La orden, que collection del 19 de abril, es la restricción más importante de las actividades de las tropas en Internet desde street railway comienzo de la guerra de Irak, según informa hoy la prensa estadounidense.

Choo-choo without paracaidista Matthew Payload, leg man de la antología "The Blog referring to Endeavor" ("Junction blog de la guerra"), afirmó que "éste es way train clavo conclusive sobre special ataúd de los blogs de combates". "Not at all habrá más bloggers militares escribiendo sobre sus experiencias en la zona de combate. Éstas buddy las mejores relaciones públicas que tienen los militares y está siendo silenciada", añadió.

Las nuevas medidas (que están publicadas en Internet) también afectan a los civiles que trabajan para choo-choo Ejército, a los contratistas de los militares e incluso las familias de los soldados.

Publicado enClarín, Argentina.

Iniziamo il viaggio.....

1. Il Guardiano delle Badlans

   
   
   
   Battezzata Il Guardiano delle Badlans dalla gente del posto, questa meraviglia geologica (coordinate Google Earth 50.010083,-110.113006) assomiglia in modo impressionante a una testa umana che indossa un copricapo indiano (e anche un paio di cuffie, a dirla tutta). Naturalmente, il Guardiano è stato prodotto dalla natura.
   

2. Lago a forma di essere umano

   
   
   
   Per ammirare un’altra “meraviglia” che si può apprezzare solo dall’alto, questa volta creata dall’uomo, date un’occhiata al gigantesco lago a forma di essere umano (-21.805149,-49.089977) vicino a Bauru, in Brasile.

3. Coniglio rosa gigante

   
   
   
   Una delle attività più diffuse nella folta community di Google Earth è quella di scovare cose gigantesche e decisamente particolari. Questo coniglio rosa gigante (Coordinate Google Earth 44.244273,7.769737) a Prato Nevoso, in Italia, è stato realizzato da un gruppo di artisti viennesi, secondo quanto riportato su Internet. E lungo più di 70 metri e si chiama “Hare”.

4. Cerchio nel deserto

   
   
   
   Senza dubbio, Google Earth è la cosa migliore che poteva capitare ai cosiddetti “Crop Circle”, ovvero ai giganteschi e misteriosi cerchi visibili solo dall’alto che alcuni dicono essere opera degli alieni... Questo cerchio nel deserto nei dintorni di Beatty, in Nevada (coordinate Google Earth 37.401437,-116.86773), è solo uno delle centinaia di oggetti simili individuati con il software di Google. Se pensate che scovando un numero adeguato di questi oggetti potreste scoprire qualche indizio importante sulla vita aliena, scaricate questa serie di segnaposto.

5. Addestramenti militari

   
   
   
   Se lavorate nei servizi segreti, dovete tenere conto che Google Earth rende praticamente impossibile nascondere oggetti troppo grandi. Si ritiene che questa immagine sia la rappresentazione in scala (grande 4,6 chilometri quadrati) di una regione di confine contesa tra Cina e India. I cacciatori di tesori di Google Earth l’hanno trovata in una zona remota del centro-nord della Cina (coordinate Google Earth 38.265652,105.9517). Secondo una teoria esposta dalla rivista australiana The Age, questo modello in scala servirebbe per addestrare i piloti di carri armati.

6. Gente in spiaggia

   
   
   
   Se passate troppo tempo usando Google Earth, potreste iniziare a pensare che il mondo ha una risoluzione piuttosto bassa... Ma Google Earth sta continuamente aggiornando le sue mappe, integrando anche immagini riprese non solo da satellite, ma anche da aerei ad alta quota, potendo offrire immagini a risoluzioni sempre più elevate. Ingrandite al massimo questa vista da Google Earth della spiaggia australiana Bondi Beach (Coordinate Google Earth -33.892351,151.27538) e potrete quasi riuscire a leggere la marca dei bikini...

7. Cascate Victoria

   
   
   
   Niente può sostituire un volo a bassa quota in aeroplano, ma Google Earth vi può dare un piccolo assaggio di quello che potete aspettarvi da una visita ad alcune delle destinazioni turistiche più famose. Questa spettacolare immagine mostra le cascate Victoria (coordinate Google Earth -17.925511,25.858223) al confine tra Zambia e Zimbawe. Altre destinazioni virtuali che vale la pena di sorvolare sono il Monte Everest (27.985866,86.92844) e il Monte Kilimanjaro (-3.0726042,37.343093).

8. Logo Coca-Cola

   
   
   
   Gigantesco logo Coca-Cola (-18.529225,-70.25002) ricavato sul fianco di una collina in Cile con 70 mila bottiglie di Coca Cola. Forse non sanno come riciclare i vuoti?

9. Aerei parcheggiati in posti strani

   
   
   
   Questa immagine ha bisogno di pochi commenti...avete tutti un caccia parcheggiato sotto casa no?

