[Newsclip] Google Maps Nighttime

Google Maps Nighttime takes the 128 megapixel NASA's "Earth Lights" image and adds a Google Map interface to it using the Google Maps application program interface (API). There are 7 zoom levels to it.

http://digg.com/links/Google_Maps_Nighttime

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[Newsclip] Javascript Shows More GMail Features

The same guy who predicted the Gmail for domains last week has found two new lines of code that hint at voicemail and evites.com integration.

http://digg.com/technology/Javascript_Shows_More_GMail_Features

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[Newsclip] How Computers Work

"Roger Young has a great free PDF on how computers work "This is a tutorial web book. All 152 pages of the large paperback book with 96 diagrams are on 38 web pages here. Even if you know nothing about electronics, you have come to the right place. If you are wondering how microprocessors work, you have come to the right place."

http://digg.com/technology/How_Computers_Work_2 "

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[Newsclip] Randy K. Milholland

"Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing."
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http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Randy_K._Milholland

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Olympics

We're watching the Olympics with our friend Susan. Here's the trivia as it comes up:

During the parade of nations, we were discussion the way each country has a different name in very language here are the Countries by native names from Wikipedia.

Happy Chinese New Year

If you would like to see your name in Chinese, go here.

If you prefer ancient Egyptian, try this.

More gift ideas for techies

Other gifts fromThink Geek: Original Ring Thing; cellphone headset, drink mug with lightning in it, PC remote control, electronic binoculars.

Happy Holidays!

Aside from the graduates of RPI, another product of Troy NY was the first publication of "The Night before Christmas"

P.S. If you are thinking of getting me something for Christmas: Landroller skates, Nokia N90, more to follow...

Virtual Acquarium

Brush up on your Jedi Lightsaber skills!

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Pneumatic Home Elevator

Check out this new home elevator. No winches or hyrdaulics. It moves you up and down like one of the old pneumatic mailing tubes.

This image shows the current phase:

In the car...

 It's been quite an interesting wknd so far. (This will ramble a bit, but I'll clean it up when I get home. I'm writing this on the way to the boat in the car @ 4:19. ]

We started this trip off brite and early yesterday, my friends picked me up at. 7 am and we made it all the way to 62nd on the first leg. 

Then the grinding noise started, we hopped out to see what was dragging and it turned out to be the left rear wheel.  We popped it off and saw that the recent brake work he had done did not include attaching the brake assy with the bolts to hold it on.

It was quite interesting breaking down in NYC (is that a song?). People would walk by and stare, but noone offered to help.  The cops offered to giive us a ticket until we pointed out that we were broken down.  The officer then said "oh" and left us to fend for ourselves.

So you would think that you could get a simple 15 minute repair in a city of 8 MM people. It's not the case.  We called AAA and they sent a truck who offered to tow the car to a garage that could not do repairs until Monday.  We sent him away thinking we could repair it ourselves and limp back to a garage the could give us 2 std bolts.

I started googling furiously (I love using that verb) on my blackberry 7290. I found many repair shops, but noone did repairs on the weekends, incl the 'emergency' #s I found.  I started looking for parts companies, but no good either. (So much for telling people that I live in a city where I can have anything delivered any time I want (incl women).

So we decided to press on with our trip since there were 3 of us and we had another car we could use.  We then had a movie moment where 1 of our party could not finish the trip so we patched him up and left him with provisions for the wait for the rescue party.

So this is the story of my first "brake job", I've always been too afraid of working on my own brakes, but emergenvcies have a way of making heroes out of us. The brakes are really simple to figure out if you are an engineer [I'll incl details when I get online]

So then we finally arrived in MD and relaxed after the long drive by telling the tale with a few more details so far.  Our hosts then asked if we could do them a favor, loading 2 hay wagons into their barn's hay loft.  [Details and photos to follow from david's palm treo. I have really bad phone envy. I forgot my camera, so I have to rely on other people's snaps]

[Enuf for now, I'm getting "blackberry thumb" syndrome]

Mark
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Google Maps - Flood St, New Orleans, LA

Google has maps/photos of the Katrina damage