new to me

Wednesday January 5th 2005 05:58 PM PST

I'm usually the last fuckin one to discover a new technology. And when i am shown something new by somebody, i end up thinking "where the fuck have i been?". So last night i built a vector GPS plotter in flash, and today German shows me SVG. I've never seen this shit before, but suddenly i realize that this is EXACTLY what i should be using for my GPS garbage. Then i find that i'm only 4 years behind on finding out about this. Long story short, SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphics) is just XML when it comes down to it. Its a bunch of vector data, and I can EASILY write a php script to put all my GPS data into a XML / SVG format. So i feel a little stupid, but at least i've found something new that i can tinker with.