William M. Hartnett

Hurricane-tracking site Stormpulse just added user profiles and human-consensus forecasting, a potentially cool feature that I could try to explain, but which you would be far better off just reading about over this way. Needless to say, the wisdom of crowds relies on attracting a crowd, so check out Stormpulse now and try your hand [...]

I’ve looked at the ArcGIS print window a thousands times and never gave it a second thought until now. Maybe I’m crazy, but here’s my question: Of all the places in the world ESRI designers could have chosen for the thumbnail map that illustrates output image quality, is it even remotely possibly that they would [...]

How would someone sitting behind a desk in South Florida find an oblique aerial image of the local newspaper office in the fifth most populous town in Kansas without the Internets and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth/Live Maps? They wouldn’t. A toast, then, to the Internets and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth/Live Maps! You have allowed me to see [...]

I have very special feelings about this vacuum. It’s awesome, simply awesome.

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Feature story on Indian River Drive in St. Lucie County. Neighborhood of the week is Bellaggio west of Lake Worth.
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Nope, it’s just The St. Petersburg Times of St. Petersburg, Russia. Not to be confused with the St. Petersburg Times of St. Petersburg, Florida, a city with very nearly as much history, and only one fewer UNESCO World Heritage Site than its European namesake. Thanks to friend and coworker Meghan Meyer for bringing the paper [...]

Just sort of amazed by this.

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Not that Michael Skube’s silly Los Angeles Times column needs any further blog-flogging (go nuts if you’re interested), but here’s an interesting story on Boeing’s 787 from The Seattle Times that provides a bit more evidence of just how dumb it was.
Regular readers will know that I’m a bit of an aviation junkie, which means [...]

I did my first internship at The Ledger in lovely Lakeland, Florida back in the summer of 1998, not long after this building opened. Here’s a fact about that summer that blows my mind: Reporters didn’t have Internet access on their individual computers at the time. Also, as the building was still quite new, there [...]