DASNET

I've been experimenting with an online photo gallery, and have been adding pictures beyond what we've posted in our blog entries. It's not really working right yet (some features, like "Add to Cart," just don't work), but it does give you the ability to easily get the original full-sized photos, and it even has links to Shutterfly, so you can print photos directly from our webpage. We've got some England photos up (just the ones in our England travelogue, though), and a bunch of additional pictures of Dominic. Just go to the "Photos" link in the menu at the top of the page...

There's no doubt about it -- Google Maps is cool. It's not providing much more in terms of information than other, competing map services, but it more than makes up for that in terms of user interface. It's the easiest, most intuitive way to look at maps.

Of course, it's limited to whatever maps Google wants to provide. Some very good maps, certainly, but not always everything people might want. Almost from the start, I'd wanted to see additional map types added to Google, and in recent weeks they've added some of their Keyhole images (down to about 1 meter resolution or so). But I'd wanted to see better resolution (we have USGS Urban area photography available to almost 1/4 meter), and also topographic maps.

The Rio Receiver is a consumer-electronics device that sort of bridges the gap between computer-geeks and "normal" music lovers. It connects to an in-house computer network, either over ethernet or phoneline network, and provides music delivered from a central server via MP3 files. It's way cool. It was created by the great geeks at Empeg, who eventually got bought by SonicBlue, who then started marketing it under ther Rio name. It's all very confusing.