A Golf Blog

1,000,000 MPH

If you were able to download Google Earth, take a stab at seeing what it’s like to travel at 1,000,000 MPH. In the search box, first select Paris, France. When the load completes, go back to the search bar and enter Honolulu.

It takes about 25 seconds to transit the Atlantic, North America, and part of the Pacific and fully load up the destination of Honolulu. It covers a distance of 7638 miles – or about 1 million MPH.

Top Five Fireworks Cities

Darn, Denton didn't make the list but New York, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia did.

ABC Goes Over the Top w/ Reality Show

Buckling under pressure (go figure) ABC Television cancelled plans for a show called Welcome to the Neighborhood. The show was about 3 white, Christian, Republican families getting to award a 3,300 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ bath home to the winner – one of seven contestant families that included one black, one Asian, one Hispanic, and one gay couple.

I guess ABC was in something of a panic for a Desperate Housewives summer replacement or maybe it was just the heat.

Link to NYT article.

Yahoo Trumps Google

With Social Search - a way to share links that can be tagged and searched. I see it as a method that promotes relevancy in search results.

Gizmos That Can Help Make Your Next Airline Trip More Comfortable

AirRight has developed an FAA approved plug-in (actually, it’s a snap-on) that connects with the air nozzle above your seat and filters the air being blown from the nozzle. It’s supposed to filter more than 99% of “unwanted viruses and allergens.

Then there is the Knee Defender – two plastic wedges that attach to the seat frame in front of you. When applied, they prohibit the seat from reclining.

AJAX at Sabre

More on Sabre's foray into AJAX from Bill Scott of Sabre Airline Solutions. The problem, the solution, and the future - For the corporate world, you can do it on the web. For the web world, show results in a scrolling grid.

The Other Side and Open Source

Now might be a great time to dip the big toe into the other side of computing.

Sun’s announced at Java One subscription and traditional pricing for the 64-bit Sun Ultra 20 Workstation. Hey, they even have what they’re calling the ‘Try and Buy’ program – that’s 90 days at no charge with an option to purchase after the trial.

More info at Ongoing and on the Sun website.

Latitude and Longitude Confluence

Breakout the digital camera, compass, and GPS device and you can participate in GeoProjectUSA. It’s an undertaking to document by photos all whole-minute points of latitude that intersect with whole-minute points of longitude. There are about 4.5M points of confluence in the United States.

The project is being sponsored by the new photo sharing service Zoto.

Link courtesy of Tom Foremski at the Silicon Valley Watcher.

DFW Airport Terminal D Open House

We spent a couple of hours on Saturday at the DFW Airport for the open house at Terminal D. It’s huge – massive mosaics in the terrazzo floors, sculptures on the floor and hanging from the ceilings.

The ticketing counter's lack of signage leads me to believe that it’s going to be a common use area – one that’s shared. The gate areas are adorned with logos so I suspect those will be dedicated.

It’s also Wifi enabled but Stephen O’Grady will be disappointed that the gate area seating does not include AC Outlets. There are a few on the walls but they are away from the seating.

The multi-level parking garage signage actually tells you how many spaces are left on each level.

Here’s a few photos on Flickr.

IE7 RSS and Longhorn

I suspect that the Gnomedex 2005 attendees are all abuzz over the latest from Microsoft. IE7 imbedded with RSS, enclosures, and lists as RSS that can be sorted and filtered.

Robert Scoble has a video of an hour long interview up on Channel 9.

Very cool.