I’m going to rename “Wednesday” to “Waynesday”.  Any Objections?  See if you can spot the references to me in the following subsections.

Google Maps “Street View”

I suppose I have zero street cred now. Until yesterday, I’d NEVER seen “street view” on Google Maps. I use Google Maps a LOT and I just now noticed the little camera icon on some of the turns.

You click on the camera icon for the turn, and it shows you a picture of what it would look like from your car if you were right at that place!  How crazy is that!??!

That is just plain cool.  But not only that, the arrows are interactive, and can pan and zoom around so you can actually simulate the action of turning.  The visual effect is very impressive.  It’s also remarkable to me how they superimposed the blue lines onto the ground, making me think of the yellow first down markers they do for football games on TV.

I did some tests for my own home, and sure enough, it has the entrance onto my street and actually goes to my mailbox.

I assume it won’t be long before the in-car dash GPS and driving assist systems offer these visual cues.

I assume it won’t be long before the systems can display transparently on the inside of the windshield.

I assume it won’t be long before people are dependent upon the Windshield Automatic Yield Navigation Electronics (WAYNE) system to get anywhere, and the general population will lose its ability to navigate themselves in older cars.

I assume it won’t be long before the first hacker devoted to the Sun God RA, gets into the main centralized street view system, chanting “RA, RA, RA! GOD OF THE SUN!” and turns everyone’s navigation system to point them off the highway, over a side rail and right into the Sun.

SharePoint SP3 issue

We’re in the process of upgrading from SharePoint 2003 to MOSS 2007.  As part of preparation, we loaded service pack 3 on our main SharePoint 2003 server, and everything seemed fine until the next morning, when nobody could use Datasheet view on lists.

Some quick googling helped us find that this is a frequent enough issue that MS issued a hotfix.  So I did an online request for a hotfix, which assured me that I’d hear from them within 8 business hours, which is a long time when you’re paying a consultant to spend time with you onsite to help with the migration.

That’s just too long for me to wait, even WITH an awesome consultant, so some more googling resulted in what the actual “fix” was, which is to add 4 lines to the ows.js file - seems one of the service packs overwrites that file with a version that conveniently disabled activex, something Datasheet view highly depends on.  Ooops!

Which is a nice segue into our most anticipated weekly part of the series:

Best of LOLcats

I wonder if this LOLcat sent his MyCoke code to Avi.

Wow, they’re synchronized hamsters, even.

It’s the kitty that does it for me.

Love the Jazz Hams!

Wow, you are the second person in two days to share their love of maps…I think this is a trend I need to get in on ;).

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I absolutely adore the Diet Coke kitty one. Reminds me of Georgie as a kitten.

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Google maps saved me many times on my last trip in April. Street View is cool, too… especially when it shows my car parked on the street (I previously twittered this).

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The Street View is awesome - there are a couple of great shots, too. One is Detroit, I think, where you can watch a crack deal going down as the Google Van goes down the street. The other is watching this kid wipe out on his bike.

1. http://gawker.com/5004469/a-drug-deal-caught-from-every-angle
2. http://kensingtonvictoria.com/blog/2008/04/22/dude-crashes-bike-on-google-street-view-pics/

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Cool!
Now it’s SO much easier to be a stalker!

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Raganator, I know, they’re adorable! I ham*stare* at them all day…

Hilly, maps is spam backwards, yanno. The more I hate spam, the more I love maps.

Poppy, Georgie Pordgie, puddin’ and pie; gave all mycoke rewards to a. v. i.

martymankins, it’s pretty freaky that their “google car” went down my street seeing as how I’m out in nowhere. I’m surprised they don’t allow people to get the HW (camera, GPS) and submit more, even for pay or something.

Avi, Yeah and I thought I saw a contest where people could submit their funniest street views. I thought my “Driving into the sun” was pretty good, but I’m sure not even close to drug dealing and bike crashing. It won’t be long before ALL electronics have 24×7 camera action and it all goes into the Borg Collective.

Janna, welcome to the blog of whall! Please don’t stalk me.

Well, they probably don’t consider MOSS mission critical, and have a longer TTR in your service contract. Don’t confuse it with Tivoli.

Amon Ra, huh?

Some of those pictures actually made me laugh; the hamsters and stuff. Have you noticed that the cat ones never make me laugh, but the other animal ones sometimes do? Except the sleeping spell. That was cute.

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Abs, funnily enough, I found their hotfix email in my postini spam quarantine box just an hour or so after I requested it. So that was completely my fault.

And I’d have to say teh sleeping spell was actually my favorite of the bunch. And I’ll try to add more LOLcats that aren’t cats for you

Adding to Avi’s list is this Street View image of a girl showing the cameras what she has (don’t worry.. it’s blurry and you don’t really see details)
http://gawker.com/5009185/girl-flashes-google-mapmakers-cameras

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