Where on Earth…?
One of the pleasures in owning a computer is the variety of things you can do with it. Or rather the pleasures of owning a computer and the Internet. Or maybe it should be the pleasures of owning a computer and the Internet and high speed access.
You don’t really know how much pleasure high speed access is until it is suddenly not there. It isn’t so frustrating to use dial-up for internet access - until you have had the use of ADSL (Broadband) that runs at 10 or more times the speed of dial-up.
We have a Broadband plan that runs at ADSL2+ speeds. This means, particularly at the off peak times, speeds that allow downloads of 200MB’s in just a few minutes. It’s not unusual to start a download of sixty or seventy MB’s & have it finish so quickly you think something went wrong with the download.
So, what do you do with all that speed and bandwidth? Well, Mr JM regularly downloads TV shows that I haven’t seen. He downloaded a couple of seasons of Charmed for me – I hadn’t been able to watch them before I came to Australia – and we’ve caught up on all the new Doctor Who and Torchwood episodes.
But one of the most addictive things to do is Google Earth.
Google Earth lets you strap on a satellite and fly to wherever you wish and zoom into anything you want to see. Occasionally frustrating (when there are only low resolution scans of something you want to view, it is hard to stop it once you begin. Google has a site where people post their findings and discuss what they see. Google Earth http://bbs.keyhole.com/entrance.php?Cat=
It’s possible to waste many hours ‘travelling’ the world in Google earth.
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