I redid the surebert site a while back and today I was looking at the stats. Surebert is a very simple to use AJAX API I wrote last year. It looks like it has been downloaded almost 500 times yet I the only place that linked back to the surebert site, like I requested, is my boss's church's web site. In combination with Poser (downloaded 150 times and avaiable in both ASP and PHP format), also on tthe surebert site it can grab data from anywhere on the net and include it live on your site using only javascript. in fact it is what runs the chat, the peep count, the old radio, the many other features on this site.



Today I found alexswebcamworld ] on google by searching for surbert.js.



The site seems to be a guy who keep most of his life on web cam. I frequently thought about this a couple years ago but honestly, having a mobile blog was more appealing at the timeand I went with that route. Maybe when I can have a live mobile webcam blog I will change my mind. I think actually, I can have that right now if I would just program it for my phone. I am so overly intimidated by Microsoft Visual Studio. It is so foreign to me, the way it works. Don't get me wrong, i love IDEs but the visual part is insane. I just am not comfortable giving up that much control to the system. It is probably because I don't fully understand how it works, but it seem slike whenever I start a project there a already a million files and lots of code.

I totally get absorbed in the form maker API I was making at work and forgot to take a break. I am so angry with myself because I promised I wouldn't do that anymore after 5 years of virtually no breaks at Canisius.

This was all my fault I just forgot to go until 6:59. I get out at 7PM. The thing is I always wait for terry till 8. I f his stupid phone wasn't broken I could have just called to say I am walking home, but as I have to wait anyways - I decided I would spend $11 on a fancy dinner at the hotel next door to roswell. Their food is amazing.

The guy next to me if freaking about about how he has some paycut and won't be able to afford the $500 trips to toronto on the weekends. His attorney says this and that. Blah, blah,blah Ans his property value need to be re-evaluated Thank god he has no debt, he says to some woman he is with.

In the end he decided it wuld be okay because his lower salary is still higher than most people in Buffalo.

This is a chicken focaccia sandwich. Nothing about this type of bread says focaccia to me. At least it tastes really, really good.

Has anyone else seen google mars ? It is a new mars mapping interface based on the googlemaps interface. I cannot wait till they have the 3d version. You can see the data in elevation, visible image, and infrared image maps.

The sugar glider found an organic crunchy cheese stick.



And then spent the next half hour nibbling it.










Eventually, the other sugar glider came to investigate and snuggle

I remember when (e:jacob) stole my first Delorme Earthmate GPS for my iBook. I loved it. The maps it used were so innaccurate and Arizona was developing so fast . that it often showed us simply driving through the desert. Using it was the utmost complicated endeavor as it required a serial to USB converter, batteries, plenty of sky view and like ten minutes of setup before it was ready. No tto mention the software and iBook itself were flaky.

Then when I worked on Public Transphere we had some 2000 serial GPS unit that was a little more sophisticated but the interface was just as bad.

Recently I ordered a bluetooth gps for my phone and today I started actually playing wiht it. It is so incredible. It is tiny, like the size of a pack of gum, fully rechargable via usb and even works in the house. Furthmore, it is so accurate that it can detect me lifting up and putting down the phone or the speed at which I walk down the driveway. The potential is incredible and it output fully standard compliant NMEA sentences.

Look at the data mapped to google earth as I drive down elmwood. It's really great because my phone is also a 700k-1MB/s modem for my laptop.



Before I even used it I ordered another GPS but this time just the little chip which can record to a SD card. The advantage of this setup is that it can be standalone and tiny, not much bigger than a quarter. I can attach it to anywhing and it will reocrd its position for up to two weeks.

Soon enough, I want to make my journal track me as I move around the city. To bad I sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. It might be kind of boring.