Thursday 5 July 2012 (Phil Gyford’s website)

Facebook should make a camera ( 3 Jul., 2012, at Interconnected): I'm still amazed how unprogressive the camera market is. Aside from lack of product design innovation, cameras are so unconnected. Here we are in 2012 and very, very few even have wifi or GPS, never mind 3G, slick interfaces, integration with third-party services, etc.
Building and dismantling the Windows advantage | asymco: Blimey, those are quite some graphs, showing ratio of Windows:Mac, and Windows:Apple sales over time. (via Daring Fireball)

5 Jul 2012 at Twitter

09:19am: @simonw Horrible isn’t it. Puts me off more than the queues.

02:13pm: Over 9.5 years I added 56,642 hyperlinks to Mr Pepys’ 3,434 diary entries. There are 4,790 Encyclopedia topics and 69,585 comments.

02:27pm: @DeanVipond Hey, you should come up and see my traffic stats sometime.

05:55pm: Large swing band playing outside the Langham. London has pleasantly surprised me the last couple of days. Must get out more.

08:46pm: Heading towards some crowds heading towards the Shard. #PhilFacts

09:35pm: I get the sense nobody planned for thousands of people standing on London Bridge this evening.

09:44pm: 10.42 and I see my first police. I'm guessing they were somehow taken by surprise.

09:56pm: The Shard is the most anti-climactic building in Europe. #shardfacts

09:57pm: But even so, it was still lovely to be out on a warm night with thousands of good natured Londoners blocking traffic. More of that.

09:59pm: @boringfileclerk But boring is not good when you've advertised a spectacular laser light show opening ceremony.

10:31pm: The lasers did look brighter and more impressive from 20 minutes walk away. But up close Tower Bridge looked much better than the Shard.

10:32pm: @suegyford No, too far away / wrong angle. Which I thinks possibly a good thing.

Thursday 5 July 2012