Golden on Google
Golden, CO
After trying out the GeoMashup and Geo Plugins, and not being able to get them to work properly (God, IDiot!), I decided to go another route and look at the Geo Maps Plugin for Wordpress. The only downside is that I’ve got to hit up the Google Maps page to get use the URL. The way the Geo Maps Plugin works, you must supply the “Link to this page” URL from the map page in order to link to the correct map. The upside? I kow for sure that the map will be identical to the one from the page where I took the map link. I can also save the map in My Maps sinced I’m logged in to my Google account.
Here’s a sample. Click on the marker. Go on, don’t be afeared.
This is the MarkerText With an Image
Some example parameters + style:
- googlemap Renders a map with controls, marker an default sizes, as specified in the plugin’s admin page, under WP Options.
- googlemap;nocontrols;w:300;h:200 Renders a 300×200 map with marker but no zoom controls.
- googlemap;nomarker;nocontrols;w:100;h:100 Renders a small 100×100 map without marker and zoom controls.
- googlemap;nomarker;nocontrols;w:100%;h:300 Renders a maps that fills the full width available with a 300 pixels height, without markers and zoom controls.
Go check it out if you haven’t already…
HTPC - Home Theater PC
For quite awhile now, I’ve wanted to set up a media center PC in my Living Room to make internet access, digital photos, music and videos more convenient. Plus, it would just be really cool to be able to jump online and check email in between movies or TV shows. Here’s a diagram of the proposed addition (1 and 3) and my plan for configuring it into my current network.
My main goal was being able to listen to music - stored on my network’s external hardrive - and surf the internet using my home theater audio system. Other tasks like viewing digital photos and videos are nice-to-haves. That said, I’m not necessarily planning on using this HTPC to view TV or to record digital video. I have another PC with a TV-Wonder card (I think that’s its name) and I might re-purpose the card at a later time. I don’t see much of a reason to do so right now, given that fact that I’m happy with the current setup and am only looking to add the PC to the exiting hardware.. Maybe in the future, I’ll set it up to record video to the PC’s hard drive.