or IMAP for me sonny-Jim! I get all my email forwarded to my Gmail account and let it take care of the spam and the filters and contacts and pretty much everything my old email client used to do.

It’s very liberating to be able to throw away an application that used to be the basis of my online life. Without email (and therefore the email client) I would have completely lost touch with most of my buddies from back home. (I know there’s IM - but living down here in NZ it very hard to get my mates to stay up and chat to me…or vice versa.)

The next thing I need to eradicate from my life is my RSS reader. I use Thunderbird to keep track of all the blogs and news sites I read…but I now realise i don’t need it any more.

So - what’s the best web based RSS reader?

Google have recently released an awesome new feature on thier Maps service: Satellite images. Unfortunately for us it only really covers North America. Nevertheless, I’m addicted to looking at these images.

There is a shitload of interest in this and people are having a lot of fun with the satellite shots.

An entire web log has started to chronical all the wonderful images people stumble across. My only wish is that it will come to our part of the world…