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guilty, originally uploaded by kechambers. It’s time for another round of TRT term voting. What’s going to make the cut this round? Will “Vehicular ad hoc networks” finally find its way into Facet X? (No.) What about “Blended cement?” (Probably). Every time we go through another quarter’s discussions about new terms for the TRT, it…

my function, fibbo, originally uploaded by kendrak. These are two of my first homemade Python functions. For n, you can compute n factorial or Fibonacci. These are simple enough tasks, but it took me a few evenings of deep thought and concentration to get here. I’m not a programmer and training my brain to think…

– road-block –, originally uploaded by Jacqueline ter Haar. This has been a weird week. I received my 90-day layoff notice on Monday. My last day at MPOW will be August 1. It sucks, but it’s just a sign of larger problems. The institute I work for is crumbling since most of the research funding…

Idle Transit Data is the Devil’s Playground, originally uploaded by williac. So yesterday I posted my first thoughts about Transportation Camp. Today I’m following up. Let’s talk about data licensing. In the afternoon I attended a couple of sessions focused on transit data. One, lead by Ian White of Urban Mapping, discussed data licenses for…

Transpo crowd, originally uploaded by transportationcamp. A few weeks ago I skipped soccer (and my team’s historic 7-0 victory) to attend Transportation Camp in San Francisco. It was a blast, and I sort of regret missing the second day of it, but I also had a great time at the Baseball Hall of Fame last…