Ron Hornbaker

So I got to Washington Dulles airport about 5 hours before my flight back to SFO last week, and the Virgin America rep was kind enough to suggest I pay a visit to the new Smithsonian National Air and Space museum, just a short shuttle ride from the public side of the airport.

As a pilot, I found myself in aviation heaven, and spent about 3 hours wandering around taking snapshots with my new Canon G10. Here’s my favorite shot, of the space shuttle Enterprise… (more…)

Google is returning 404s on basic searches for the last 10 minutes, like the one shown. Friends, the apocalypse is near.

UPDATE: Hmmmm, still broken on Safari and Webkit, but good on Firefox. Something more interesting going on, probably with latest build of Webkit or my iPhone upgrade today. Weird.

From the Poly9 guys in Quebec comes FreeEarth, which is, to my knowledge, the first practical example of running a Google Earth-like app in a web browser. It’s a very early version, and they plan to add more zoom levels and tilts, but wow - very impressive first effort. An added bonus is a simple JavaScript API, so I’m testing an embed here: (more…)