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Make a 360 Degree Tour using Google Maps

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 22:11:00 +0000

I love to play with stuff, I’m a kid at heart and the internet is the coolest toy I could’ve asked for.

I was looking for directions to the ReStore here in Nanaimo, so I jumped on Google Maps and zoomed around with street view to locate the entrance. Remembering that all of Nanaimo (or most anyway) is now street view enabled, I checked out my little place on Craig Street.

The resolution is pretty good, I can see my Honda Element and neighbours’ cars. Zooming around, I thought to myself “you could create a cool-ish 360 if you screencapped all the street view angles and loaded them into some sort of 360 degree program”. That’s when I remembered MS Photosynth, a cool program that takes your photos and uses logic to seam them together.

It’s free, so I went to Google Maps and used FireShot to capture images of my complex and the surroundings. I cropped the photos using Irfanview, loaded them into Photosynth and got this as a result.

Pretty cool right? Here’s what you need to pull it off

Rolling with Olympic Momentum

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:02:29 +0000

Watching each day, white knuckled in front of the television I have found myself completely engrossed with the Olympics. I feel as though I’m close enough to Vancouver to feel the buzz, the energy of a collective mass of people united

Now that the ‘lympics are over I’m seeing social updates about “back to normal”, “what now?” and similar sentiments. What I’m feeling is a bit different, instead of “what now?” I’m thinking “what’s next?”

Sounds the same, but has a different impact. I was in sales management for many, many years before my time in SEO. A huge part of successful sales is motivation and energy. Taking positive feelings and pouring them into your job, your life and allowing them to generate their own momentum.

It would be easy to allow the games to become tainted with scandal. To suggest that the negative impact on the community, and the country, wasn’t worth the $4 Billion. I don’t think you can place a price on the good will and pride of a nation. Assuming that you could, I think that those two weeks were some of the best $150 I ever spent.

If we let the games, Canada’s most successful games, fade into nothing but memories then nothing is gained. I want to take something more than memories. I want momentum; action. I am inspired. I am committed to working harder, and reaching higher. Are you?

Applied Theory – a Webcomic

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:26:41 +0000

Applied Theory is a web comic about axioms, models, theories, maxims, principles, laws and postulates. This is the first issue. Click on the comic for a larger version. Also, go ahead and download it, share it, hot link to it, repost it or whatever – just leave the copyright intact.

New Privacy Policy

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:15:11 +0000

All this talk about privacy, I didn’t even have a privacy policy on my site.

It’s a massive oversight on my part, something I should have done as soon as I set up a contact form and launched a newsletter signup form. If you collect information from your visitors, it’s never too late to put a policy on your site. If you don’t know where to start, there are plenty online. You could even link to this one, or copy mine and edit it to suit your needs.

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