The people behind Gaea+ are at it again with another applet, this one showing the Race Across America.  The RAAM is a race to see how long it would take to bike across America and the concept was started in 1887, but it became a race in the 1970’s.

Since the race for 2009 has ended, the applet is not being updated, but the applet works like this: It shows the course and its profile, the time stations and the competitors. Unfortunately the positions of the latter are not available so they are shown between the last crossed time station and the next one, sorted by their average speed.

This applet was very nicely done, and Daniel covered it on a more timely manner than I did.

Here is a screen shot of the applet:

Last Thursday was a good day for navigational related comics it seems.  Well, at least in my paper it was.

First up was an Argyle Sweater comic, playing on the old adage “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

And next up in the same day was a Beetle Bailey comic, showing that the best navigational aids, are sometimes the oldest.

I came across this interesting SD Memory card on Amazon the other week, it is the Eye-Fi Explore Wi-Fi Wireless SD Memory Card.  So, with this card, if you are near your home network.. or any open network, you can wirelessly transfer your images to your home computer as you take them.

But what makes this card really interesting over the other Wi-Fi versions the manufacture has, is that this card can also geo-locate the images as you take them.

Using its built-in Wi-Fi, the Eye-Fi Card locates any surrounding Wi-Fi networks as you take pictures. Then, the Eye-Fi Service translates that data into geographic location and adds the information to each picture.

I have not gotten one to try, but for 90% of the pictures I take, this would not work as I am nowhere near any wireless access points.  So this is best used in urban and city locations.

Well, I see it has been over a month since my last post… well, I have had several things going on.. decided to also take a break, and I also had my main work laptop die on me with a video card failure. So, I have been working on restoring data to an older desktop.

I will be back up to posting semi-regularly soon.. I have about 20 things to post about so look forward to that soon.

If anyone wants to help me get a replacement laptop, they are welcome too contact me. (Kind of cuts down on what I can do travel wise if I can’t communicate)

WorldWind and I are not dead yet!

Today we had one of our four chicken BBQ’s we have during the year at the firehall, and is was good chicken.  Sorry, no leftovers.. we sold all 308 chicken halves.

Hope everyone is having a great XMas this year!