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Busy day at school today. The picture is of Dr Gary Coutu setting up some of the posters for the West Chester University Geography Club and Department of Geography and Planning's contribution to the world-wide celebration today of GIS Day, sponsored by ESRI, the makers of the ArcGIS suite of mapping products. It is a day when Geography students and educators can show how they have applied the emerging technology of Geographic Information Systems to their research and classwork, as well as to introduce the ways that GIS can be used in any number of areas. That's my poster in the lower right=hand corner of the picture!

Also, this is my first test post using the blogging interface from Flickr!

I guess I must be making progress in my re-entry into the academic world. Just moments ago, I submitted my first abstract for a poster presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Association for American Geographers. Granted, submission does not mean acceptance, but it is such a thrill just to feel that I may have the opportunity to present at a national meeting! The really super part is that it is being held this coming April in San Francisco, California, a place that I truly love. And if I am fortunate enough to be accepted, there just may be a cross-country rail trip to get there as well, something I have always wanted to do. More on that later since I have a status report due tomorrow for my Local History class.

A computer in my possession can only remain a virgin so long. I am determined, though, to keep it as pure as possible (how many times have I said that...). I now have my old laptop permanently placed on the counter in my office, tethered to power, network, cameras, and printer, to act as my office hub. It still has life left in it, eventhough no longer at my side wherever I wander. In fact, I am going to drive another audio stream off of it, focusing on just the Chester County frequencies, using my Radio Shack Pro-2052. First things installed were Firefox, Arachnophilia, and WS-FTP, my basic tools of the trade. Today, I am installing the other goodies in my toolbox, ArcGIS 9.1 and Fireworks. I am having a problem with ArcGIS at the moment. I got the full product and all my data installed, considerably faster than the last time I did it courtesy of the Duo Core and a gig of memory. Now, after filling out the registration information, I am getting unable to connect to the registration server. The good thing is that I can just go back a step and keep trying. The bad thing is that I have to click a dozen check boxes to get my extensions registered. In the meanwhile, I will go off and collect my ArcGIS add-ons so they will be ready to go. Still freaking raining here - maybe I should be building an ark versus building Arc(GIS)...

With all my recent work and tinkering, I need to get back to increasing my knowledge in Geography (and also get to some unfinished business). While I am at it, I'm opening a Geography category here, something I thought I had done some time ago. First map to get done today is one for directions to the bus pickup area at the Exton Square Mall for everyone going to Harrisburg a week from Monday to see Andy Dinniman sworn in as our new State Senator. To work!