"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Ship Ahoy!

A chap called Ian McConnell who lives in New Brighton, has set up a superb website which uses Automatic Identification data (explained here) broadcast from international ships in the whole of the Irish Sea / Liverpool / Bay / Mersey / Manchester Ship Canal.

A fascinating insight into what goes on at sea and out of sight. Evidently a labour of love and done on worn out shoestrings, it demonstrates what powerful use can be made in real time data in the public domain, combining archive pictures, webcams, library ship data, live data and Google earth maps in a really powerful way.

Go here and discover more

Now if this could be done for airports .... Maybe it has, let me know

at 6/24/2006 05:27:00 pm

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