Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries Tagged ‘google’

Fun with public records

This is what I’ve been doing the past few hours. I know I’ll pay for it dearly in the essence of that I’ll not get any sleep, but it’s pretty cool. I’ve been poring through FCC records all night looking at the owners and locations of all communications towers in the area. It started when [...]

Tracking

I just told Nick this, but there’s a hell of a line of storms on the way. This is how I look at what’s coming. I have KML files of the NWS warning polygons and several assorted radar images loaded into Google Earth, including storm relative motion and wind velocity data. (Download here.) This is [...]

The Street View black hole

Unsurprisingly, I have a beef with Google. I am no stranger to beefs with Google. However, this one is a bit more vain than previously. Owensboro recently was blessed by the Google-gods with Street View. Exciting, exciting, exciting. What does one do upon their first visit to Street View? They look for their house. However, [...]

Interesting search terms

I (generally) monitor my site statistics with Google Analytics. I’m just curious to know how people get to my site and blog. My blog visits via search engine are going up, and just like Godwin’s Law, as you get more visits from search engines, the likelihood of seeing some very odd search terms approaches 1. [...]