Usually I don’t notice street art but when the electrical boxes around town started being adorned with  into interesting colors and textures,  I couldn’t help but notice them.  I think it’s a great idea for an art project and makes the place looks interesting to say the least. I came home and did a bit of digging mainly to see where they were located so that I could go visit them on my walks having noticed a number of them near my...

 Wow when I left it was so cloudy no sun just thick clouds and a peak of blue now we’re floating above blue water, a shoreline and bright sun with scattered clouds. I have about 30 minutes left to arrival and I’m getting itchy and scratchy coz I need to hit the restroom but I don’t want the tiny lavatory on the plane. I can’t believe that this airline limit you to 40 lbs checked baggage and don’t give you...

We spend about 75% of our time indoors yet most of the maps you see are outdoors. I remember having a chat with a colleague about how nice it would be to map the inside of our local airport. Well Google has done just that. I was checking out the midway airport in Chicago a couple of days ago and as I zoomed there was the Potbelly Sandwich shop on the map.  They are by no means the first to create indoor maps and post them to the web but its...

Once in a while I like to take a look at cheap or open source GIS software to help out folks looking for a quick/cheap alternative to the ESRI suite of products. Maybe all they want to do is open a shape file, change a few things, and make a quick map. Before QGIS got popular I had been following another open source project called MapWindow. Mapwindow comes in 2 flavors… MapWindow 4- the stable version 4 and Mapwindow 6- the experimental...

I came home in the dark it was a little after 5PM. Its not supposed to be this dark but with all the rainclouds and wind out there it felt like I was on my way to Minas Morgul. I was very happy to make it into my little cave and find out that the power was still kicking up here in the hills but the 22 mph wind and 36 mph gust has been making some gosh awful noises against the windows since I came home. So far the power is still holding so...

I recently attended the 2012 NYS Geospatial Summit where I had the pleasure of listening to Dr. Roger Tomlinson AKA the “Father of GIS.” Many people were wowed to have him speak to us I was sitting there trying to glean some words of wisdom from the man being that he’s described as the Father of GIS and all of that. He showed us many slides mainly about the number of GIS applications at-large and how the industry has grown. He...

I did a write-up back in 2006 on some programs on my Mac Mini that I wish would get migrated to the Windows platform. I’m still holding out for Curio mind- mapping software from Zengobi but the wait is over for Skitch. Not only did I like the large pink heart-shaped icon,  I used Skitch to many photos , drawings and screen shots over the years to communicate with various friends and business folks alike. It was fast and quick and easy as...

I couldn’t help but sneaking a peak at the blogs today since I was eagerly anticipating the news about the new iPad Mini. See one of my colleague and I had a bet going about the price. Would Apple go below $250 or stay closer to $350. I figured since the iPad 2 was $399 they would make the new Mini ~ $299 but they just could not cooperate and so it came in $30 higher than I was expecting. I did not anticipate a new iPad RD though…...

I’m back after taking a long extended break from site updates. I suppose I just wasn’t in the mood to sit at my computer and write. Not much to say and there was too much outdoor fun to be had. Well Winter is almost here and now that I’m indoors again I suppose I don’t have much excuse. Many things have changed since I was away. We’re two weeks  away from another Presidential election (my time flies), Tim Cook has...

So it seems that I can’t get away lately from reading about the yet to be announced iPad Mini. Apparently, I have a couple more days to wait. The new onslaught of tablets this year from the Google Nexus, Microsoft officially read to be pre-ordered Surface and the new sleek and sexy Kindle Fires Apple has its job cut out for them. Will they blow away the competition? Probably but we’ll just have to wait and see. I have one thing to...

I’ve been trying my best to stay away from the whole iPhone 5 complaints in the news of late but I have to add my two cents as the list seems to be growing every time I check out my news feeds. The major ones include: The New IOS 6 Maps- People can’t find where they are going apparently wow geewiz you mean you haven’t used Google Maps and gotten lost before how is this any different? The other thing is that this is version 1...

Good grief I’m a day older today. I did nothing of major significance. I woke up late as usual for Saturday, spent some time cleaning up, made myself something to eat, cleaned up a bit and spent some time setting up my computer. It was kinda cold outside so I decided to stay in instead of venturing out therewith all that wind and rain and other undesirable weather. Sucks its usually Sunny and nice on my birthday what happened I suppose I...