I just discovered this service (that probably exist for a long time already): google maps offers direct API so you can insert maps in your home pages. Neat.
And by the way, this is where I live. Note that what's interesting are the controls (upper left).
Interesting challenge today: I had been invited to give a review talk to a colloquium in honor of Pierre Léna (my PhD advisor back in 1989-1992), called "Vision in Infrared Astronomy", and held in Paris (Carré des sciences dans le Vième). I would have loved to go there, to see all those friends and Paris, but I couldn't, realistically. Travel across half the world for a 35mn talk, just after having been there twice in the past 3 months was just too much (and last time I took forever to recover from the trip). I told so to Daniel Rouan, the top organizer. He looked for an alternate but couldn't find any on such short notice (1 month). So I ended up giving my talk remotely! Voice through skype, and Daniel was presenting my keynote presentation from his mac. Keynote 3 makes for such nice presentations. The transitions are gorgeous, as well as the layout. You would lick the slides. Anyway, it went really well, except for the fact that it was at 4:30AM Hawaii time (and that I locked myself out of the Gemini building 1/2 hours before I had to start talking! Panic, thanks Chris). Got a few positive comments from Daniel, Patrice Bouchet and Pierre Léna himself. Way to go.
Camino 1.0 is out. It's been out for a while, but I just downloaded it today. I've been using this browser, a spinoff from Firefox, optimized for the macosx platform, for almost a year now, and I am delighted about it. It really feels like a osx application, unlike Firefox, and is faster and has more features than Safari. It even looks nicer than Safari (although I guess this is a question of personal taste) :
This browser is somewhat overlook by the osx community, so I'm engaging into some evangelism here. It's been growing a lot since the release of Camino 0.7 (that's when Chimera, got renamed in Camino). If you got OsX, try Camino ! It can be found here. And here is an up-to-date review.
On the other hand, I have been known to change browser often. I like change. So since I switched to macs (2001), I have used Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Omniweb, Chimera, Safari, Firefox, and gave a kick look to Netscape and Opera. My late favorites are, in order of preference, Camino, Safari and Omniweb 5.0.
That's it. We've done it. I registered at Netflix a few days ago.
Eighteen bucks a month. Three movies out at any given time.
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