Looks like someone forgot to pay the domain renewal fee at Weather Underground: update The Weather Underground issued the following statement: Hello Wunderground users. We first want to apologize for the connectivity issues that many of you are or have been experiencing. The problems were caused when someone at our domain name registrar inadvertently made […]
Month: July 2008
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Zooming with SVG
I wanted to highlight a comment Bruce Rindahl made to an earlier post (with his permission): http://www.lrcwe-data.com/DeepZoom.svg is a modification of a project I have been working on. I hacked together some code to mimic the animation effect of the Hard Rock site. First some credits. The original work was funded by the State of Colorado and Division of […]
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SVG doesn’t need to compete and neither do I
The worst mistake I made in the recent discussions about open compared to proprietary technologies was to allow myself to be pulled in by sweeping statements such as, “the W3C has failed”. Not only be pulled in, but to get into some form of competition over which is the best: SVG/Ajax, Silverlight, or Flash. The […]
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Productive Writing
As fun as I find writing lengthy posts here, all of which have little impact on whatever I am writing about, I must turn my attention back to finishing the draft of my new book. First, though, I have a question about computers, but this time addressed to the Windows side of the house. Both […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Update I am aware that Hard Rock is using Deep Zoom, based on Microsoft’s HD Photo technology. The equivalent open source version of the same functionality is JPEG 2000, which, hopefully, someday will have a wider implementation. My tiny test was not a challenge to Hard Rock, but to the statements […]