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I just downloaded Google Plus Earth and wow! I LOVE IT! It’s so feature-rich that I don’t even know where to begin. Imagine Keyhole + prettiness + driving directions + play back of your driving path = Google Plus Earth

It allows you also to hook up your GPS (which I haven’t yet) and show exactly where you are in Satellite view. They seem to have really improved the rendering image as it doesn’t have the same blocky-downloading effect that Keyhole LT has.

You can also overlay your own images over the map, which is neat, I guess. I don’t know.. it’s going to take me a while to discover all the new additions.

I think the neatest thing is instead of only flying between places like a big hop, it now lets you fly like you’re a helicopter following the road, a much better representation of how we normally travel.

I started reading this and thought I’d share it with my INFO friends http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/Introduction seems to be a really nice reference for different design elements, when/why you’d want to use them and when/why not to.

MPAA Targets P2P Sites Sharing TV Shows
I’m so sick of the RIAA and the MPAA!

The MPAA is attacking sites that now list torrents of TV programs. Come on! I love being able to watch a TV show on TV live, however, many times I’m away from home and can’t get to see my favorite shows (like 24). I could program my DVR on my computer to record the show or even my VCR, but sometimes I don’t know I won’t be there. We’re just turning into a world where we can’t share any content with anyone else without being sued. It’s just hard to support an industry when they’re out to suck as much money from their customers as they can get. It’s interesting, because they’re numbers for sales of DVDs of TV programs has been almost doubling the last couple years (in the multi-billions now of TV program sales)… they can’t use the argument that trading is losing them money for this one!

I love being able to open up a torrent and download it all compressed and ready for me to watch.

It just sucks that now we can’t even legally share TV broadcasts with each other! I’m just getting sick of big business suing small people.

T - 00:00:00 = whew hoo. Outta there

Today I found out I don’t have to give up my need to surround myself with Ryan and David. Avanade called me today to extend me an offer and I accepted. Weird, I’m going to be a solution developer (Programmer II)!

This is crazy to think about, as I remember my first quarter freshman year struggling in my 142 and thinking “Well, I guess I can never be a programmer.” Now five years later, I guess it all clicks into play and now I realize it’s not me, C just sucks. I think they’re going to be utilizing my database background on projects, which is cool because I love data modeling. I’m just so happy now I don’t have to worry about August 31st and the end of my employment with the GEAR UP grant. Anyways, like Ryan I’m gonna say.. “Here I come Avanade“