10. Lago rosso in Iraq

    
    
    

Altra immagine molto misteriosa...mah

[Via PCWorld]

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Salah satu karya Google yang sangat spesial menurut saya adalah Google Earth. Aplikasi ini mampu menampilkan bumi, mulai dari tampilan bola bumi sampai bangunan (dengan tampilan tiga dimensi) pencakar langit di kota-kota besar dunia. Hebatnya lagi aplikasi ini dapat berjalan di hampir semua sistem operasi (populer) saat ini, termasuk sistem operasi kesayangan kita 'GNU/Linux'.

Instalasi Google Earth di GNU/Linux termasuk Debian 4.0 juga terbilang mudah. Bahkan Debian (dan tentu saja distro-distro turunannya juga) telah menyediakan sebuah paket bernama googleearth-package yang akan membuatkan pake .deb Google Earth untuk Anda. Jika Anda menggunakan Debian 4.0 dan terkoneksi ke Internet, maka untuk memasang Google Earth cukup dengan mengetikkan:


$ sudo apt-get install googleearth-package
$ sudo googleearth-package

Atau jika tidak mempunyai koneksi Internet sendiri, silakan unduh dulu Google Earth, lalu dari terminal masuk ke direktori tempat unduhan, dan jalankan:


$ chmod chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
$ ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

Akan muncul jendela dialog seperti ini

Tentukan lokasi instalasi, jika sudah tekan tombol Begin Install untuk memulai instalasi. Tunggu sampai instalasi selesai:

Setelah pemasangan selesai, Google Earth akan membuatkan short cut di Desktop. Untuk memulai Google Earth klik ganda pada ikon tersebut. Sekarang Anda sudah dapat menjelajahi dunia hanya dengan memandangi monitor komputer:

James: Oh if only we were dead. How pleasant it would be, lying snugly together in the graveyard, fast asleep…

Tori: Why are you so gloomy this evening? Is it perhaps because somebody special is leaving?

Olaf: You’re leaving?

Tychy: She’s going to her husband’s farm in Portugal for the summer, to help him supervise the harvest. You’ll remember that idiot who was following her about - the one who couldn’t speak any English?

Tori: He can articulate his feelings when he wants to. I gather that he was rather unhappy about our last credit card bill.

Tychy: Well! She thinks that she’ll be sunbathing all day, but he’s of the alternative opinion that she’ll be tearing about in a combine harvester. It will all end in disaster. I hope that when they get divorced, Tori ends up with the farm.

James: Oh Victoria, please don’t go to Portugal. I can instinctively sense that you won’t enjoy it.

Tori: Why don’t you leave Edinburgh for a bit? When was the last time that you had a holiday?

James: I never go on holiday. I’m too delicate to travel and it jangles my nerves. Besides, everybody is here. Edinburgh is such a progressive cosmopolitan city - or at least it is for anyone under thirty, or for anyone who lives hand to mouth. Nationalism has never seemed so obsolete. Italians, Poles, Basques, Chinese, Brazilians, Australians - they're just cards which the city endlessly shuffles. And if the city deals so many exciting and challenging hands - and it offers so many adventures - then why bother to relocate to another city? It’s just a different coloured pack of cards.

Tori: But that’s a terrible attitude. If all of these people were just as lazy - sorry, as “delicate” - as yourself, then nobody would travel and there would be no cosmopolitanism.

James: Well I don’t so much admire cosmopolitanism as hate nationalism. Paradoxically, in a world in which cheap air travel allows tourist-migration and travel becomes an unremarkable commodity, the incentive to travel accordingly declines, because everywhere is the same, with the same commodities, services, educational resources and black market drugs, and the traveller needs to work harder and harder in order to glimpse something truly challenging and authentic.

Tori: But you can glimpse new things, or at least you can if you do some work. You once told me that you were a Surrealist, and that the whole point of that was to provoke all sorts of new, authentic reactions from a world of boring conformity. Surely travel can be part of that?

James: I guess so. But I recently wrote a piece for the website about Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno” [“On Babo and Black Leadership”], and part of my research involved using GoogleEarth to find Santa Maria, the island featured in the story. And I swooped down on to the west coast of South America, I poured over the beaches and islands, I zoomed in and shot out and dipped back down again, when I found the island I circumnavigated it, I measured it and calculated the time it would take to row around the harbour, and I studied a dozen or so photographs of its beaches and hills. GoogleEarth is only in its infancy, but it’s already an incredible educational resource. And, of course, people mechanically resort to cynicism and small-mindedness…

Tori: It’s often said that when somebody installs GoogleEarth, the first thing that they do is look at their own house.

Tychy: I look in my neighbour’s gardens…

James: You prove my point. There is an instinctive miserablism and churlishness to most people, and they seem simply unable to say, “wow, what a fantastic invention! Just think of all the opportunities which this provides! Thank heaven for progress!” As the technology elaborates, GoogleEarth will resemble a sort of universe in your pocket, an encyclopaedic dimension, a flying carpet which will deliver you to anywhere in the world. And the individual will be reduced to a blob plugged into a hyperreality, his consciousness swooping and diving around the world, all obstacles to human travel emphatically defeated.

