Taking my blog way off route here - I just saw this tidbit in the news...

GM to cut truck shifts, leading to layoffs

High gas prices, slump in housing hold back automaker’s sales

Here is a thought - it is mine - What if GM re-assigned these 3500 hungry people to developing a prototype American car (or truck even)  that is twice as fuel efficient as the guzzling hogs that are gathering dust in car lots across the country? nuff said.

Browsers these days...

In 10 years there will be a Google Browser, a Microsoft Browser, an Adobe Browser and this is how they will render the <ice cream cone> tag.

<chocolate>

<vanilla>

<strawberry>

Cross-browser functionality is like balancing a donkey on an exercise ball on a bowling ball. By the way, Internet Explorer 8 won't support opacity, because opacity is for losers...alright...enough venting.

So what's happening here at Redtrails.com?

A few things:

- I've finally installed a way to track activity on the site and can see that it's getting a lot of use - mostly Californians...That's ok I guess ;).  Even some people from Germany and Italy - welcome!

- I'm looking at putting a tag cloud in because, no matter how trendy, I still think they're cool.

- Special thanks go out to user 'john' for his report that the gpx files were not validating.  Maybe I'm not reading the GPX schema right but it looks to me like the child <cmt> tag is acceptable under the parent <trk> tag...I'll look into it but I made the change anyway.

- Still working on serving those ultra-rad embedded hillshade tiles but I've run into a few stumbling blocks - georeferencing 1.8gb tiffs in Mapcruncher can be a laborious process and avoiding ugly seams is harder than I thought...working on a script to export tiles from ArcGIS.  I can't believe there isn't one on ArcScripts yet...hopefully that will change soon.