Technology In The Gap

When I first got my gTablet I downloaded a whole bunch of apps.  I grabbed free apps from the Marketplace.  Amazon gives away a free app every day from its Marketplace.  I mean, I was an app downloading maniac.

And yet now, I’m more subdued.  I don’t always remember to bring it to work, and even when I do there are days that it doesn’t come out of its case!

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Yesterday at work a coworker who is working with some map APIs and census data found an interesting anomaly.  It turns out that if your GPS location is on the Tappan Zee Bridge you don’t have a zip code.  This is important if you’re trying to give physical address locations to GPS coordinates.

While he went off to figure out what he was going to do with this discovery, I went on my merry way, not thinking about it until later that night—while sleeping.

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