Geocoder will convert any U.S. address into its longitude and lattitude. Course, another, graphical way to do this is to locate the address on Google Maps and find the link on the page labelled “Link to this page”. Contained in that URL is your longitude and lattitude with the lattitude and longitude coming after “ll=” in the URL. They’re comma separated. First is lattitude and next is longitude. You may have to magnify the map or click elsewhere on the map to get the link URL to contain the coordinates.

VMWare has released VMware Server, a free VM environment that runs on Windows or Linux. If differs from VMware Player in that you can create VMs as opposed to just running them. Download from this link. Pre-configured virtual machines complete with a configured operating system (aka “appliances”) are available here including the most recent Ubuntu (from this link) and CentOS (from this link on LinuxTracker.org) as a torrent.

Just came across AirSet and I like it! It’s a shared calendar and contact application. Maybe there are a lot of them out there that compare favorably to this but I’m not aware of them. There are a couple of nice things:

1) it’s calendar and contacts
2) you can set up multiple groups and have calendars for each of them
3) you’ve got a personal calendar which can show all of the appts from all of the groups
4) you can control what shows up
5) updates you make, regardless of whether it’s on your cell phone or the web site, show up immediately in everyone’s view

Update 6/12/2006: Just spoke with my brother and he told me about Planzo. Doesn’t look like it does phone but I haven’t really checked it out yet. GW Bush has a Planzo calendar here and so does Condi so it looks like they have a sense of humor.

Even with the SPamLookup MT plug-in, I got over 200 comment SPAM in the past 2 days. Until I put up some new content, I’m turning off comments. Email me if you want to comment.