rob was here.

Google Maps have recently added several high-resolution satellite images of newfoundland to its mapping service. Check it out. You can notice them on the map because they look like brownish squares compared to the non high-resolution areas. The wierd thing is that the new high-res areas are not really the urbanized areas of the island. I figured st. johns and it's surrounding suburbinite growths (mount pearl, paradise, cbs) would get coverage before, say, the burin penninsula. Oh well. At least it's progress. I can't wait till I can zoom so far as I can see my house. I'd like to know when google plans of taking the cbs pictures so i can go outside and wave.. :)

I tried playing around with Ubuntu Live this morning but I couldn't get it to use my wireless card correctly.. And thus I couldn't access my network or the internet. I also was shocked to see how it couldn't detect my windows partitions, which should be a huge feature for a live linux cd.. All my files are on my windows partitions, and it would be nice to have access to them from a bootable linux cd. Knoppix can do this, i'm fairly certain. I'm not sure why Ubuntu doesn't. Oh well, i'm back in the comfort of windows now.

I have completed my first week at work. It was a short week, as monday was a holiday. Things are moving along quite well there. I've been listening to a lot of the new White Stripes album as well as The Arcade Fire this weekend. Good bands.

I'm thinking about looking for a used mountain bike this week. Something fairly small and collapsable so I can take it around in the car.

--update:
after looking around in the high-res areas of newfoundland on google maps.. I found these two interesting pictures:
this one is of a plane in flight, in what appears to be an area close to grand-falls..
this one is of ocre pit cove. This is where my uncles had their boat docked when I was a lad. I used to depart from here to go cod jigging in the summers. You can still see boats in the water there.