We’ve added a new feature to MapSkip: Sounds of the World. This has been something I’ve been playing with on MapSkip since the beginning – geolocating sound recordings. We still only have a few recordings on the site, but I hope that by adding a special feature page, we can attract more people to add [...]
A recent post over at the excellent DadHacker blog as well as my post from yesterday reminded me of my early programming days. The Sinclair ZX81 came with an exemplary programming manual that made it very easy to start programming immediately in Basic. Those first small programs – in 1K of RAM, no less – [...]
I’ve decided to resurrect a feature of this blog, but with a twist. A few years ago I wrote quite a number of “Street Copy” posts, where all of the photos were taken with my trusty old Palm Zire 71. The Zire fell in disuse over the last year or so, and Street Copy posts [...]
This is my 400th post on Pacific Tides! It’s quite amazing – I would have not expected to be able to keep this blog going for so long (the blog is now just a month shy of 5 years old) at a pretty steady rate of at least one blog post every week, and often [...]
I’ve started posting photos from this blog on Flickr. Not sure yet how to handle this, since I will definitely always post my best shots here first, but I guess I will every now and then upload a batch of photos on Flickr, since after all it is a huge community and I want to [...]
Well, the silence on this site can only be explained with me working on MapSkip when I’ve got any free time… But it’s been worth it, with the site really doing well now. We have a couple hundred users and about 150 stories right now, and there are new ones coming in every day. Today [...]
After about four months of work – usually late at night or on weekends – both me and Kazumi are proud to present MapSkip to the world. We came up with the idea for this site when we were looking at other Google Maps mashups and one thing we noticed was how much the users [...]
It seems that I’ve finally found a way to block comment spam on the site that actually works. As it turns out, spammers use automated systems to stuff the comments box with their nasty spam messages and these automated messages need no time to write – they are instantaneous. So now if a user submits [...]
Kazumi Atsuta, an aspiring and talented photographer – who also happens to be my lovely wife – just re-launched her website at imkazumi.com. And while I’m clearly not objective about this site, check out her gallery of black and white pictures. There’s some gorgeous photos in there.
Over the last two years I’ve been fighting a long, sad struggle against comment spammers on this site. I’ve tried filters, which worked for a while, but filters have to be updated all the time to keep them effective. And thanks to a never fully understood misconfiguration I actually managed to delete all old comments [...]