Diary of Scott Morris

The rain last night made for a nice cool morning.

Yesterday I saw on the radar and in person that the west side of town was getting pounded by rain. The sky was clear where I was riding in the foothills, but very dark out by the Tucson Mountains.

This morning, a rareity: a …. [Continue reading]

It’s raining, almost hard.

Last year at this time Coronado National Forest closed to the public due to extreme fire danger. This year, things are looking much better.

We completed our first run backpacking trip in the Catalina’s. Right before we left, Terraserver changed its address. All old versions of TopoFusion will no longer download …. [Continue reading]

We are nearing the completion of our beta testing phase. The next full release will happen soon. Then we’re going to have to promote it in one way or another. My hatred for advertising and commercialism makes this very difficult for me. But we have simply worked too hard on TopoFusion to not get more …. [Continue reading]

I’m working on more image (map) processing stuff. I’ve added brightness and contrast adjustment. Plus, a new take on overlaying topo on aerials. Combining the images like that leads to some cool and weird looking maps. The topo lines are coming out nicely, though.

All this stuff will only be available in “combo” mode. You …. [Continue reading]

We’re starting to wrap up the beta and hopefully will be due for a full release soon. Many of the new features are very exciting.

In the meantime I have wrapped up school and had family visit. Backtracking…

5/7/03 – Last day of classes. They will be mailing my MS degree this summer. But I …. [Continue reading]

It’s time to begin again, again.

I just went out for a short ride and my knee feels like it did two weeks ago. Two days ago I was sitting at this desk when I spun clockwise on my chair, whacking my knee in the process. Of course, it was the same knee and in …. [Continue reading]