Today I saw an article published by the Guardian on a discovery that the Apple iPhone stores location data locally and has done since iOS4, the article can be found here. The article includes a link to some open source Mac software to view your movements, unfortunately “I’m a PC” so I wondered how I could extract the same data and plot it on a map, and it was actually fairly easy, although I didn’t go for the animations or time based stuff of where I was when.
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Does Cancer Matter To Twitter Users?
OK, so it’s a controversial title for one of my first blog entries but now I might have your attention it’s an interesting topic, I think. If you’re on twitter then you will be aware of the various hashtags used for cancer, two of the main ones I see are #BoobWednesday and #KickCancer. These are primarily used by women to promote awareness of breast cancer, however I see very little from men on the subject. Why is that? Is it just that we (men) don’t think about it, know all we need to or just want bury our head in the sand?
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