Obses­sion of the week: Google Earth. Man that’s cool. Dave’s been busily find­ing and book­mark­ing all the places we’ve lived (there’s lots). Places we’ve vis­ited. Then there’s the places we want to visit. It’s awesome.

Raises a few ques­tions about pri­vacy, though. My par­ents have a much higher expec­ta­tion of pri­vacy than I do. I think the next gen­er­a­tion will have an even lower expec­ta­tion than this one. If you want to go some­where unob­served in 20 years time… under­ground will be about it.

There’s also Google Maps… I got all excited and signed up for my Mum’s site, to replace the dodgy loca­tion map she’s got. I was also think­ing it would be fan­tas­tic for Look At WA (the site my work expe­ri­ence stu­dents main­tain) — a detailed map for each tourist attrac­tion and zone. But unfor­tu­nately, there’s no detailed maps for Aus­tralia yet. I hope they expand it soon.

I think the slight back­lash against Google at the moment is unwar­ranted… they are using their mega-billions to do some cool stuff. And so far, it’s mostly been free. I guess we’ll see how long that lasts.