Olaf: Thank heaven for progress.

Tori: On the subject of the website, which of you was responsible for the article about the Maltese basketball player? [“On Samuel Deguara”]

James: I would never write about anything as vulgar as competitive sport.

Tychy: He did write that one. I certainly didn’t.

Olaf: That pissed off quite a few people, didn’t it?

James: It was a good article. When I briefly met Samuel Deguara, who was competing in the championships at the Pleasance, I was reminded of a nightmare about a giant which I had experienced when I was a child. The article was about a small man’s terror of a giant, it was not about Deguara himself. But I was naïve, and I didn’t think that any Maltese basketball fans would notice our little website. When it comes to information about Samuel Deguara, there is a shortfall between supply and demand. That article is the most popular on the website - it attracts a good quarter of the visitors to Tychy - and I only wish that Deguara’s fans would set up their own websites, so that we would not get quite so much of his Google traffic.

Tychy: I often think that there should be a gentlemanly agreement between those over six foot not to play basketball. Their participation is unsporting. They have a very unfair advantage…

James: The solution would be to erect a special hoop for the tall at a greater distance from the ground.

Tori: But you would get anarchy. Somebody would insist upon another hoop for those under five foot, and then another would be installed for children, and then another for people in wheelchairs…

Tychy: The game would become far more complex and strategic.

Tori: Did you see that Rafael Nadal won Wimbledon yesterday? He is such a gorgeous guy. I cannot believe that a single woman in the world supported Federer in that match. Even his own girlfriend.

James: Nadal looks a pleasant chap, but I’m a little afraid that he is not quite compos mentis enough to appreciate his victory. He spends his entire life playing tennis. He must have a very stunted appreciation of reality. If I won Wimbledon, I’d be driven around for a month in a limousine full of Champaign and prostitutes and heroin, shouting “I am invincible!” at people in the street. But one suspects that this sort of thing is beyond Nadal…

Tychy: I think that the more you play tennis, the more the mind is erased. Rubbed out by the sheer boredom of it all!

James: Look at Tim Henman! The great comedienne Linda Smith once remarked that he was the human personification of the colour beige.

Tori: Enough of this! Nadal is a superman and, significantly, he’s also Spanish. That country has won both Euro 2008 and Wimbledon, and their entry to Eurovision was the best in the contest this year. Let us drink to Nadal’s health.

Omnes: Cheers!

• Christer Edwards: Install Google Earth on Ubuntu 8.04. The latest version of Google Earth has made an already fantastic program even better. Christer makes getting it installed easy and even gives a tip for those with slow performance.
• Ubuntu Forums: HOW TO: watch MLBtv on Ubuntu. Major League Baseball has some great media options for baseball fans including the ability to watch games right on your computer. Unfortunately they don't support Linux (of course), but dwdarkstar has put together a basic tutorial to let Linux loving baseball fans get their money's worth for subscribing to MLB's streaming media service.
• Mike Basinger: Using Dark Themes in Ubuntu (Gnome 2.2x). Many people love a nice dark theme for their computer but GNOME has always had some issues with it that affect usability. Mike has some great tips that can let you have both the dark theme and usability, too.
• Michael Garrido: Welcome Ghanima :) - My Own, precious… Notebook. Michael got a very nice little notebook from Compaq and he has some pics to show it off. It's one of my pics for the day thanks to a link to some very nice wallpaper. As soon as I saw it I had to get it for my wallpaper rotation. :)
• Christer Edwards: A Reminder About Upgrading Ubuntu… Many people haven't upgraded Ubuntu to Hardy yet, and with Ubuntu 8.04.1 coming down the pike soon Christer has a great post on some things you need to do when upgrading Ubuntu or any other operating system. I kind of wish he'd written this before Hardy was released a couple of months ago.
• SciFi Wire: Cast Endorses Jericho Movie. Rumors of a possible movie to carry on the twice-canceled CBS show are swirling around, and the actors who played Stanley Richmond and Emily Sullivan have said they'd love to portray those characters again.
• Chris Dufresne/LA Times: Dodgers' 50th anniversary isn't golden to all. I was sure I had blogged this but it turns out I only Stumbled it. Chris Dufresne writes a great look back at the Dodgers' first fifty years in the City of Angels (no, not those Angels, they don't even play in LA County). I especially love this

Hold it . . .

This isn't one of those syrupy retrospectives about a boy's love for his dog and the hometown Blue Crew, is it?

No.

This is actually man-bites-Dodger dog, an ode to ambivalence and the odd lack of a connection.

How do you explain it, occupying a half-century in the same area and barely exchanging glances?

