Paul Jacobson

Category: Travel and places

  • Take that hooter and go bleep yourself

    I work in a converted garage which is adjacent to a converted house which serves as office space for my landlord, Hypertext Media (great people), and some other company with an endless supply of employees with cars who need to get in and out of the complex every 10 to 15 minutes. The problem is…

  • If Tashas was a teahouse

    I saw this great photo and immediately thought about Tashas, the restaurant chain. One of the things I love about Tashas is the hanging stuff that seems to be thematic. The Tashas in The Zone has hanging books and the one in Atholl Square (the first one I went to), has these great hanging cups,…

  • Monte view

      I took a couple shots of the view from Cerebra’s office earlier today. It’s quite a spectacular view.

  • Missed opportunities in retail architecture

    I was at Design Quarter this morning and took this photo while on a walk back to where I was working. It reminded me how we have such intriguing and remarkable architecture in our shopping malls and next generation business districts and yet the companies which own or run these developments seem to regard efforts…

  • How to tease women

    Noticed this on my way up to Cerebra’s offices this morning. There are probably women’s rights organizations protesting this sort of abuse.

  • Explore your world with Google Liquid Galaxy

    I just watched this amazing demonstration of a few Google employees’ 20% project called Google Liquid Galaxy which uses a series of LCD panels and a seemingly seamless combination of Google’s location services like Google Earth and Google Maps to present a fairly immersive virtual experience. Its worth watching this in 480p and full screen!…

  • Ovi Maps just became a lot more useful to me

    Ok, so you know that Nokia has given away navigation for life for Ovi Maps, right? Nokia also released a new version of Ovi Maps which makes location sharing that much easier. So what makes Ovi Maps interesting now? Well, the “Share location” icon is your key to more dynamic location-based social activity. Ovi Maps…

  • Nokia to offer free, worldwide turn-by-turn navigation

    Nokia has dropped a bombshell and will be offering free turn-by-turn navigation on its smartphones. This is according to a Reuters report which I found via Engadget. The report is apparently based on a release of some kind from Nokia which I haven’t been able to locate yet Update: This news seems to be part…