{"id":87613835,"date":"2005-02-07T23:41:56","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T07:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613835"},"modified":"2005-02-07T23:52:18","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T07:52:18","slug":"i-might-never-get-lost-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613835","title":{"rendered":"I might never get lost again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maps.Google.Com<\/a> is in Beta.<\/p>\n<p>Wow&#8230;  Wow&#8230;  Wow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Grab the map with your mouse, drag it around.  Point at stuff and zoom in.  Find your &#8216;hood, and then ask for Wifi in the area.  Donuts.  Computer stores.  Goldfish.  Pop-up ballons showing addresses that <i>cast shadows on the map<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like the Sims2, only with Live Data (and less time to figure out what colour hair you want).<\/p>\n<p>Crazy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Go Google it now<\/a><br \/>\nand you can <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=250%20Howe%20St.%2C%20vancouver%2C%20bc&#038;spn=0.014282%2C0.020210\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here<\/a> to see where I work.<\/p>\n<p>The day they beta an Office suite that includes connectivity to MSExchange, I&#8217;m uninstalling MSOffice at home.<\/p>\n<p>(No, not really.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps.Google.Com is in Beta. Wow&#8230; Wow&#8230; Wow&#8230; Grab the map with your mouse, drag it around. Point at stuff and zoom in. Find your &#8216;hood, and then ask for Wifi in the area. Donuts. Computer stores. Goldfish. Pop-up ballons showing addresses that cast shadows on the map It&#8217;s like the Sims2, only with Live Data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}