Take Google Street View with its panoramic navigation, integrate the standard orthographic maps, add other interactive location specific data, such as shop names, building/house numbers or landmarks and smoothly animate in and out to a side-on navigation system for rapidly whizzing around the streets – that’s Microsoft’s new Street Slide, I think it’s pretty impressive.
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Yesterday we came runners up in the Crain’s Best Places to Work 2010 but—perhaps more importantly—we won the best dressed table award with a beautiful desert island-themed display.
I didn’t go to the awards lunch, but judging from everyone’s rosy, alcohol-tinged demeanours afterwards, those who did had a great time.
—Ben

Please convince those around you to sign up and be there for THE sleeping rough event of the year, we will be doing it again, and would really like to share the experience with other folks from the industry.

A handful of the more fit and healthy members of Code ran all 10 kilometres in the Great Manchester Run last Sunday. Congratulations to everyone who ran. I thought it apt to run while I was at the gym that day—I managed about 2k and it felt like I was having an asthma attack.
—Ben

When you are cycling up to 120 miles a day, 6 days a week, for 10 weeks, you don’t want to spend your day off sitting in a dark internet cafe waiting for a page to load so you can post to your blog.
Working in a digital media company, you would think i would have [...]