K-Mart was having a sale – so I picked up a coupld of DVD’s. Firstly there is THE MISSION which won the Acadamy Award in 1985 for best cinematography, and then THE NET with Santra Bulloch.

THE MISSION is a movie that I have not seen for many years. The music is by the amazing Ennio Morricone and describes the story of a Jesuit mission in a jungle, and the story of what happens when Spain and Portugal sign a treaty which signs the death knell for the mission. It is truely an amazing picture from what I can remember of it.

THE NET is a more modern tale of identity theft. In this case the movie is not the greatest ever, but for under $9 it does fill a hole in my DVD collection. Also the Audio Commentry might me amusing.

Reverse GeoCoding

I have been playing with reverse geocoding this afternoon. Basically this is taking a position of a vehicle and working out what town, city, road etc is closest to the vehicle. It is an interesting exercise, and there are some cute things you can do with this information. A friend told me it was easy in a meeting, and then admitted that it was not quite as simple as it sounded. So there was my challenge – do this, and make it as fast as possible. I think I have done both fairly well.

I have made a few assumptions that would make Christopher Columbus unhappy and make me a member of the ‘Flat Earth Society’, but it seems to actually work fairly well. It may not work so well when you want to work out if a vehicle is closer to a town 1000 km to the NorthEast or one 1000km to the SouthWest, if the towns are somewhat closer the results are fairly accurate whilst being faast to calculate.

Music:

Red Hot Chilli Peppers with Californication. For some reason the RHCP’s gave me the idea that they were really a heavy metal band from their name, until I started listening to their music. But they are quieter, and the words are easier to understand – usually a good thing with music. I think my favourite song of theirs is ‘The Zephyr Song’.