Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
— The Continental Congress, July 4, 1776

“The task of statesmanship has always been the re-definition of these rights in terms of a changing and growing social order.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt (Commonwealth Club Address, 1932)

“Roosevelt was wrong! The principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence are the principles of individual liberty. Our unalienable rights, given to us by God are given to us as individuals. Our rights do not come from society or the government, and they cannot be redefined by politicians. The nature of these rights carries with it the implication of individual responsibility, without which we surrender them.”
— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008

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New Feature...

Published Sat, Dec 9 2006 5:04 PM
Technorati Tags: Computers and Internet, Software Development

As most bloggers know, sitemeter collects more information than just how many hits a web site receives. It also records the IP address, the number of page views, the referring page and the exit page. It also geocodes the IP address where possible.

The geocoding information provided by sitemeter is rather interesting. It's usually the location of your ISP, which can be quite close to where you are, or it can be way, way off. Anyway the distribution of locations where people are coming from is pretty interesting data, and I've come up with a use for it.

I've exported my sitemeter log data and imported it into a "visits" table in my database. I've also written a widget that looks at your IP address when you hit the site and looks up the data from previous visits (if it's there). If sitemeter has recorded your country, city, and state, as well as your longitude and latitude, the widget will see if it can get a National Weather Service 5-day forecast for your location. If It can do that it will present you with a link to the forecast page.

Sitemeter doesn't keep track of my visits, but for me, the link looks like this...

Weather for Covington, Washington

If this is your first time visiting the site, you won't see a forecast link. If you've visited before but I haven't imported the data, you won't see a forecast link. If sitemeter can't get reasonable geocoding data you won't see a forecast link, and you won't see one if you're not from the United States.

That's not because I don't like foreign visitors. I think it's cool that people from other countries have read my site (some on a regular basis). It's just that the United States National Weather Service doesn't provide forecast data for locations outside the United States.

If you see the link, let me know what you think.

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Perri Nelson responded with:

By the way, if you're viewing the forecast, the location name may not match what you expect to see. That's due to a quirk in the TerraServer location name service.
If you click on the Location name, I'll show you a TerraServer image of the location, centered on the latitude and longitude from the sitemeter visit data. Sometimes it'll be urban areas aerial photography, sometimes it'll be older black-and-white areal photography, and sometimes it's just a map.
Give it a try.

beth responded with:

That's a pretty cool widget - and pretty scary - I'm still amazed at how hard it is to be anonymous on the internet :) I have a friend who an IT person and he says that if he wants in someone's computer he can get into the computer no matter what they do! I believe him.

Still - that's cool :)

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