http://retrovirus.com/incr Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:46:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Right now, if you visit Google Reader on the iPhone, you get redirected to the mobile XHTML version of Reader. This works fine for browsing through feed items, but when you click "See original" to go to source page for an entry, you get the stripped-down Google Web Transcoder ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2007/07/super-see-original/ My latest side project is [Headway](http://headwayblog.com), a resource for public transit hackers and the agencies who... often aren't sure what to make of them. For whatever reason, the combination of sharp urban-dwelling creative folk and useful-but-confusing public transit systems has yielded many handy sites dedicated to making it easier ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2007/03/dabble-db-shortcomings/ A few weeks ago, I went on a hike to [Treasure Island](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island,_California), and I thought it'd be a good opportunity to try out the state of the art in simple photo geotagging, so that people could see photos of my trip on a map. My first test involved: 1. Uploading ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2006/06/picasa-geotagging/ ...for 20% of my time, anyway. My teammates and I are proud to present [Google Transit](http://www.google.com/transit), a new Google Labs experiment focused on helping make public transit information more accessible and understandable. We're starting with Portland, Oregon's transit system, but we'll be expanding it to support other cities soon. For more ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/12/google-transit/ This is for the benefit of future searchers: if you're trying to install iTunes on Windows and it dies during the Quicktime installation with a "-3" error, or you try to install Quicktime 7.0.3 on Windows and you get an Error 1714 or some complaint about not being able to ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/11/quicktime-problem/ Since I had the day off today, I had some time to tinker with my [MBTA Google Maps experiment](http://retrovirus.com/experiments/gmbta/) and fix a few things which had been bugging me. The changes include: * You can now look for times near a particular address using the Location area under the ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/09/gmbta-update/ In my previous [post about coroutines](http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/08/coroutines/), I mentioned that I'd be looking into [LuaJava](http://www.keplerproject.org/luajava/) (a bridge between Java and the [Lua](http://www.lua.org/) language) as a way to get coroutine behavior in a Java environment. Since I had some time this afternoon, I decided to get LuaJava up and running on ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/08/building-luajava/ My current work project involves lots of small bits of code talking to each other asynchronously and requesting data from a distributed network. This means that when my code goes to retrieve a piece of data, it may be returned quickly, slowly, or not at all. Because of ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/08/coroutines/ [](http://www.abyssoft.com/software/teleport/) The typical setup in my office is that I have my G5 powering two monitors front and center, and the powerbook beside them, on a (modified) [iCurve](http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/icurve/) for ergonomic viewing. While this is great for the displays, it leaves the problem of controlling the laptop. At one point ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/08/teleport/ [](http://retrovirus.com/experiments/gmbta/) Since Google so graciously released an [API](http://www.google.com/apis/maps/) for their excellent [mapper](http://maps.google.com/) last week, I figured I'd take it for a spin. I had written some code to prise nearby stops and bus times from the [MBTA's handy trip planner](http://trip.mbta.com) a while back, and so I decided to glom them ... http://retrovirus.com/incr/2005/07/gmbta/