• Britt Allcroft/LA Times: The George Carlin I knew. With the death of George Carlin on Sunday it's to be expected that every news organization in the free world would write something the man that not only took free speech and comedy to the Supreme Court, he also changed stand up comedy forever. But Allcroft knows a different George Carlin than everyone seems to be writing about. He knew the Carlin who took over for Ringo Starr on PBS' Shining Time Station, and he wrote a beautiful tribute for his friend George.

Big thanks to Susannah Clary for sharing a very funny (and rather timely) comic with Nanci and I. Nanci has some things to blog this afternoon but asked me to share it with you in case I get on before she does. I'd swear her schedule is crazier than mine is.

The crop circles of Google Earth...

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Girls from Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, west London, handed the shadow education minister a petition signed by 4,000 people.

He is backing calls to halt plans by the OCR exam board to end the subject.

Urging the government to step in Mr Johnson said the course was of huge importance to Britain and its culture.

Speaking outside parliament on Monday the Henley-on-Thames MP said it was important not to lose a subject which could provide a route to university for many people.

Religious confrontations

"I think you're getting rid of another potential route. Why not leave things as they are? It's a wonderful subject, it's well taught, let's encourage more people to do it," he said.

Natasha Hausdorff, 17, one of the sixth-form students leading the campaign, said she was fighting to preserve a subject she loved and which could teach youngsters about democracy, religious confrontations and east-west relations.

In March OCR said it planned to scrap ancient history saying revised A-level courses would offer students a better range of qualifications.

Elements of the old ancient history exam would be taken into a new classical civilisation A-level which will be taught from September 2008.

But some critics argued the new course would not examine ancient history properly.
]]> http://westwoodinn.wordpress.com/?p=229 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:34:31 +0000 Westwood http://westwoodinn.wordpress.com/?p=229 ... ein weiteres gutes Tool für den (Online-) Guide

Nachdem ich nun über MyFSTools berichtete, möchte ich euch ein weiteres Tool vorstellen, welches dem virt. Backcountry-Piloten die Orientierung doch sehr erleichtert.
Wir sprechen vom AirMap Global-Xplorer, dem weltweiten MovingMap (mit unübertroffener Genauigkeit).

Global-Xplorer ist ein neues MovingMap Produkt für den Microsoft Flugsimulator von APOLLO Software, welches erstmals die ganze Welt im Garmin GPS des Microsoft Flugsimulators abbildet. Anders als bei externen Browser Lösungen kann jetzt erstmals direkt im GPS Instrument auf Tastendruck zwischen allen Kartenarten, d.h. Satelliten-, Luftbild- und Straßenkarten während des laufenden Fluges weltweit umgeschaltet werden.

Global-Xplorer kann sowohl eigenständig ohne weitere Zusatzkarten als auch in Kombination mit allen anderen APOLLO-AirMap Karten (Topo und ICAO) kombiniert werden, als auch mit dem demnächst erscheinenden TerrainRadar Overlay. Diese Möglichkeiten gibt es bei keinem anderen FS-MovingMap Produkt und ist deshalb eine absolute Neuheit. Einzige Voraussetzung ist lediglich eine Internetverbindung. Ein weiterer Vorteil ist daß keinerlei Platz auf der Festplatte für diese Karten benötigt wird, was bei weltweiter Abdeckung sonst leicht zu riesigem Platzbedarf führen würde.

Die schon vom APOLLO AirMap Grundprodukt bekannten Features lassen sich auch im Global-Xplorer weiternutzen, wie z.B. ein Windvektor mit Speed und Richtungsdarstellung, optionales Einblenden und akustische Warnung vor AI und Multiplayer TCAS Traffic, sowie das Zentrieren auf- und Verfolgen eines anderen Flugzeuges.

Durch die Integration in das bestehende Garmin GPS Instrument wird kein zusätzlicher Platz im Cockpit benötigt. Die speziell für den Flugsimulator optimierte Programmierung sorgt sogar für bessere Frameraten als das Standard GPS (bis zu 145 Frames und mehr haben wir erreicht, je nach Position und sonstigen Einstellungen können diese Werte variieren, siehe screenshots).

Die neue DirTo (DirectTo) Funktion erlaubt das Einblenden eines Zielvectors zu einem beliebigen Punkt auf der Karte der dann analog zu einem Flugplan-Vektor dargestellt wird. Damit können z.B.Helikopterpiloten zielsicher zu beliebigen Punkten navigieren für die anderenfalls mangels NavAid oder Waypoint kein Flugplan erstellt und folglich nicht auf der Karte eingeblendet werden könnte.

Die weltweite Kartenabdeckung erlaubt jetzt erstmals MovingMap Navigation auch in Gebieten für welche keine Flugkarten verfügbar sind, oder auch über den Weltmeeren, zu exotischen Inseln, zu den kleinsten Korallenriffen und Sandbänken, über Wüsten, zu einsamen Airstrips und zu Plätzen die nur Bushpiloten kennen, über Gletscher oder selbst über den Himalaya sind jetzt möglich. Damit ergeben sich für Szenerie-Entwickler als auch für FSX-Adventures ganz neue Möglichkeiten 100% genauer Flugnavigation.

