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Here’s a pretty cool website where you can find the latitude and longitude for a bunch of different places: Latitude and Longitude Search

Oracle has pledged to support the linux environment on the client side by making software to access Oracle databases through Mozilla. This could mean the begining of some pretty cool web applications that run within the Mozilla framework. Right now, I’m learning XUL in preparation to build some rich web applications.

MozTips – A Pathfinder’s Guide to Mozilla and the Open Source Universe

I’m still thinking that the Notification Framework would be a good thing to implement, but I really don’t know how I should go about it. I want it to be able to scale, but I’m afraid that if I don’t plan everything beforehand, it won’t. There may not be enough time. Maybe I’ll do something simpler.

I’ve created a University of Michigan map using gmaptrack. This type of online software is almost exactly what I wanted to create. Looks like someone has already done it. Dang. And you know what, it pretty much rocks already. Anyone suggest any improvements?

I was amazed by this “Zero Install Zero Impact Rich Web Client Application” called M A B, the Mozilla Amazon Browser.

It uses the XML User Interface Language (XUL) to create a web based application that requires almost no start up time and looks like a normal application.

This is the future. Rich web applications that you don’t have to download to use. Hot! Where do I start…?

If you live around here, as in Southeastern Michigan, you should consider taking a day or two to see the Michigan Challenge Balloonfest in Howell. I’d like to go, but right now I don’t have a car :(. But… maybe I’ll get it back this weekend, or someone wil take me. :)

Is it just me, or does this application act a little too much like Google Maps, perhaps to the point of using the same open source software called ka-Map and MapServer?

“Dance Dance Immolation is an adaptation of the popular arcade video game Dance Dance Revolution, but with fire! Basically, you play DDR; when you do well, the computer shoots big propane blasts up into the air. When you do poorly, it shoots you in the face with flamethrowers. Yes, you, as in your actual corporeal body. And yes, flamethrowers, like the kind that are on fire.”

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From The Michigan Daily:

“Search engine giant Google is considering Ann Arbor as a possible place to build a new 200,000 square foot technology center.”

Google may build in A2