Andy Arthur.

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Technology Fodder.

While I know a little bit of code, and how to blog, I don't own a lot of technology besides my portable radio and my laptop. My thoughts on a society that is overly obsessed with technology but ignores the natural world that sustains us all.

Internet.

Stealing Today. What does it mean to steal in our digital age? [March 28, 2008]

The 38% Without High Speed Internet. Disagreeing with the notion that everyone needs internet access at home. [February 23, 2010]

Why WikiLeaks Ain't Going Away. The reality is modern technology will make almost impossible to stop people who want to leak from leaking. [December 19, 2010]

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Software.

A Script to Make Pretty Political Google Maps. Using this script you can easily convert over ERSI Shapefiles with voting percents to Google Maps. [February 9, 2012]

Script I Wrote for Generating Contours. Just a simple PHP script using gdal_contour and ogr2ogr I wrote my convience. [January 17, 2012]

Tutorial: Making Maps of Round Lake Wilderness in QGIS. A step-by-step guide in creating quality outdoors maps using QGIS. [October 6, 2011]

What's the Right Way to Look at New York? A comparison of NY State Maps projected in Normal Mercator and Universal Transverse Mercator. [July 2, 2011]

Why I Like Mapping. A map can teach one much about a piece of land. [January 31, 2012]

Why I've Gotten Away from Using NYSDOT Topographic Maps. They don't scale well, have a lot unneeded information and clutter on them. [December 28, 2011]

Tech Valley.

Humans at the End of the Day. Despite our technological abilities, we must respect god and the planet we live on. [March 22, 2006]

What's Scarier Then Hydrofracking: Tech Valley. High-tech development will mean destruction of the character and beauty of entire Hudson Valley. [June 9, 2010]

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Television.

The Poor Door-to-Door Cable Salesman. He came to my door trying to sell cable and I turned him down. [January 14, 2010]

“The policy of the state shall be to conserve and protect its natural resources and scenic beauty and encourage the development and improvement of its agricultural lands for the production of food and other agricultural products.”
Article 14, Section 4 NY State Constitution