The best technology isn’t cloud-native. The best technology doesn’t auto-scale. The best technology isn’t proprietary. The best technology isn’t open-source. The best technology isn’t low-code. The best technology doesn’t mine coins. The best technology doesn’t generate 10x revenue. The best technology doesn’t need another round. The best technology isn’t document-based. The best technology isn’t distributed….
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Tips For Your Best Zoom Experience
Or Skype, or Google Meet, or GoToMeeting, or whatever. As I bounce around social media, I keep running across a lot of spurious advice on how to project a “professional” impression as you, like everyone else, participates in video calls from home. This seems to be particularly true on LinkedIn. Most of that advice is…
Nonessential
The cursor flashes, waiting for a command.Any command.An editor window is open,Empty.The fan does not hum, with nothing to cool.The keyboard simply restsAs dust,Illuminated by the stripes of sunlightmoving across the desk,Settles between its idle keys. It all taunts meWith the truth: There is no map I can make,No chart,No graph,No query,No post nor comment;…
Moved to Octopress
If you’re seeing this page, chances are you have followed a link to http://geobabble.wordpress.com. If so, you should update your bookmarks to https://blog.geomusings.com. I have recently moved my blog over to Octopress and no longer be actively maintaining this blog at wordpress.com. This site will remain online as there are many older links that point…
Mowers and Maps
I was mowing the lawn today and trimming with the push mower pictured below. If it looks old, that’s because it is. I first acquired it in 1978 when it was given to me by neighbors that were moving to an apartment near the city, meaning they no longer needed it. It still starts on…
Ten-Second Tidy
Things have been a bit hectic the last few weeks and that’s left little time for blogging. Quite a bit has happened so I thought I’d do a little round-up (if for no other reason than to clear my own head). [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJa7P6dfmco] In no particular order: Steve Coast to Microsoft (I told you it had…
Quilted Map of Monongahela National Forest
I found this map on display at the Cranberry Glades visitor center in West Virginia (click any of the pictures to enlarge them): One of the rangers working there told me it is to scale (although the quilt itself lacks any indication of scale). The next two pictures are close-ups showing the north arrow and…
Happy GIS Day 2009
GIS Day is when the Great Map renders from its cache and slips around the world giving GPS units to all the good geographers.
Does Vendor Lock-In Increase Health-Care Costs?
Today is World Diabetes Day. I am a parent of a child with Type 1 diabetes (also known as juvenile diabetes). As such, my child is dependent upon insulin and will be until a cure is found. I am using my blog today to discuss the issue of interoperability (or lack thereof) of medical devices.
Twitter Shows Blitz
This past weekend, NFL Sunday to be specific, I was the victim of a TV/internet outage due to a mistake made by a technician while they did some work at the junction box shared by my next-door neighbor and I. As a result, I was unable to watch my beloved Washington NFL franchise hobble to…