Winter is coming here.

It arrived the other Sunday with an almighty 2-day wallop of snow, and a 20-degree drop in temperature.

And right on schedule - I think that pretty much every year since I arrived in Calgary, there has been a definitive “winter starts now” moment, almost always falling within a week of Hallowe’en. So this year was only a ( Read more... )

+Will be giving a talk at a GIS conference in late May, on some of the things we’re using GIS for in the environmental / NGO sector. Exciting! I’m now, of course, stressing out (in a minor way) about what kind of audience I should be aiming my talk at. Me being who I am, and having the background that I do, I of course tend to approach ArcGIS as if ( Read more... )

hsifyppah is pretty damn smart. Y’all should listen to her.

So as the latest in a series of not-so-great ideas, the post I had here was probably one.

Here. have a map of energy lease sales instead:

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2011: A Year in ReviewIt's been a busy and full year. A number of times in the last month or two I've looked back over the last 12, and marveled that it has all happened just in 2011. Really? There are a whole bunch of pluses in the first column, too (well, at least: there are a bunch of rather big pluses, and most of the minuses are minor ( Read more... )

13 days, yay!

And wow... so much has been happening (or at least it feels like it).

( long rambling post )