I’ve been doing a lot of programming lately, and in a multitude of different languages. For the most part, these are pretty “decent” languages: C, Python, Ruby, etc. However, none of the languages really makes me happy.

As a follow-up to my previous post, I have found two ways of finding the distance between two cities in the US. One is slow and more correct, one is less slow and less correct.

Recently, I was thinking to myself, “Where do all of these wonderful sites on the web get information to map cities, towns, and US ZIP codes to actual locations?” I then though, “How much do they pay?” In reality, I don’t know the answer, though there seem to be many companies you can pay for the information.

I successfully moved this site from a Wordpress blog to scanty, with some modifications.