Hinweis: Global-Xplorer erfordert zum Betrieb eine ständige Internet Verbindung. Eine Installation von GoogleEarth bzw. VirtualEarth ist nicht erforderlich. Global-Xplorer ist ein vollständiger Ersatz für das bisherige core-Produkt mit den zusätzlich dargestellten Möglichkeiten. (Text by Apollo Soft)

Hier ein paar Screenshots...

Dieses Tool gibt es bei APOLLOSOFTWARE und kostet 29,95 Euro (Einführungspreis)

Enjoy!

Wer schon Erfahrungen mit diesem Tool hat, der möge diese hier bitte kundtun. ;-)

Here are a couple shots from my short two hour flight on Alaska airlines:

But oh, I am in heaven. No more rain, temperatures in the 70's with a stiff breeze. The freeways aren't crowded - at least not when I was driving in - I had the windows down, the wind blowing through my hair and I remember how much I LOVE California. Thanks to GoogleEarth, I have the exact directions to the hotel, including fractions of miles travelled, and I get here without any mishap. There is ample parking. The reception is cordial and efficient, and . . . there is a big plate of chocolate chip cookies waiting to greet the guests.

My room is a hoot. The only thing missing is . . . AdventureMan. Oh, AdventureMan, you would love this place.

At 5, there is wine in the lobby. This week, ironically, it is wines from Washington State, which are good, but I just came from there! As it turned out, the red wine I had was excellent. The gang gathered, laughing and exchanging family lore, welcoming the bride into our very geeky and kookie family.

Now I have to apologize. We all went out and ate barbeque. I was SO hungry, I forgot to take photos. My bad.

This is the view from my room at sunset:

Today, we are doing a tour of Google! Wooooo HOOOOOOO!

3D immersive environments are being prepared to provide a rich user experience and interactio. Thus allowing application developers of the future to build rich applications. I can think of a few use case scenarios in city planning, crime heat map patterns thru time, pollution heat maps thru time (hmm, sounds like I may have already said this before).

Thats about all I can think of as potential applications at this point in time, but that is no reason to not build a data set that can open up the doors for developers to build applications that we today have not even thought off.

I should also add, like many others I do not completely buy into the 3d vision just yet. But its damn cool to work on and the potential is amazing. Lets see where this road takes us...

Bien pues hace un par de dias Google puso a su disposicion la nueva version de Google Earth 4.3. Algunas mejoras que incluye este navegador es en los controles de navegacion, aunque creo que lo mas resaltante es el efecto de iluminacion/sombra, como lo demuestra esta imagen obtenida del GoogleEarthBlog

Fuente: http://es.gearthblog.com/

Bueno a aprovechar esta nueva version que cuenta con imagenes cada vez mas nitidas, como el caso del Sur y Norte del Peru, o las ciudades principales. Para mas informacion revisa los links al final.

Link: Descarga Google Earth

Link: Mas informacion en GoogleEarthBlog

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Google Earth now displays location specific content culled from the New York Times:

I read a lot of news by surfing the Internet, as do many of my colleagues and friends, and I've always dreamed of a way to browse news based on geography. What's happening in Paris today? What are the top headlines in Japan? [via link]

Now at 20, Rakesh Singh has through Google Earth traced his village near Agra and is fighting to get his property back.

Rakesh, who developed an early fascination for computers, has found his village in Kiraoli, about 22 km from the Taj Mahal city, thanks to his interest in the internet

More @ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Boy_traces_lost_home_on_Google_Earth/articleshow/2928947.cms

Il y a quelques jours déjà, le National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) a présenté un rapport sur l'effondrement d'une portion du Wilkins Ice Shelf en Antarctique.

Stefan de OgleEarth a pris les photos de la NASA du NSIDC et a créé deux ou trois programmes de recouvrement d'image donc vous pouvez voir le démantèlement de la plaque de glace.

The entire premise of learning from history is that we should not repeat the same mistakes.  This is an area in which I’m horribly ill-equipped, and today I repeated a remarkably stupid mistake.

After procrastinating and finding every other possible chore to do beforehand, I delayed my 8am 12-mile run until 1:45pm.  The process generally goes in a cycle of eating something, making sure it’s digested, procrastinating, getting hungry again, then eating again, and then waiting.  It keeps going in this cycle, so after my noontime bagel, I decided that I was going for it, and a mere hour and a half later, I was off on my run. 

First, the good.  As I ran today I felt good.  I quickly fell into a pace and trotted along the lake not breaking any speed records, but enjoying the feeing of being in complete control.  My stride was strong and consistent, and with the exception of a tender hamstring from a few days ago, I was feeling pretty good.  The plan was to run half of the Green Lake inner loop, then veer off into Woodland Park for some trail running, make my way over to the Woodland Park Zoo, do a few loops, and then run back to Green Lake for another outer loop.  There would be a few additional twists and turns, but after mapping it out, I found that I’d be able to get my 12 miles with little difficulty.  Planning difficulty, that is.

