Filed under: work, ArcGIS Server, Virtual Earth
Unlike the last eight months, my Release Per Month this month has nothing to do with Laser Hockey or the Nintendo DS. I have started to build a Virtual Earth tile server for ArcGIS Server, a GIS map server technology we use at work. I'm calling it Virtual AGS. While I don't have anything I can demo ( Read more... )

Filed under: geeky

"LOLCODE is an attempt to produce a programming language based upon the grammatical style of lolcats"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

Filed under: ArcGIS Server, work, Google maps
While it doesn't do much yet, I finally have some code that requests location data from ArcGIS Server and zooms a Google map to the feature's location. Ya gotta start somewhere...


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Large photos moved here: http://mancomb.livejournal.com/30262.html?thread=35382#t35382

Filed under: work, imaging
I attempted to open a 3.5 GB JPEG 2000 image over a network drive using IM Display from ImageMagick. That was a mistake I will never make again. How the client even managed to get a JP2 file that large is beyond me. It was a high resolution aerial photo of Nantucket, MA but still...with an average compression ratio of 18: ( Read more... )

Filed under: Nintendo DS, homebrew
I'm not pretending to be an artist, but it's a fun program and I felt like sharing :) Both were drawn on a bouncing train ride home...not that I would do any better if I was on the most stable earth on the planet.

The Assabet River


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Filed under: gaming
So, I still play Puzzle Quest. After you defeat a creature three times, you have the option of capturing it. To do so, you have to solve a gem puzzle. I just solved the Arboleth puzzle. It was sort of easy but something about how it worked was really neat, like a well-designed machine. Matt may find out what I mean since he has ( Read more... )

Filed under: work
Earlier this week, I went to the kitchen and got a cup of water from the filtered water cooler. What was supposed to be cold and clean actually tasted warm and dirty. I thought there was something wrong with me so I tried another sip. Nope, still gross! When I got back to my desk, I got an email from the secretary saying that ( Read more... )

Filed under: gaming, friends, CSH
My purchase of a scanning-tunneling-telescopic camera finally paid off! From my Boston apartment, I snapped* a photo of Nate talking to Ron Gilbert in CA.


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My company is placing an office supply order and the secretary asked if there is anything I need. I think I should request an unlimited supply of BIC pens. Then, when I inevitably fling my current pen onto the floor because I have been subconsciously playing with it, I can just leave it there. My floor will become a pen graveyard for discarded ( Read more... )