James Fee GIS Blog

I’ll be back hopefully next week.

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Between traveling to Denver for FRUGOS-apalooza, getting sick from my son, vacation and now a root canal; it has been quite the week for me. I’m back in the office putting the finishing touches on a proposal that I should have finished last week. I hope to catch back up on blogging in [...]

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Looks like I’ve run out of disk space with my blog and the database is confused. Comments seem to have disappeared and reappeared at will. On top of it, my son seems to have given me his flu cold (I took one for the team and stayed home with him today, but I’m [...]

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Thanks to reader “KipterUh” my blog now has a translator available to convert my rants into many other languages. Click on the flag on the sidebar that matches the language you want to read my blog in and enjoy. What is nice about the translator is that you can bookmark the links so [...]

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I’ll be busy with my new Nintendo Wii today (and probably the rest of the week). I’m already getting beaten at EA Playground and Donkey Kong Blast, but holding my own at MLB Power Pros and Carnival Games. It wasn’t all Wii though for me. The wife did get me something I [...]

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Its been a cold and blistery day here in Tempe, Arizona (well by Tempe standards at least) so I’m ready to get the fire burning and the Kahlua hot chocolate flowing. My son Connor has been bouncing off the walls full of Christmas candy and cookies and the anticipation that Santa is on his [...]

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Most of you already know this is Geography Awareness Week. There are many ways to help promote geography this week, but I’ve come up with my own. I’m taking the family to Disneyland.
I’ll be back on Monday, have a great week guys.

Connor’s last trip to Disneyland 18 months ago.

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Here are some of the latest blogs I’ve added to Planet Geospatial:

http://jeffhobbs.net/ - Jeff Hobbs’ Intergraph and GIS Technology Blog
http://slashgeo.org/ - SlashGeo (added back in)
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/ - Henri Bergius
http://www.bostongis.com/blog/ - Boston GIS Blog
http://geochalkboard.wordpress.com/ - GeoChalkboard
http://idvux.spaces.live.com/ - Designing Composite Applications

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You guys are worse than a sewing circle. I can’t go out and enjoy a movie with my son for a couple hours and you bloggers have me taking a “dirt nap”. Look I appreciate the emails, text messages, instant messages and such but this is ridiculous. I made a bad changed [...]

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The one person who I should have contacted about the previous post wasn’t consulted before blogging. A bounced back email isn’t a confirmation no matter how many people say he’s leaving. I should have waited for an “official” email from him before posting that he was leaving. I apologize to David and [...]

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Here are the new blogs I’ve added this week:

Mapperz (technically not new as I had removed it by mistake)
GeoWeb Blog
Making Maps: DIY Cartography
GeoMusings (added back in)
Thinking in GIS - Paolo Corti (again dropped for no reason)

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I got an email from someone who likes Planet Geospatial, but wants to know when and what feeds I add so they can update their feed reader. I used to have a change log, but that got a little behind so I figure I’ll just blog when I add feeds. The 5 6 [...]

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I got an email from a fan:
from xxxxx@hotmail.com
to james.fee@gmail.com
date Jun 15, 2007 6:04 AM
subject re: James Fee GIS Blog
James,
You are such a wikicracker. Grow up.

I had not heard of the term wikicracker before, but Urban Dictionary is my friend.

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If you receive the email subscription to Planet Geospatial, you’ll need to update your email again. I’ve tried to work with FeedBurner to recover the email subscription list, but they can’t do that.
So, if you want to renew your Planet Geospatial email subscription (there were about 400 of you), you’ll need to [...]

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Something has happened at Feedburner and the PlanetGS RSS feed has been deleted. They are working at bringing it back, but I’m not too hopeful that they’ll get it straitened out. The smart thing to do is just use the native Atom feed below.
http://www.planetgs.com/atom.xml

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Christopher Schmidt set up an IRC channel and we’ve started talking shop. I’ve put the coordinates on the Planet Geospatial page, but you can grab them here if you wish.
Planet Geospatial IRC
Server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #planetgeospatial
Update - Christopher has a web based IRC client for those who can’t install or use IRC on their workstations.

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Just got a confirmation from Websense:
Thank you for writing to Websense.
The site you submitted is a virtually hosted site that was not in our database. However, it shares an IP address with another site in our database which caused an unintended overblock. The site has been reviewed and categorized accordingly:
http://www.planetgs.com/ - Information Technology
Categorization [...]

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I know, I’ve been claiming that I’ve been working on a better Planet Geospatial than the one that currently exists for quite some time now. Well the good news is that its done and the DNS should be updating as we speak. The older Planet software was dated and couldn’t handle Atom feeds [...]

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Yes you can see, the PHP lite Planet GS has finally crashed. The view is not pretty.
The good news is that the new/old Planet GS built on Python is just about ready to go. I’ve got the DNS to change over so as soon as that takes, we’ll be back to having a [...]

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Well the house is no longer mine and the moving van has left. I’m glad that is over, but I’m only halfway there.

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