I’ve always been hesitant to host my own blog because I imagined that it would be a truly painful process. I finally took the plunge last week and decided to set up a blog on my existing GoDaddy account. I followed Mels tutorial on “How to install WordPress on a GoDaddy account” and was quite literally done in 5 minutes. The only thing I had issues with was getting the Date & Name permalinks to work because the install did not create a htacess file. The workaround was to upload a 1 byte htaccess file to the WordPress root directory and CHMOD it to 666 – once that was done my blog was ready to go.… Read the rest
TagMaps is the latest research project to come out of my group at YRB. It is a visualization technique that displays text on geographic maps. TagMaps can be used to communicate characteristics of location-based data in an easy-to-understand way. The World Explorer in particular uses TagMaps to display Flickr tags that denote the ‘important’ tags in any given geographical area. You can play with it at http://tagmaps.research.yahoo.com/worldexplorer.php
I built much of the back end for the system and am in charge of the data apis that we uses. If you want to play with this API for yourself I suggest you head over to either the Yahoo Developer Network or to the TagMaps Yahoo group.… Read the rest
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Why Geotag? [Orig posted: 18/12/2006]
I’ve just posted a blog entry about geotagging over at the YRB Blog
I have got the perfect gift for my Jewish friends.
The Jew in the Lotus @ Amazon
Not as good as the other Jew in the Lotus but pretty good nonetheless 
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My Elise just turned 1 – I have a had a great time and have met some really cool people. Here is to another fun year.
6-Dec-2005: Take Delivery at SVAG
10-Dec-2005: Break-in: drove from SF to LA down Highway 1 😀
11-Dec-2005: LA Sunday Drive
24-Dec-2005: Lotus Section of Crystal Cove
31-Dec-2005: Spend New Years Eve watching the sunset at the 17 mile drive
1-Jan-06: Celebrate the new year with my very first track day at Laguna Seca(see how far I am from the apex 🙂
9-Jan-06: A long line of Elises at the GGLC/Club111 drive
14-Jan-06: Standoff
5-Feb-06: 6000 miles in 60 days
20-Feb-06: Tackling the Corkscrew at the GGLC track day (actually hitting the apex this time).… Read the rest