As I ran off the trail around Green Lake I was immediately struck by something I had not considered.  Unlike maps, the real world is not flat.  Also, the real world comes in more than 4 colors.  This being the case, I was immediately confused and did my best to reconstruct the map in my head as I unceremoniously tripped over a root and fell on my face.  With that out of the way, I picked myself up and continued in the direction of Woodland Park.  Daunted by the task of running and estimating scale, I decided that the best course of action was to simply run until something looked familiar, a tactic that I’ve used more than once in my life, each time with disastrous results.  Surely this would be different.

Surprisingly things began to materialize that held a degree of familiarity.  After running through a main vein of park trails, I traversed a pedestrian walkway over Aurora Ave.  On the other side was Woodland Park Zoo.  With locked gates.

One of the fun aspects of GoogleEarth is that it doesn’t really distinguish where one legally can and cannot go.  It seems like a lot to expect from a free program, but at the same time, it would lead a runner through a minefield, which seems to be just fine according to the engineers.  I decide that when I get home, I’m going to map a run though the pentagon, Area 51, and any other area that I’ll never be able to go, just for the sake of getting angry at the google engineers. 

Opting to run around the perimeter of the forbidden park, I actually gain far more mileage than I had expected, though I can’t really tell because I’m lost, off course, and getting thirsty.  Anyone who runs will tell you that if you’re thirsty, it’s already too late.  Additionally, they’ll tell you that you have to pay to get into the zoo and that you can’t just waltz in, not matter how good you look in running shorts. 

After running back into the Green Lake Loop, trot back to my starting point, feeling pretty good.  I stop for water again, stretch out, and continue on.  The larger route is nicer because it’s more rugged, and there are fewer people on it.  This is important today, since everyone who can walk (and a few who can’t) is out enjoying the sun.  For me, it’s a battle between just being nice, and holding people accountable for their own stupidity.  I am thrilled that this is such a happy-family place, but am markedly less thrilled when families of 5 decide that it’s a good idea to walk abreast with their leashed dogs sweeping back and forth for runners missed.  More than once I consider education in the form of a swift kick to canine or child, depending on which can more easily be labeled an accident. 

Sometime around the other side of the lake, the gas starts to run out.  I do two large loops around Woodland Park, and by the time I’m running the second half home, I’m not doing so well.  There’s a point in running where you hit a wall, and there’s a point in running where you cease to be a runner, and that’s where I am.  My muscles, while tired, are not inoperable—they are just out of fuel, which is not surprising since I’ve now been running for more than two hours.  My steps become sluggish, and as I close on the main street, I notice that I’m swaying a bit, which is not uncommon for me, but shouldn’t be happening on this short of a run.

Things start to come together at home after I’ve stretched, taken a cool-down walk, and have drunk a nalgene of water.  I feel terrible, but the wrong kind of terrible.  Feeling lousy after running is nothing new—but after I’ve drunk another Nalgene, I realize that I’m in more trouble than I thought.  Sitting on the couch, I start swallowing a lot.  In panic.  And then I realize; I’m going to throw up.  Another realization hits me as I draw on that precious running experience: I’m dangerously dehydrated.

This has happened once before with similarly unenjoyable results.  My body is now dehydrated beyond thirst, and it won’t accept water.  The last time this happened, I was on a 20-mile run in June.  A 12 mile run in March shouldn’t have the same effect, especially since this one was through a drinking fountain populated park.  But here I am.  The prescription is worse than a hangover, and lying on the couch doing my best not to vomit up the water already in me, I set my watch for two minutes, fill the Nalgene, and take a gulp every time the watch goes off.  If you’ve never tried simultaneously taking something in while note letting something else out, I suggest you try it.  It will give a whole new appreciation for how Hendrix died.

Two hours and four Nalgenes later I’m finally able to pee, and standing in the bathroom I feel the raking pain of a migraine that will be with me for the rest of the night.  Another hour later I’m able to eat something, and an hour after that I’ve completed eating every thing that I can get my hands on.  Seven eggs, a bagel, some pasta, three cookies, a bowl of Lucky Charms, and a bratwurst soundly replace the calories I have burned and then some.  Too wired to sleep to in too much pain to go out to the Little Red Hen with everyone, I stay in and watch “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” with no guilt since my brain can be used for little more than a pain reservoir right now.  Periodically limping downstairs to switch out laundry loads, I finish off the evening with the most wonderful thing imaginable: a sleep in a real bed.  After over a month and a half in a sleeping bag, I finally assemble the sheets and sleep like a squatter rather than a homeless person.  It’s a good feeling to move up in the world.

Danke eines (extrenen)Gps-Empfängers fürs Handy und der passenden Software auf PC und Handy,
ist dies mit Einschränkungen möglich.

