This is a single Python Script that does the work for you: collecting the appropriate METAR file(s), comparing it to the latest report posted on Twitter, and if it changed, update the Twitter account status (and saving this latest on disk for later comparison).
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Elevation is a free, open source route visualizer that renders personal GPS data in 3D space, built in Processing by Dave Shea.
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NOAA today released the World Ocean Database 2009, the largest, most comprehensive collection of scientific information about the oceans with records dating as far back as 1800. This product is part of the climate services provided by NOAA.
This imaginative and insightful approach got me thinking about a related problem I’ve been keen to address for some time: data entry. How can we use paper as a more effective channel for information flow during and after humanitarian emergencies?
"I recently went to an event with a coworker who took pictures with an SLR Canon Camera that took cr2 raw pictures. My goal was to convert them to jpeg, and integrate them with my own pictures (merging/interleaving them by date using the picture data inside cr2 and Exif for my jpegs)"
Dual booting Windows and Linux doesn't mean you have to maintain two separate sets of applications, preferences, and documents. With cross-platform, open-source applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and Pidgin, you can use the same apps with the same configuration automatically no matter what OS you've booted.
]]>Neat idea - Grafitter is a way collecting information about your self over time while sending updates with Twitter, using IM, saving bookmarks on Delicious, and writing a post on Blogger. Grafitter visualizes the information you record in graphs.
Threading
We’re quite familiar with the idea of writing a program that follows a specific sequence of steps as outlined in, say, a main() function. A Thread is also a series of steps with a beginning, a middle, and an end. A thread’s sequence, however, can run independently of the main program. In fact, we can launch any number of threads at one time and they will all run concurrently. Visit the Java site for a more involved explanation.
This is incredibly useful when it comes to data mining, as we can have separate threads retrieving different pieces of information from the network. If one gets stuck or has an error, the entire program won’t grind to a halt, since the error only stops that individual thread. To create independent, asynchronous threads, we simply extend the Thread class.
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Si l’on ajoute à cela la récente autorisation de la photographie à la BnF, on se couche satisfait… en attendant la prochaine étape : la Bundesarchiv a déjà versé 100 000 photos dans Wikimedia Commons, la base de données de Wikipédia, et la deutsche Fotothek 250 000. Alors, à quand la BnF, la RMN, les AN et toutes les AD ?
"Géoïdd (Géographie et indicateurs liés au développement durable) est l'outil de cartographie interactive du Service de l’Observation et des Statistiques (SOeS). Il permet de cartographier de nombreuses informations liées au développement durable sur la métropole et les quatre départements d’outre mer. "
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