RasterWeb!

In Google Maps I had mentioned that I spent a few minutes hacking on the WordPress Geo Plugin to add support for Google Maps, and, I know, I really should have cleaned up the code and sent it to the author, but he came looking for me, so I ended up sending him my additions for Google Maps which he added in.

I’m so proud.

I mean, I’m not “so proud” of the code, as it was a trivial addition. I’m proud to be contributing to an open-source project that I really like. (WordPress and associated pieces.) I’ve been slacking off on some of the projects I used to contribute quite heavily to, so it’s nice to be able to get something out there people might find useful.

It’s the little things, right? ;)

Dave seems to suggest there were maybe 4 or 5 blogs in 1997. Well then, bow down folks, because that list must then include: Scripting News, CamWorld, and this here RasterWeb!, and one or two others…

You had no idea I was such a pioneer, did you?

And heck, I won’t even mention how early I was in the podcasting game… (But I will say it was early, so early the word “podcasting” hadn’t even been applied to it yet.)

Now excuse me while I discover the Next Big Thing…

Update: Know of any weblogs that existed in 1997? List them here.

I got a new phone on my desk at work. It’s a VoIP phone. It took a number of reboots to get it working. Eventually we figured out that having it plugged into a old 10Base-T hub might be the problem, and plugged it into a 100Base-T port. Bling!

Oh, I did managed to um, “crash” my phone, and it needed a reboot. (My, that sounds so very strange!) I’ve also managed to connect to it with a web browser, and heck, I even made a phone call or two.

How incredibly exiciting! I mean, if you’re a phone geek or something. Which I’m not.

The difference between working at home and working at the office? At the office there aren’t cats watching over me. Right now I’ve got one cat sleeping on a metal cabinet two feet above me, and another one on top of my monitor, which, I’m pretty sure, can’t be good for heat dissipation. It is however, very cute, in that “cat” sort of way.

Update: Temporarily lost our net connection when cat fell of off monitor onto cable modem.

Today we’re sitting in front of a computer with an email client running, and an IM client running (that’s all normal) as well as a landline phone, a cellular phone, and an FRS radio. The email client and IM are for work, and the phone is the “home phone” and the cellular phone is really just an SMS receiving device, and the FRS radio is for the sick child upstairs to request nursing services.

Devices provided by Panasonic, Motorola, and Nokia. Software provided by Mozilla and Fire.