Android Google Maps offline

It’s a labs feature, so you have to do some fiddling to enable it, but this is a great addition. Android Google Maps takes users offline. You have to choose to download the area around a location rather than have it happen automatically, but it covers a 10km...

Oborne brilliant on NOTW

Classic essay: What the papers won’t say. He also has more to say about the Chipping Norton set. Thanks to Alex for the link to an interesting perspective from the US.

A restless world

Some collected readings from the last few days. China from a Russian perspective: China got special economic zones right, it learns from and adapts from experiences elsewhere in the world (the rule is to act gradually)  The Chinese retain a strong sense of...

Google+

I can’t use Google+, not because I am not cool enough to have been invited, but because I pay Google for services (for Google Apps to run Raggett.net mail and extra storage on Picasa). This seems a little odd in terms of customer service, but that’s how...

A good news story

Because there are so few reported. Woman Catches Child From 10th Floor Fall, Awarded 200k – chinaSMACK.