December 2008
remembering why I can’t stand soda / pop. sugary sweet and unsatisfying
making my tiles promiscuous. You know you want to check ‘em out
this naan is HUGE
What’s the equivalent of OPML for sets of Twitter followers?
Satellite imagery over London is Copyright 2009 in GoogleEarth - must have figured out how to look into the future lightcone
Washington Post might need to increase their clustering maximum http://tinyurl.com/92e2u7
playing in large amorphous agglomerations of high moisture content and low visibility
in the office on a Sunday - at first wondering why, but then remembering how awesome it is to ship great tools
blazing up the interstate of memories, pulling from the past and reconnecting with the present
thoroughly enjoyable evenings of wine, chatting, fires, and family to realize the importance of physical co-location to the spirit
helping build the next generation of rocket scientists http://twitpic.com/wcfy
pre-Christmas Green Man Belgian Ale at Jack of the Woods in Asheville, yeasty http://twitpic.com/vyfg
Traversing the eastern seaboard, enroute to family festivites (with a short foray into local fermentables tasting in Asheville)
wow, Merb and Rails - sitting in a tree, http://tr.im/merb_and_rails
at the buzzer, pre-holiday travel, bug smashing score - FTW!
just when you think things are calming down… BLAM! full on excitement
Pandas… In Lights!
new books arrived: Data Flow, JavaScript the Good Parts and Sketching User Experiences - going to be a fun holiday
awesome @migurski ! now to finish up my half of that request…
product completion and shipping is subject to Zeno’s dichotomy paradox - you’re always just need to get half-way to the goal
what if satellite imagery on maps was updated to match the season? http://tr.im/summer_winter
I’m conflating MB, GB, and TB - unfortunately the same thing is happening in global economies with Million, Billion, and Trillion $
great holiday party with friends, and won’t hold it against them that they’re hokies (b/c I’m quarter-hokie)
finally handling a number of project updates: Mapstraction re-archictecting, GeoPress with OSM
my KML file made GoogleEarth cry. May have been the hundreds of 3MB image icons
purchasing OmniGraffle - is Pro worth it? and thanks to all the help with getting the missing DB stencil
this looks very interesting - rt @MattH: State of participatory journalism report released http://is.gd/cp1G
oh noes - GISUser is spamming me with over-priced ArcGIS plugins. You mean I can have KML *and* HTML for $$$?
thx @gletham for the prompt customer service. btw - have you played with an N97 yet?
too bad neither Ira Flatow nor WAMU have Twitter accounts - since they’re talking with @timoreilly about Twitter and social media
thanks for the pointers to @scifri - @NPR doing a great job in many aspects on embracing technology in media
based on the approximate time of a single computer operation in ms, then 15 seconds of fame can be a *lot* of digital coverage
realizing I’m not going to make it to a party due to overwhelming hard deadline. Why can’t work get out of the way of human interaction
in depth discussion on the disparity between Web2.0 and Enterprise. Enterprise doesn’t trust the web or users, so how to engage comfort zone
need a quick script to archive the history of a Twitter tag/search? I put this together for #ASD http://gist.github.com/37499
I wish I could dedicate an entire core on my computer just to the browser to be able to load pages quickly regardless of machine load
GeoCommons holiday party at CarPool, however we took metro to get here
hrm can’t find a simple “database” stencil for OmniGraffle. only one is a 404
via @codepo8 - does the increase of limited micro-blogging reduce the link-valuation of sites and tools? http://tinyurl.com/6dncds #yahoo
ah, the wild world of GeoRSS quirks - broadly supported unfortunately means broad implementation variations as well
making old technology new again
IRC is awesome - you can pretty much bet on any major project or community having #room presence.
my computer is quickly deorbiting into a slag of molten aluminum and code bits
trace compounds nom
strategerie
Appealing to SXSW about the lack of any quality mapping or cartographic design and usability panels. Call your SXSW representative today!
crowd-sourced ballot recount: http://senaterecount.startribune.com - it’s scary that most of these ballots look fine, but still challenged
working very hard to get this blog post out - it’s only been… 2 weeks? but it’ll be good, I promise
I like the idea of Amazon Reader for digital books - but I can only read when online and in their app? I want offline PDF like Prag/O’Reilly
thx @jstogdill for giving me a chance to talk about open transit data and multi-modal routing. Interesting future. http://tr.im/open_transit