Year: 2006
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Undersea Cable Maps
Twenty-two Undersea cable maps, ranging from 1858-1992. Reminds me of Neal Stephenson’s Wired Magazine article from December 1996 “Mother Earth Mother Board,” about laying the cables. [Via The Map Room] I wonder how redundant all these cables are now, both in terms of multiple cables per route and wireless/satellite alternatives. Seems like an economic monopoly…
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Getting Locomotive chugging
I’d like to learn enough programming to satisfy my inner geek, even though I’m never going to be a coder. I have a project in mind which might be a useful tutorial. Nothing too complicated, but the end result involves HTML, forms, and a database. So I figured my lack of programming knowledge might be…
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2005, Year in Review
Following a meme shared by Neil Turner a year ago, here’s 2005 in review, via the first sentence of each month’s first post. January: I won’t claim I’m back up to speed, but all the home email is read, the aggregator is showing only a day’s worth of new items, and I’ve got fewer than…