By William M. Hartnett on Jan 5, 2009 in newspaper buildings | 0 Comments
This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is the Abilene Reporter-News. Mash your mouse on the picture below to fiddle with the map.

And in Google Maps Street View:
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By William M. Hartnett on Jan 1, 2009 in featured, oddities | 0 Comments
The arrival of a new year here at Hartnett headquarters can mean only one thing: Obsessive detailing of my 2001 1.8T manual transmission Volkswagen Jetta’s mileage performance. Check out the 2007 edition here, and get a feel for the extent of my mileage-tracking obsession over here. Here’s a graph of my daily miles per gallon from mid-2001 to the end of 2008. Click the image for a bigger version:

Well, I say daily, but I’ve actually applied each tank’s overall MPG to each day between refuelings. So two obvious trends are that I buy gas much less often these days and get significantly better mileage. Meet me after the jump for more chart fun. Read the rest
By William M. Hartnett on Dec 29, 2008 in newspaper buildings | 0 Comments
This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The Tennessean. Mash your mouse on the picture below to fiddle with the map.

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By William M. Hartnett on Dec 22, 2008 in newspaper buildings | 0 Comments
This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is home to The Vancouver Sun and The Province. Fact: Vancouver is in Canadaland, a foreign country, which makes this only the third edition of Paper View Monday to feature a newspaper outside the United States, which makes me very worldly. Mash your mouse on the picture below to fiddle with the map.

By William M. Hartnett on Dec 20, 2008 in florida home, work | 0 Comments

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Valencia Pointe west of Boynton Beach.
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