“Well, this is an IM window. But there are no arriving IMs in it. Beginning to suspect that running my own Jabber server wasn't a good idea. Noone bothers testing...”
Physical maps that can contain multiple layers of data. So you _can_ approach the problem from the other direction. It's just a slightly nasty hack. Clever, though. - Tom Insam
Apparently , "internet maps such as Google and Multimap were good for driving but left out crucial data people need to understand a landscape". Which is rubbish. Firstly, as blech says, "if the OS had licenced its data to Google Maps, then maybe people would use it". But mostly I hate this old-fashioned attitude that there's only one possible view of a map, and that it therefore has to contain everything. As Google say in the article, churches, shops, landmarks, etc, are _on_ _the_ _map_. They're just in an information layer that's not visible by default. The ability to see a custom map with the information relevant to me at a particular moment is _great_. The interface for displaying this stuff is lacking. But I'd much rather approach the problem from this direction than trying to deal with a single map for all purposes. - Tom Insam
Fascinating stuff about the techniques Dungeon Siege uses to power its continuous world. Includes scary threading, performance hacks, etc. via some other tab that's long since been eaten by the ravages of time and system crashes (thank goodness for what little session saving Safari does) but I think I might have been tomc. - Tom Insam
For future reference, the Apple support ticket that explains that I can't sync subscribed calendars up to me.com, thus making it <a href="http://jerakeen.org/notes/2008...">totally useless</a>. - Tom Insam
> One thing we don't want to get into is a situation common in more "modular" systems where introductory documentation ends with "Congratulations on getting the base system installed; here's a list of five hundred components you can use, go pick the one you want because we refuse to take a stance on it." - Tom Insam
