Archive for October 4th, 2006





EarthAlbum – GoogleMaps with Flickr and YouTube

Oct 4th, 2006 | By

I haven’t posted about a Google Maps mashup in quite awhile, but I read about EarthAlbum over on the GoogleMapsMania blog and had to check it out. It mashes up Google Maps, Flickr and YouTube to link to photos and video for locations around the world. Right now, the Flickr and YouTube interfaces are separate, [...]



5,000 Years of Rule in the Middle East

Oct 4th, 2006 | By

With the Iraq war very current for the US, especially in the media, it sometimes helps to take a bit of an historical view of the region. Simply put, the Middle East has been in claimed by lots of different empires in the last 5,000 years. Luckily for those with a tenuous grasp of the [...]



GIS and multi-core computers

Oct 4th, 2006 | By

I saw the posts by Rob and James a couple of weeks ago about multicore and 64 bit but was too sick to kick in at the time. Now that the coughing has stopped, I want in. Before I left my day job to go back to try to finish that school thing, I had [...]