Author: Frank

• August 4, 2008ESRIUC, general

  ESRI 2008 UC – Morning Keynote Notes!

  Here are my notes from the keynote this morning. It’s heavily weighted toward the desktop and server technologies. They’re unfiltered with quirky comments, so forgive the stream of conciousness (and […]

• July 26, 2008general, General

  Remote Sensing Teaches Us the Cause of The Northern Lights

  Thanks to NASA, the age old question of what causes the Northern Lights has been solved! NASA satellites from the THEMIS project were able to watch the whole sequence between […]

• July 25, 2008Cool Stuff, Gadgets, general, GeographyAwareness

  Microsoft Surface Sphere

  Remember back in april we reported about Sensisphere’s new touchable display that’s in the form of a hemisphere? Well apparently the good people at Microsoft do (they got the idea […]

• July 25, 2008General, general, Hardware

  Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!

  Anyone who’s worked in GIS with more than two people can tell you that one person is critical to keeping all this stuff working…. the system administrator. Today happens to […]

• July 21, 2008Gadgets, general, Hardware, Navigation, space (not spatial)

  A New GPS System…. On the Moon?

  Engadget is reporting an interesting new system that’s being created. Researchers over at Ohio State University (a hop, skip, and 4 hour drive from here) are attempting to make a […]

• July 10, 2008general, Human Geography

  Ghost Towns

  I find it fascinating to think about the places human’s choose to call home. Some places are clearly understandable – like along a river – while others are rather perplexing. […]

• July 8, 2008general, Human Geography

  Wanna race in the Tour de France?

  …. but you’re too lazy to train? Well the helpful people at Google feel your pain! Google has outlined the route of the Tour in their Street view application. You […]

• July 7, 2008Environmental, general, Human Geography

  Gas Prices Got You Down?

  If you drove anywhere of note in the US this weekend, you couldn’t help but note the uptick in gas prices yet again. If you were wondering where might be […]

• June 27, 2008general, General

  Big Ole’ World!

  Ubisoft, maker of… well… LOTS of video games, is working on Far Cry 2. For those not in the video game know, Far Cry has pushed the limits of PC […]

• June 19, 2008general, General

  ABC News Asks: “Will GPS Make Us Dumb?”

  It’s an aged old arguement, that the reliance on newer technologies makes us less capable than we were before. I’ve never completely bought that arguement myself. Yes, it is true […]