3rd October 2003, lunch time | Comments (2)
What do you know about mazes?
My knowledge is fairly limited: there’s the story of the maze, the Minotaur and that chap (Theseus) with the string; and there’s a famous maze in England called the Hampton Court Maze. I’m not sure if I’ve been there myself, but by all accounts it’s a tricky one.
And that’s about it.
Well, to this less than impressive knowledge base I can now add another entry: The Route From Our Front Door To The Computer Room And Back.
It’s a killer.
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The image displayed above is a 1600 pixel-wide panoramic view from the top of my parents’ house in Dorset, England. The system uses an XML weather feed from their local airbase to provide an up-to-the-minute graphical representation of the current weather, moon, and daylight conditions at their house. It's pretty cool, really.
You can read more about the panorama, and how it was created, in the Colophon; or you can select an option from below and view detailed weather information for Dorset, or for San Francisco (where I currently live).