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Curtis Jones

God-fearing, mountain-climbing, software engineer.

📍 Atlanta, GA https://curtisjones.us

Happy [Early] Birthday, GMail!

Five years ago (tomorrow), Google surprised us with the biggest April Fool's joke ever: a free email account with 1GB of space. It was unheard of at the time. Everyone knew it was a joke. For the next several months, those all-valuable GMail invitations were being sold, pawned

Motivation

The problem is that I enjoy my job. Nearly the entire time I worked at Bloomberg, the majority of the time I was at Lime Wire and some of the time I was at the Wall Street Journal, going to work was associated with stress and/or boredom. I can

I'm Sorry

I didn't realize that my test posts wouldn't be deleted from the feed when I deleted them from the blog. Whoops. Anyway, I moved the Locator messages to a new home: whereiscurtis.blogspot.com If you want to be irritated by frequent test posts, start following

Check This Action Out

Okay, so, I added a Postgres database (which has support for PostGIS) to the system. I've got a "location" table and a "tracklog" table. In the location table I added about a dozen points-of-interest, including McKinley base camp, the five other camps and the

FindMeSpot Locator Alert

Apparently we're still alive: Location: 42.4876, -72.0183 Timestamp: 01/01/2009 20:32:22 (US/Eastern) Map: Google Maps Closest point of interest: Description: Home - New York, New York, USA Location: 40.70864, -74.00647 Distance: 142.49 miles

FindMeSpot Locator Alert

Apparently we're still alive: Location: -71.2857, 44.3313 Timestamp: 02/25/2009 19:46:39 (US/Eastern) Map:Google Maps

From Mountain Side to Blog Post

I'm not willing to lug all of the necessary equipment to do blogging from the mountain-side. I'll have a satellite phone with me so I can always just *talk* to people. However, Corey is bringing along his Spot Personal Locator. A couple hundred dollars gets you

FindMeSpot Locator Alert

Apparently we're still alive: Location: -71.2857, 44.3313 Timestamp: 02/25/2009 19:46:39 (US/Eastern) Map: Google Maps

I Hate Email

One day I'll elaborate on The Great Email Disaster of a couple years ago. I recently took the time to undo some of the damage from that aforementioned disaster and move myself back over to OS X Mail from GMail's web interface. It's good

Powered by Chocolate

I did my WoD #1 in 29:05 today. That's two minutes faster than my first attempt. Still got a ways to go until 25:00. Might be unrealistic. We'll see. I think I'll have some chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and chocolate

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