How does that old saying go? The best compliment or flattery often comes in the form of imitation?
I had an interesting experience tonight. I approved a comment on this blog from a certain email address that eventually took me to a web site called Greenficiency. Sounds fantastic, as they are [...]
Day three at NACIS felt a bit more like a death march. I was exhausted from only getting about 8-9 hours of sleep the previous 72 hours. We also had an always-difficult “Future of Cartographic Perspectives” session in the morning (the international journal of NACIS that seems to always be trying to find its [...]
Day Two started a lot like Day One at NACIS…not nearly enough sleep for Yours Truly. I had good intentions, but trying to catch up on a little work, coupled with catching up with a few friends (and trying to make a few new ones) at the hospitality suite, meant another LATE night.
I spent [...]
I sleep-walked through my presentation at Practical Cartography Day at the 2009 North American Cartographic Information Society annual meeting in Sacramento, California, USA today…after struggling to get MAYBE four hours of sleep last night. However, my session: Ideas for Creating Smaller Interactive
Map File Sizes in .swf Format …seemed to go over well with the [...]
Thought I would document some of my experiences at the 2009 North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) annual meeting in Sacramento, California, USA.
I list today as “Day Zero” as it is effectively just a travel day. I got to the Minneapolis Saint Paul International Airport at 3:00pm this afternoon, all ready to [...]
Google Translate, anyone?!
One of this blog’s regular readers, Jan Stellet, recently shared a posting he wrote in German related to PNG file optimization…asking if I would share a link to it on this site. So for you, Jan, here you go: http://jstc.de/artikel/png-grafiken-optimieren/
One of my favorite things about running this blog is the [...]
Just a quick posting tonight to let people know that PNGSlim 1.0 is now out of beta! Still more to do, from the sound of Andrew Dent’s readme file…but positive progress, which is always tremendously appreciated.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ea2aced/tech/png/pngslim.zip
Edited to add: this link was malfunctioning as of October 15, 2009. I have not figured out why the link [...]
Just a quick FYI to let folks know that I have joined with Stoyan Stefanov at Yahoo! (developer of the smush.it tool) to offer to jointly present a workshop at the 2010 South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. If you’re a fan of the SXSW event, or you’d just like to help Stoyan and [...]
Hey everyone!
Just a quick announcement tonight that version 1.0 of the pngnq tool has officially been released. The major updates in this release include (according to their web site):
“May 2009: Merged ‘improved pngnq‘ and added configure script. Changes include gamma setting, better assignment of transparent colors so they don’t take up too much of the [...]
For folks who know me, you know that the number of sunrises I have seen in my life over the past 8-10 years can probably be counted on two hands. I am the exact opposite of a morning person, and often find myself working until 2:00am, 3:00am or even later! However, today was one [...]
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