Ohne GPS ist eine Lokalisierung nur über die Cellinfo möglich.
Dies ist naturgemäß sehr ungenau.
Ein Programm daß mit diesen Daten eine Lakalisierung darstellen kann,
ist CellSpotting.
Jedermann kann über die Website GPSPositionen mit Celldaten verknüpfen,
so daß mittlerweile vor allem in Großstädten eine relativ flächendeckende Positionierung klappt bzw. klappen wird.
Zur straßengenauen Navigation wird das aber auch in Zukunft nicht ausreichen.

Man kommt also um GPS nicht herum.
Da im Nokia E51 kein GPS Empfänger eingebaut ist, braucht es ein Gerät,
das die GPS-Koordinaten per Bloototh übermittelt.
Sehr schön ist das Nokia LD-4W, da es nicht nur klein und leicht ist,
sondern per Handy Ladegerät aufgeladen wird und keine Batterien benutzt.

Der Akku hat bisher schon 7h am Stück gehalten, und war immer noch nicht leer.
Aufladen dauert keine Stunde.
Nach dem einschalten dauert es nur wenige Sekunden,
bis die GPS Koordinaten auf dem Handy verfügbar sind.

Auf dem Handy laufen bei mir bei GPS-Nutzung die folgenden Programme:

-Das Standard GPSData.
Für einfache Emtfernungs, Geschwindigkeits und Positionsdarstellung ausreichend.
Ortsdaten können als Landmark gespeichert werden und in NokiaMaps dargestellt werden.
Für Protokollierung der Daten und spätere Auswertung am PC jedoch nicht genügend.
-Nokia Maps. Hier wird die GPS Position gleich automatisch gezeigt.
-Landmarks ist der Ort, an dem Positionen gespeichert werden,
damit man sie auch später in Maps wiederfindet. Leider kann man nicht alle seine eigenen       Landmarks gleichzeitig anzeigen.
-Location Tagger. Die neueste Version(1.0 Beta2) des Nokiaprogramms nutzt auch extrenes GPS.
Damit werden die aktuellen Positionsdaten in den sog. Eif-header der JPEG-Bilddateien geschrieben,
die man gerade per Kameraauslöser aufgenommen hat.
Leider habe ich noch kein Linuxprogramm für den PC gefunden,
das diese Daten auswerten oder manipulieren kann.
Das wird aber nicht lange dauern, bis hier etwas zur Verfügung steht.
Wer also seine Fotos "zukunftssicher" aufnehmen will,
der kann mit dem Locationtagger die Daten heute schon mitspeichern.

-Sports Tracker. Version 1.70 aus den Nokia Beta Labs ist die Krönung der Nokiaprogramme,
die GPS nutzt!
Eigentlich ist die Software zur Auswertung von Sport Training, z.B. Joggingläufen, gedacht.
Bewegungspausen lassen sich auf Wunsch ausblenden.
Neben vielen eher für Sportler interessanten Funktionen,
nutze ich vor allem die exakte Protokollierung meiner Bewegung.
Unter anderem werden Höhen- und Geschindigkeitsdiagramme automatisch erstellt.
Die Daten einer "Trainingseinheit" lassen sich als XML und vor allem als GoogleEarth-Datei,
auch nachträglich exportiern.

Hier ein Beispiel: Bootsfahrt zur Schildkröteninsel (File for Googleearth)

Ich habe leider keine Erfahrung mit anderen GPS Empfängern, doch erstaunlich ist, daß meiner
auf Meereshöhe immer noch ca. 25m Höhe anzeigt, und die Deckung des gefahrenen Weges mit der Satelitenkarte von Googleearth meist ca. 20m daneben paralell verläuft.
Bin mir nicht sicher, ob dies nur die normale Meßungenauigkeit ist, oder ob das veraltete Kartenmaterial von Bali Schuld trägt. Es ist in unserer Umgebung mindestens 4 Jahre alt!
Inzwischen wurde doch sehr viel gebaut hier...

So kann man abends seine Wanderung oder Autofahrt,
oder auch nur den täglichen Gang ins Büro in Googleearth betrachten.
Natürlich lässt sich damit noch nicht bestimmen, ob man die jeweilige Gehwegplatte schon betreten hat,
aber wenn erst mal Galileo GPS ersetzen wird, schaut das vielleicht ganz anders aus.

Google Banned From Military Bases
Last Updated: Friday, 7 March 2008, 05:45 GMT

He told the BBC News website that detailed study of such sensitive sites was not Google policy.

You can read the rest of the story HERE

The company is to launch a new tool called WorldWide Telescope. This uses computer visualisation techniques to hitch together feeds from a number of different satellites and scientific telescopes to create a navigable image of the universe – stars, solar systems and galaxies. It is described in Microsoft's pre-launch video as providing "a kind of magic carpet that lets you navigate the universe".

