16th September 2004, early afternoon | Comments (28)
A few weeks ago I hooked up with Jonas, and his new co-worker, Ram, for a trip to Jackson Arms Shooting Range. I’ve never fired anything more deadly than an air-gun (or a ‘beebee’ gun for the americans among us), but I’ve always wondered what a real gun would feel like, so when I saw on his site that Jonas had membership at a range, I asked him straight away if he would give me a lesson…
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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).