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Watcher in the Sky
Aug. 24th, 2005 12:37 pmUpdate more often, you lot! Here I am doing so much typing that my fingers are becoming significantly shorter by the day, and I've got hardly anything on LJ to read at work. Not even a comment! What else am I supposed to do to pass the time? Well, there's always actually doing work, I suppose.
Actually, the main reason that I've been updating so often recently is that it was pointed out to me a while ago that I wasn't updating nearly as often as I did when I first started the journal. To go against this, I've now completed my target of having at least one entry every day for a month. It's a lot easier to do this when I have access to the Internet all day, and not having to go to the lab and work on whatever unlikely task I've been set for the week. I think I'll continue until the end of August because it'll make my calendar look a bit neater that way.
Google Earth was mentioned on the radio last night, and it made me think about how the Internet has evolved since it was first made widely available. It makes me very happy to see that even though the Internet provides the means for so many idiots to connect to each other and others, reducing the IQ of all concerned along the way, there are the odd sites like this and Wikipedia that assist it in achieving its purpose in becoming a huge knowledge base. You can start with a view of the world, and just click inwards on to your country, your region, town, street and so on, carrying on zooming in until you're clicking on the bit of bacon between the oven and the boiler. This is what the advent of CD-ROMs was supposed to be able to provide, but at that stage people had rather exaggerated expectations of the format. Showing off by Google it may be, but I find the way that this is even possible amazing.
It would be great if you really could Google Earth, though. Searches like "Where did I put my house keys?" would save a lot of time.
Actually, the main reason that I've been updating so often recently is that it was pointed out to me a while ago that I wasn't updating nearly as often as I did when I first started the journal. To go against this, I've now completed my target of having at least one entry every day for a month. It's a lot easier to do this when I have access to the Internet all day, and not having to go to the lab and work on whatever unlikely task I've been set for the week. I think I'll continue until the end of August because it'll make my calendar look a bit neater that way.
Google Earth was mentioned on the radio last night, and it made me think about how the Internet has evolved since it was first made widely available. It makes me very happy to see that even though the Internet provides the means for so many idiots to connect to each other and others, reducing the IQ of all concerned along the way, there are the odd sites like this and Wikipedia that assist it in achieving its purpose in becoming a huge knowledge base. You can start with a view of the world, and just click inwards on to your country, your region, town, street and so on, carrying on zooming in until you're clicking on the bit of bacon between the oven and the boiler. This is what the advent of CD-ROMs was supposed to be able to provide, but at that stage people had rather exaggerated expectations of the format. Showing off by Google it may be, but I find the way that this is even possible amazing.
It would be great if you really could Google Earth, though. Searches like "Where did I put my house keys?" would save a lot of time.
