aggregated thinking

If I pointed you to another blog of mine, would you visit that as much, considering that it would have mostly techno babble in it, and that it won't have the indispensable "my friends" link (because it's not on LJ)? Pardon me, I never thought I'd be quoting myself this early. =). I just feel like I got to explain myself. I've been on LJ since 2000. There's a high level of pride associated with web logging that early, and I know most of us have been around and can relate to this feeling. But given that after a few years, you get your own server to use and become productive with, I doubt if you will be able to resist favoring the higher level of customization afforded to you. Now I won't start comparing web logging tools and facilities because I can't. LJ is using established methods and protocols and have carved a niche in the blogosphere. In fact, I personally think LJ should be getting royalties just by being around when web logging was still at i...

If I pointed you to another blog of mine, would you visit that as much, considering that it would have mostly techno babble in it, and that it won't have the indispensable "my friends" link (because it's not on LJ)?

I had a good consultation session with my mentor last Saturday and I got great advise for my thesis. I'm planting my foot on GIS and applications, but the whole gamut of GIS is fairly large so I had to zero in on what I really wanted to focus on. Future research prospects on GIS led me to look up Geographic Resources Analysis Support System, commonly referred to as GRASS . It's so cool because for starters, it's GPLed, and it will run on PostgreSQL. It's primarily designed for Linux so I need to have Cygwin run on the host that I will be using to interface with our Linux and non-Linux backends. In a nutshell, my thesis will be concentrating on GIS and data warehouse integration. Should there be an existing or current data warehouse for me to work on, I should be able to model the integration, using the appropriate schema. Should there be no data warehouse, I will have to model from scratch and present and enforce the design.

Today, I got the worst headache to date (by my standards of course). I actually dipped my head in a sink full of warm water. Ugh. By the way, I did a double take here . Wala lang.

Ayt, it has been almost 10 years since I last watched Dune, but the plot, the lines...they all came back to me when Matt posted the Litany of Fear on his website. Sure does bring back the awe I felt back then.

Article by Per Rolfhamre 1 , Katarzyna Grabowska1 and Karl Ekdahl 1, 2 1 Department of Epidemiology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Nobels väg 18, SE-17182 Solna, Sweden 2 Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, SE-17177 Stockholm, Sweden The authors have sufficiently summarized the study by including the purpose, methods, results, and conclusions or summary. The study was focused on the discussion of the considerations and technology of a created public web-based GIS service, which has already been deployed. The abstract is not entirely written in the past tense. The article doesn’t have an introduction part, and instead presented a background of the study. Although citations are made, the review of literature was very minimal. There were no references to similar works done in the area of study in this part of the study. References to similar systems are done in the discussion of results part of the study. The underlying conce...

Article by Michael R Cayo and Thomas O Talbot Geographic Research and Analysis Section, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, New York State Department of Health, 547 River Street, Room 200, Troy, NY 12180-2216, USA The authors have sufficiently summarized the study by including the purpose, methods, results, and conclusions or summary. The study has identified positional error correction as their purpose, with the objective of determining if the errors in geographic encoding could impact results. The study focused on the discussion of the ability of GIS-based applications to locate residential addresses as closely as possible with the proposed alternative method of geographic encoding using residential property parcel data, instead of the automated geographic encoding. The study emphasized on the application of GIS-based systems in public health, and how important precision in geographic encoding is to ensuring that public health studies are not compromised. There is ...