When I was a kid, we listened to the local radio station for updates on impending snow storms. Next came storm tracking updates from the local broadcast TV news with updates on the half hour.
While at UMF in the early 90’s, one the computer center staff created a program that rendered raw NOAA satellite data over an image of a Maine map. We could see real-time satellite maps of a comming storm – it you counted the 30 minute rendering time on a 286 PC and nearly as long downloading the data files over the university 56k line.
Later, I remember hovering over weather.com for updated views and reports.
This morning, we are on the bleeding edge of Web 2.0 as the boys hover over the NOAA’s beta display . Their NEXRAD maps use a composite of Google Maps, radar images and weather warnings complete with animated time loops.
Now, if they could only do real-time Street View of the storm so I know when the plow trucks have blocked in the end f the driveway!
Mother/Daughter Blogs – Let the games begin!
My wife and teen-aged daughter have started blogging with a view toward presenting “two sides” of the same issues. They are currently just getting comfortable with the idea of blogging and using the Wordpress interfaces, but should start sharing common topics and situations, if not common view points. At some point we will move them to the 91CourtStreet.net domain, but until then they are hanging out at Wordpress.com.
Wendy is the love of my life, but Petra is 99% my DNA so it should be interesting, to say the least!
It was kind of my idea so I only have myself to blame if I end up hiding out in the basement…
The wife’s blog is at http://whatdiddadsay.wordpress.com/
The daughter has a page at http://sothedrama.wordpress.com/
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