Author: Steve Novoselac

Director of Digital Technology @TrekBikes, Father, Musician, Cyclist

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Google Earth, Track My Flight!

ok, for the seriously hardcore geeks out there. Track my flight in Google Earth!

First, if you don’t have it installed, go to http://earth.google.com and install Google Earth.

Then, hit this link

http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/geOFNF.aspx?pp=51902740

you will see an live tracking of my flight when it takes off (around 4:10 PM CST)

It will update once a minute. Pretty dang cool if you ask me.

I love it on the site, it says “FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NOT TO BE USED FOR IN-FLIGHT NAVIGATION.”

Yeah, I’m flying my plane, with a satellite Internet connection, with Google Earth, and using it to track where I am, man, I don’t need the gauges and what not, I have Google to tell me where to go!!……..crash 🙂

Pretty sweet thing, its crazy what you can do these days.

 

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No, I did not sign the VB6 petition

VB6, ahh how we love it. Wait, no we don’t. No, no, no. Hate VB6. VB.net – sorry you got a bad rap because you were named after your great grandpa VB6.

VB6 sucks!

I had to code for a while in VB6, and yeah you can get things done, but it just seems archaic, with no OOP, etc. VB.NET doesn’t really do the name justice, It is sad that people still debate that VB.NET isn’t a full fledged language for developing applications. To me, C# and VB.NET are like, US English and Great Britain English, not very different.

But yeah, I don’t want VB (or VBA for that matter) sticking around any longer than it needs to. I wish we could live in a fully managed world 🙂

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Airport Departure

Easy as 1,2,3. Well, almost. The hardest part was parking. I’ve never been to the airport alone, to travel, so that was a new experience. I got here way early, just to be sure, but parked, walked to ticketing, no one in line, so that was good. No on in line to check bags, that was good, No one in line at security, that was good. There were a few people there in security line, but yeah, easy.

One thing I would have to say is, the 3-1-1 rule, about liquids, is just stupid. One lady had her stuff in a bag, but one thing was like 3.6 ounces and they denied. Some guy had contact solution in his bag, they jacked it.

I had my shoes, laptop, and gum – no problems 🙂

One thing that sucks on the concourse, is the wi-fi isn’t free. They are running Boingo paid Internet, just a scam. Seems my phone won’t dial out or get on data either, not sure why, text messaging still works.

Just rebooted my phone, and now data works – sweet!

It is nice to be having a beer at 12:45 PM on a Wednesday with no worries in the world 🙂

 

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Can you be too Web 2.0?

Can a site be “too much” Web 2.0? I think so, yes.

I am heading out for the airport here shortly, Seattle, WA, then Portland, OR. I want to create an online trip to upload photos, track things, and there are a few Web 2.0 sites out there, TripWiser, TripTie, TripHub, TripMates, Matador. Of all these sites, I didn’t find one that I particularly liked, so I don?t know what I will do yet, but anyways..

TripWiser – Nice look, seems snazzy. Web 2.0’ish, Ajaxy, the whole nine yards. Thing is, I think they are going overboard on the 2.0 stuff. One thing that struck out with me is, their Ajax is slow. Also, on search results, I could never get past the 1st page!! Something with JavaScript/Ajax I assume.

Should sites give you an option for a “Web 1.0” look, that they can promise will work? One other thing I have noticed on sites is, some stuff works in IE, some in FF, and vice versa. If you want to deliver the best solution to the most people, you better make sure it works in both!

Cut back on the Ajax, get it working first, then tweak it, or make an option to turn on the Ajaxiness. Windows Live Hotmail is kind of doing this. Classic View, and New View. Good idea.

Well, I can always track my trip in notepad, and My Pictures folder 🙂

 

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New ICQ Version Release – ICQ6

I have been using ICQ for a loooooong time (my original number is in the first 500,000). ICQ as an app though has become bloatware, too many options, features. I have been using Trillian for a while now, except it seems to like to crash. I don’t like GAIM Pidgen, or Miranda, and others just don’t cut it.

Just so happens I looked up ICQ again yesterday, and it was on their site for an ICQ6 beta, well I really wanted to try but it was a limited beta. I went back today by happenstance and I can download ICQ6, so I am going to try it out, see how they have changed it, or lived up to the hype.

 

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Free Non-DRM Mp3!

Stumbled across this site this afternoon, http://www.muzic.com

There are tons of free Mp3 for the downloading, indie artists, etc. If you want to grow your music collection or if you are sick of listening to the same old junk, check it out.

 

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Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Link to Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Testing out the “Blog This” feature in Windows Live Toolbar. The 25th Amendment. Crazy Stuff. Replace the President because he can’t do his duties.

If you really dig into it, it is pretty interesting. The pro tempore of the Senate and all that. Anyways, the cool/funny thing is, my favorite TV show, 24, has pulled out the 25th Amendment twice in six years. The writers must really like digging into the Constitution 🙂

 

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G-Allens, 2 for 1's

Mike and Joel at Club G’s, just showing that I can take a pic and blog it 🙂

 

 

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GPS Update

Well, If you look at the right side of my blog, I have an update. I have been working all day on getting the GPS stuff to work. I made an app to sync with my Bluetooth GPS, and upload the coordinates in decimal to my website. Then I read it and create a Google Map. There is a lot more to come, but it is pretty good for  2 for 1’s at G Allen’s outside (of course, the GPS works). Check it out!

 

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T-Mobile Dash + GPS + Mologogo = Debacle

I have my cool new T-Mobile dash, and my Pharos Bluetooth GPS, but I just want more.

Currently I can see where I am on the phone using Windows Live Search Maps,  but I just want more.

I want to be able to post up my coordinates every minute or so, save them or map them or what have you.

Mologogo seems to be the answer to that, but there are always issues. First off, the site can’t seem to stay up for more than 10 minutes at a time. I did some digging and found the IP address, so I added that to my host file

216.127.82.54 www.mologogo.com

Second, the SmartPhone version seems buggy, not feature complete like the other versions, etc. There doesn’t seem to be a place to set up a remote URL feature so I can post up the coordinates to my own server, which is really what I want to do.

Also, I am looking into GPS.Net again. I will play with the trial, #1 because the final version is 250 bucks, and previously I could never get it to work right. Maybe if I get something going I will just use that and forget mologogo.

Hopefully I can get something going here this weekend, I want to be able to track my coordinates as well as take a picture, upload to flickr or some URL and save it with the waypoint. Then I want to create .kml files for Google Earth so I can track where I have been, and photo tag them. Tall order for this weekend , but we will see. I will be on vacation in Seattle/Portland starting middle of next week and I want to track my vacation, like where I go, etc. We will see 🙂

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