William M. Hartnett

Anyone using WordPress and the daily blog posting feature of del.icio.us notice that the thingy appears to have stopped working in the past week or so? Or is it just me who broked the Internet? Speaking of which, a link courtesy of Matt Wensing: Down for everyone or just me?

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Last week’s imagery update in Google Earth was just rolled out in Google Maps, reports Google Maps Mania. The update includes Martin County, which is the first time in, without exaggeration, 83 years that Google has brought new aerial imagery to my area down in southeast Florida. See the full list of updates at the [...]

That’s the new fella on top of my pile o’ notebooks, making the PCs (one defunct, one semi-defunct, one fully, uh, funct) look bad. Missing from the family portrait is a PowerBook G4, also funct.

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Careful readers will have noticed I have a certain admiration for Microsoft’s Live Search Maps and the broader Virtual Earth platform. Not only is it a worthy competitor to Google Maps, but in some respects it’s a superior product. Mileage may vary depending on your location and needs, but I have crazy love for Virtual [...]

Noted in Will’s jambalaya links: This Jeff Croft link to the new Ellington-based Las Vegas Sun site. Noted in the page source of the new Las Vegas Sun site: A bit of humor. Go to the site and view the source for yourself to share in my amusement, or just mash your mouse here if [...]

Here’s a new year’s treat for the South Florida map geeks: Microsoft has added oblique aerial imagery for all of Palm Beach County to Virtual Earth/Live Maps. That’s over 2,000 square miles, people; Bigger than Rhode Island, and almost as large as Delaware. I’ve been waiting for this since I heard earlier this year that [...]

Here’s a Friday evening treat: 176 MB of “critical fixes and new functionality.” Meh, I’ll get to it next week. Get the update right over here. If you’re into the freaky stuff, here’s the full list of issues fixed, and the list of what was added in each service pack is available in this 18-page [...]

Brian Gardner has an attractive new WordPress theme designed with online news sites in mind: Revolution News Theme. Read the introductory post here, and check out the demo page over here. Very interesting possibilities for this if you’re running a small news site, like a high school or small college paper. Not sure how it [...]

I just noticed that the 30-day Trends section of Google Reader now includes “read on mobile” stats. Must have been added during last week’s big search box update. Nothing else to say about this, I’m afraid. Just thought it was kind of cool.

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Do you go for the iPod touch (another plug for The New York Times in the browser demo pic) at a somewhat disappointing 16 GB? Or the 8 GB reduced-price iPhone? Or neither, because, like me, you don’t have $399 for a third iPod in four years? Seriously, I’m all tapped out when it comes [...]