Spent the weekend in Salem, IL with my in-laws and the family. It was a pleasant trip with a very uneventful schedule. Ran Sunday morning and when I got back to Springfield I downloaded my run from the Garmin Forerunner 205 to the laptop and that is picture that detailed my jog. Find anything interesting about that picture?
See, in most of my maps the GPS shows me running on streets. This one just appears to be an open void. Like I ran in space, or in the Tron movie with no streets to run on. Which is odd, since I ran 4 miles on paved roads. I guess Salem, IL doesn't get the same GPS coverage that other areas get. Even Shelbyville, TN gets roads in the sat coverage.
Also found only one other person on Twitter while doing a "nearby" search via Tweetie on the iPhone. What I did find was that my Sprint Wireless connection while only working at 10% connection was pretty darn fast. I guess not having a bunch of other people on in the area makes the connection smoother.
Here's the ironic part. Salem is one of the few places in the United States to have wireless broadband pumping signals to television, phone, and internet. The speed at which 8,000 people could get online is staggering, but the apparent lack of interest is what puzzles me.
(P.S. I dislike the new editor for Typepad)
