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I like the *idea* of WordPress as a blogging tool. I like having it all on my hosted space because it somehow feels more secure to me (although I’m not sure why I trust DreamHost more than Blogger).
I’m still not familiar with the new-to-me system of Word Press, though, to feel comfortable with it. For […]

In my last post I lamented that Panoramio and GeoTagger did not *seem* to play together. I was very wrong. GeoTagger does indeed add GPS coordinates to the EXIF jpegs, and Panoramio does indeed read that EXIF info and map the jpegs appropriately. It all works like butter.
Here’s where “user error” (my bad) came into […]

**neither work in WordPress!!** (This is a serious limitation of WP, methinks)Trippermap might be cool. Let’s see…
Get your own Trippermap!
vs. Panoramio
Okay, Tripper Map has potential, but the free version is not detailed enough for us; we’d need the “$10/year” version that incorporates the Google Map API. So, the question is, do we […]

(this doesn’t seem to work…)
Test 1 (HTML code):
Test 2 (HTML for blogs):
Get your own Trippermap!
(It strikes me as not working for me…)

From OgleEarth, of course, comes a post of a brilliant person with ideas.This one is much easier than the Flickr Geotagging process I mentioned on 8/22/06, and more fun because you get to mess around in Google Earth (which recently got updated to v4, by the way).
Here’s how it works: Geotagger prepares images by […]

It always happens. You get a new tool, a new blog, a new website or presence, and you inevitably have to write something. Otherwise the presence isn’t yours. It’s like sticking that flag in the ground, or making some mark on it that says “I was here.”

This article, Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find, is a truly funny, and somewhat disconcerting article that might better explain why the Deciders of the world make the decisions that they do.
People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of […]

My .Mac membership expires in 3 days, and rather than renew it for a third year, I’ve decided to not put up with the shoddiness of .Mac (at a premium price — not the kind of thing I expect from Apple), and instead get a much bigger, fully hosted site (for much less money).
Consequently, my […]

Okay, consider it checked off on my list of “Things to do before I die” — it actually wasn’t ever on the list, but now that I’ve done it, I never need to do it again.
I like to think of myself as a pretty open-minded fellow. One who thinks that two consenting adults can do […]