Further to last night's post and based on some carefully aligned photos, I am a little disappointed to conclude that the EXIF value GPSDirectionRef that the iPhone 3Gs inserts is (only) the camera's magnetic heading expressed as a rational number and not (as I'd hoped) the camera's 3D orientation in …
more ...On a hunch I checked the EXIF data attached to my first photos from my new iPhone. The intriguing news is that it has values such as:
GPSImageDirection : 2535/383
GPSImageDirectionRef: T
The GpsImageDirectionRef = "T" appears to be a constant.(Update: signifies True and not Magnetic north.)
Pointing the camera …
more ...Driven by the mocking of a colleague for never having done the stupid gruntwork of rewriting my old DasBlog-based permalinks, I stole Jon Udell's python code and ran it over the 8+ year history of Knowing.net. I think it mostly worked, although internal links between posts remain broken, since …
more ...CompuServe Classic is shutting down. I had no idea they were still extant. I wonder if the CLMFORUM and AIEXPERT message boards are archived...
Coincidentally, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of my moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to become Product Review Editor at Computer Language and AI Expert …
more ...Amateur astrophotographers recorded more than 1TB of data in the creation of this high-res image of the surface of the moon. Pretty.
more ...Tim Bray has a good post about "Test-Driven Heresy," in which he admits failing to live up to the ideal of writing tests firsts and only writing enough code to pass a test.
I'm Catholic in my test-driven beliefs, which is to say that I am a terrible sinner, but …
more ...My column on ASP.NET MVC is finally available. Note that since this column was written, ASP.NET MVC integration with Visual Studio 2010 Beta has become available.
more ...In the past week, my first-gen iPhone seems to have decided that the time has come for me to move on to a new 3GS. First my Wi-Fi stopped working. Then I upgraded to 3.0. When I try to activate "Find my iPhone" it doesn't work (but maybe that's …
more ...The Big Island of Hawaii is a single county whose spending is controlled by a 9-person county council. The problem is that our local government is ridiculously petty, with an "East side vs. West side" dynamic that flies in the face of the needs and sentiment of the people who …
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