It's going to be freely available from Spring 2008. All we need now is a guide with "Don't Panic" written on the front cover.

¿Qué puedes hacer con Google Earth Free una vez instalado en Ubuntu linux?

-Observar la Tierra en tres dimensiones y rotar la vista.

-Explorar las Estrellas, otros Planetas o Constelaciones

-Visualizar ciudades en diferentes países del mundo, cambiar de un país a otro o de un continente a otro, y recorrer desiertos o selvas.

-Bajar a las ciudades y observar calles, edificios, casas, monumentos, ríos, etc.

-Seleccionar un lugar específico, aproximarse a él desde la atmósfera y observarlo desde diferentes alturas. Las de baja altura llegan a un gran nivel de detalle, aunque este varía dependiendo del país y región.

-Medir la distancia entre dos sitios por medio de una línea recta o trazando una trayectoria.

-Observar e identificar tipos o formas de relieve en cualquier lugar del mundo (volcanes, cordilleras, valles, picos, etc.) y conocer la medida exacta de su altura sobre el nivel del mar.

-Escogiendo un país conocer los nombres de sus ciudades principales, poblaciones, mares, lagos, volcanes, accidentes geográficos más importantes, etc.
-Observar fosas oceánicas y otros puntos de interés en los mares.
-Cambiar el ángulo de visualización de un territorio para poder observarlo en perspectiva.

-Conocer las coordenadas de cualquier punto de la Tierra con solo ubicar el ratón sobre el sitio.
-Marcar sitios de interés y compartir información sobre ellos con otros usuarios.
-Guardar imágenes y compartirlas con otros usuarios.
-Planificar viajes (incluidos enlaces a documentos de National Gegraphic)
-Consultar las indicaciones de cómo llegar a tu destino
-Buscar una casa o un apartamento

-Jugar a un simulador de vuelo, teclea Ctrl + Alt + A

-Buscar un hotel
-Ver el mundo a vista de pájaro.

Mínima requerido:

-SO: Ubuntu 5,10, Suse 10,1, Fedora Core 5, Linspire 5,1, Gentoo 2006,0, Debian 3,1, Red Hat 9
-CPU: Pentium 3 a 500 MHz - Memoria del sistema (RAM): 128 MB de RAM
-Disco duro: 400 MB de espacio libre
-Velocidad de red: 128 Kbps
-Tarjeta gráfica: compatible con 3D con 16 MB de RAM de vídeo
-Resolución de pantalla: 1024 x 768 en color de alta resolución de 16 bits

Recomendada:

-SO: Ubuntu 5,10, Suse 10,1, Fedora Core 5, Linspire 5,1, Gentoo 2006,0, Debian 3,1, Red Hat 9
-CPU: Pentium 4 a 2,4 GHz o superior o AMD 2400xp o superior
-Memoria del sistema (RAM): 512 MB de RAM
-Disco duro: 2 GB de espacio libre
-Velocidad de red: 768 Kbps
-Tarjeta gráfica: compatible con 3D con 32 MB de RAM de vídeo
-Resolución de pantalla: 1280 x 1024 en color real de 32 bits

Si quereis probarlo vamos a instalarlo:

Nos dirigimos a la pagina oficial y nos descargamos el programa:

Guardalo en tu escritorio

Luego abrimos una terminal y ponemos

su

ponemos el password de root

luego

cd Desktop

luego

chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin

luego

./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

y nos sale esto:

Ya lo tenemos instalado

Lo podemos encontrar en Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty aqui:

Lo podemos encontrar en Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron aqui:

/home/yo/google-earth/googleearth

Tenemos que crear un Lanzador en la barra de arriba, clic boton derecho raton en la barra de arriba / Añadir al panel / Lanzador de aplicacion personalizado /

Tipo : Aplicacion

Nombre : Google Earth Linux

Comando: /home/yo/google-earth/googleearth

y cerramos.

Y si no os ha quedado claro os pongo un video de como se instala el programa:

Comprobado en Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty y en Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron y funciona.

To view the Google Earth presentation click on View Larger Map and then click on View in Google Earth or it can be viewed from Google Maps as well.

View Larger Map

Oh, what fun.

It doesn't work on all WordPress functions - or maybe it would if I knew how to tell it to, but the things it doesn't do for me - analyze key words, most viewed pages, etc - WordPress does just fine.

UPDATE: THANKS TO YOUSEF at Some Contrast who rescued me with the key key command to take a photo of my visitor map:

What StatCounter does is something else. My very favorite part is looking at where the viewers are coming from, they divide it up, give you percentages. I can see that a lot of schools in the United States follow the blog, but also, people in Australia, China, Iran - oh, it is so much fun to see all the drops show up on the map.

You can get an idea what StatCounter can do for you at their website demo:

StatCounter Demo

And it's free. You can buy upgraded service that gives you more, but for me, and for right now, the free service is just fine, fascinating, really.

Thanks, Mac, for a great recommendation.