Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Pedalin’ the TWiT

Just in from a nice long run in the Sprite (wishing for the new Super Sprite). This is the second “Coat Hanger” I’ve done recently on Long Pond The length, in fact, exactly matched that of the excellent tech podcast that has long been an integral part of my every weekend: Windows Weekly #163 with [...]

Posted on 3-July-2010 at 12:55 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Health & Fitness, Long Pond, Technology

Ignite my butt!

Two presentations to prepare–start to finish–over the next two weeks! Ignite. What it is and how to give one (as per the famed Scott Berkun) Urisa: The Association of GIS Professionals

Posted on 13-February-2010 at 13:24 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: DataViz, Design, GIS, Technology

Final Patent from HP

At least, I am not aware of any others in the hopper. This one took nearly 4 years from the date of filing!  Looks like it is now listed at the European Patent Office as well. Abstract of US 2007172151  (A1) Translate this text Methods and apparatus are disclosed for guiding a camera user to take [...]

Posted on 7-February-2010 at 10:42 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Creativity, Photography, Technology

The Windows franchise. A retrospective

Some thoughts gathered in preparation for hosting a Windows 7 Launch Party Click and drag this timeline: Please upgrade your browser Windows 1.0 Released: 20 November 1985 info wiki Trivia: Windows 1.01 replaced 1.0 a few weeks after release due to a keyboard input problem. A few months after release, Balmer was in true form [...]

Posted on 26-October-2009 at 16:39 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Technology

Call Me

Posted on 27-September-2009 at 12:52 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Technology

Finally! WordPress for BlackBerry

Well, it’s a bit crude – but then it’s open source… IMG00304-20090925-1842.jpg IMG00299-20090925-1838.jpg [well that fairly well sucks. Full image upload isnt a viable option I guess.  I had to go into the HTML and tweak the size to get these images reduced down]

Posted on 26-September-2009 at 05:54 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Photography, Technology, Tools

Let his dataset change your mindset.

Hans Rosling — our modern-day hero of data visualization — has done it again.

Posted on 30-August-2009 at 19:13 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Science, Software Design, Technology

…And all through the house not a creature was stirring…

Posted on 9-July-2009 at 20:55 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Software Design, Technology

Long Pond Geotracking

A nice Father’s Day morning workout in the Nauticraft tracked with InstaMapper.   Just in case, here’s a screengrab of the live map below.

Posted on 21-June-2009 at 11:50 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: GIS, Health & Fitness, Long Pond, Technology

DeepZoom Long Pond

Posted on 3-May-2009 at 08:15 by Douglas · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Long Pond, Photography, Technology