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Impressing trailer (another), great cast & directors – I’m dying to see Sin City! Hopefully it’ll start here in EU shortly after the US premiere in april…
Another interesting message about using PostGIS as backend to commercial GIS-clients like ESRIs ArcGIS has been submitted to the PostGIS-mailing list:
“The PostgreSQL OLEDB Provider does not support rowsets, which ArcGIS and other commercial software look for in a data source. That’s why you can establish a connection, but it will always look empty to ArcGIS, regardless of whether you’re trying to load spatial or non-spatial data.
I am just about to finish an extension to ArcMap that loads spatial and non-spatial data from PostGIS and PostgreSQL (as well as other databases) into ArcMap. It does not use a live OLEDB connection, but caches data in local scratch workspaces (personal geodatabase, i.e., Microsoft Jet format).”
Simplicity at its best! Why explaining the functionality of interactive maps in endless how-to’s when we somebody can recognise all the provided possibilities and features at a glance?
But Google, where is the rest of the world…
April 5th, 2005 – update:
Nice to see that a Geodata Portal, respectively a spatial information system, is mentioned at the Fundsachen-Zeit-blog:
“Beeindruckende Abfrage- und Darstellungsmöglichkeiten im UNEP-GEO Data Portal: Its online database holds more than 450 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.”
Actually we are developing various spatial information systems this year. Every single one with another (client/user) approach and different techniques. I’m already pretty curious about how the results will finally be and what’s still more important, if the information systems will be accepted and how intensely they’ll be used…
Just discovered podcasting… Basically it offers you the possibility to compose your individual (on-the-way) radio. But after some time exploring podcasting and playing around with some podcasting-clients I’m still not sure of using it frequently.First, we have a absolutely fabulous radiostation here (-> fm4). Thus I currently have no need to compose an alternative radio.
Secondly, the clients, no offense but imho is the use of most of the clients pretty complicated. If my programming skills were better I would try to integrate podcasting functionality to the Firefox extension Sage, or would hope for integration in one of the already very convenient RSS-clients out there (PulpFiction, Newsfire, etc.).
Nevertheless podcasting is for sure a great new form of radio broadcasting – you choose your shows, completely independent from any schedule – you create and publish your show without the need of a traditional radio station – sounds promising! let’s see how this evolves…
What I really would like to do is to connect to other mp3-players on the street, subway or wherever. Everytime I’m plugged to mine I’m wondering about what music are all the others listening to – just curiosity. I know there are some gadgets around that turn your iPod into a little radio station, but that’s way too complicated. I would like to have a simple function to switch thru all neighbouring mp3-players if they allow it 
(without downloading of course! just listening…)
Consumers tend to be thieves as stated by some persons from major music labels. There is no way to trust them! For this reason major music producers must use the state of the art to protect their (intellectual) property.
Musicians are thieves by nature and at least 16 of them admit it.
Get, sample and share The Wired Creative Commons CD!
Update to add some french thieves: