neilbert.com - the blog http://neilbert.com/blog Interesting stuff I find or think. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:42:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Foursquare and Maps Okay, so the folks at FlowingData.com pointed out Weeplaces, which is a Foursquare visualizer. Pretty cool. My map looks like this (zoom out so you at least can see Worcester and Smithfield, otherwise it just pings all over the place off map):

Neil Kelly’s Foursquare by WeePlaces.com.

I also just like looking at all my Foursquare [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/foursquare-and-maps/ Another Plan for Facebook I’ve been thinking some more about Facebook. I spend a fair amount of time on their site but what do I really get out of it, especially that I can’t do elsewhere? I mean, I can post pictures to Flickr, status messages to Twitter, longer pieces here. A lot of what gets posted by my [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/another-plan-for-facebook/ Why I Don’t Trust Facebook (And What I’ve Done About It) You may have heard that Facebook is contemplating yet another set of changes to their privacy policy. The part that concerns me most is that they will extend your Facebook login to pre-announce you to other sites when you visit them. So, if you visit Yelp after logging in to Facebook, Yelp can read your [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/why-i-dont-trust-facebook-and-what-ive-done-about-it/ Yield To Vehicles Turning Right – Why Is This So Hard? View Larger Map Okay, this happens pretty frequently so I’m going to bitch about it… why are drivers headed north on Burncoat Street and turning left onto Mountain incapable of understanding that they need to yield the right of way to southbound vehicles turning right onto Mountain?

From the RMV handbook:

When making any left turn, you [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/yield-to-vehicles-turning-right-why-is-this-so-hard/ Realization I had a realization the other day. I’ve always thought of myself as a mapgeek and/or roadgeek. However, there’s another aspect of it – location geek. I like knowing where I am and where I was. I take my GPS everytime I’m going someplace new so I can add it to my map (and maybe [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/realization/ Music for February Nothing new got added this month. The two songs I listened to the most were “Birdhouse In your Soul” by They Might Be Giants – partly because it’s on Grace’s playlist, so it tends to show up more frequently – and “The Underdog” by Spoon, which is just a great track. I think I actually [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/music-for-february/ Truth in Advertising So we stopped at the gas station on the way home tonight. This was the Shell at the intersection of Northeast Cutoff and Rt 70. I’m pumping the gas and notice there’s a sign flapping around above the pumps. It’s for Lowes.

(Yes, horrible picture. It’s cold and rainy.) It says “We’re closer than you [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/truth-in-advertising/ What a miserable drive in. Roads were fine, but sadly there were other drivers out Had I been going to RI, I would have stayed home. Posted via email from neilbert’s posterous

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You know what? I don’t want that. I have it set [...]]]> http://neilbert.com/blog/buzz-twitter-facebook/ I’m probably in the minority, but I think I actually like the new design for Facebook. Of course, I probably would have tested it out and made sure it worked correctly before rolling it out sitewide…. Posted via email from neilbert’s posterous

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