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Monday, June 16, 2003

New Venture #642: Capulet Communcations I keep forgetting to mention this, but my wife and I have started a company: Capulet Communications. Here's the elevator pitch: Capulet Communications provides professional writing, marketing and public relations services designed specifically for high-tech companies. That's us in a nutshell. For more information, check out our services page. We've also got a nascent professional writing weblog going. It won't be updated as often as this one, but it may be of interest to people in the industry. Aside from the logo, I built the whole site from scratch. That curve took me hours to get right. 11:07:21 AM        Internet Mixed Bag

The Degree Confluence Project Yet another whimsical, useless but fascinating Internet idea. Roland Piquepaille's insightful blog pointed me to The Degree Confluence Project: 3,000 adventurers around the globe, equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) devices, are visiting the exact confluences of latitude and longitude, taking pictures and writing stories about these places. The Degree Confluence Project site shows the results of their efforts: 2,500 confluences are illustrated by more than 20,000 photographs taken in 121 countries. They call it 'a sampling of the world,' which is just a sophisticated way of saying 'something nifty to do with our GPS devices.' That said, I'm sold. Unfortunately their site is kind of unstable at the moment--I believe the hamster is getting a little fatigued. I did manage to spot the closest identified confluence to me, though: 50 degrees north, 121 degrees west.  Of course, the Canada/US border is on the 49th paralell, so it may be tricky to get accurate results along that latitude without, say, getting your ass arrested by those Homeland Security lads. 10:30:45 AM        Culture Internet