I hope you are traveling somewhere in the world now. This term from Christmas to New Year's Day is the good time to travel and figure out yourself on 2014. There are a lot of purpose to live. Therefore, some people work for their vacations, some people have breaks for their works. Usually, everyone is busy and doesn't have any chances to think about "lives."
If you have a little time at a cafe, try this:
Preparations:
Your Diary for 2014
A pen, or your computer(if you use an online scheduler)
Do This:
Imagine your life of 2025.
Write the purpose of your life.
Think what you need to do for it.
What you can do for 2014.
Put the small notes where always you can check.
This is a good way to figure out our lives. If your purpose is for travel, you may not need a good carrier, but need a lot of money... How to earn it? If your purpose is becoming CEO, what's your plan for 2014? Can you do anything special for it?
Well, this is a greeting. Some years ago, when I took some media classes in my college, I had a homework assignment of the motion graphic.
Motion Graphic Assignment (2010)
by Blogmaster
Please enjoy this, and have a little break. Make sure what you should do in 2014, and have a great 2014!
Some months ago, media informed about the wrong directions of Apple
Maps. It had some fatal mistakes, and some drivers who believe the
direction mistakenly got into the desert in Australia.
Without these kind of disturbing behaviors, people naturally can enjoy the
maps. For example, if you have Apple Maps, you can check "Horse Guard
Parade" in London, UK. I believe the photo is just before the Olympic
Games in 2012. It's under-construction. You can see the view from the
top of Everest on the map apps, and you can see the scenes of Manhattan
on them. You can enjoy seeing your old destinations and talk with people too.
Many people want to be out for
holidays, but they cannot always do. If they have families, they may
spend with them. However, if the person is alone without a partner?
It's
a news feed from "Time Magazine." It has a link to "Pornhub." It's a
blog page. It has a big map. It indicate how people spend time
with/without porn on special days. It's a little interesting.
If you are in the urban jungle, museums may be solutions for your holiday
plan. If you are in New York, there are a lot of museums near the
Central Park. If you are in London, you have some choices of parks such
as Hyde Park and St. James Park. You can stay with Themes river, and the
National Museum too.
For avoiding the dull travel, please figure out a few purposes for your small trips. Also I
recommend you to take some pictures, audio and video clips, and keep
them for your journals.
If you are busy outside everyday, you may use the "maps" such as Google Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps, and Nokia Maps(Here Maps) on your phone. Especially, urban explorers such as in New York, losing your ways means losing half a day of your work. However, you phones help you and find a way to get rid of because automatically they can track your locations, and precisely display on your phone.
What kind of information is used by the apps are:
Global Positioning System(GPS Data)
GPS is with the geosynchronous satellites. Originally, these were for military purposes on the coldwar era. They correctly tracked the location of ballistic missiles. After the coldwar ended in the end of 1990s, countries spread the use of the satellites to the commercial uses. Therefore, the information is very precise. This was mainly installed to the automotive navigation system for cars before. Now mostly every smartphone has it. WiFi ID/IP Addresses
If you use the Internet, you never fail to use with IP addresses. IP addresses indicate some important information: who the administrators/users, and where the locations are. When you establish the Internet connection, the information is provided for the network. WiFi ID is also the usable information that indicates your locations. When Google created the street maps, they collected these information with the photos, and this became a huge problem in countries. Now many apps collect these IDs when you use. Users mostly automatically provide these information.
Phone ID
Your phone ID is one of the blind points for detecting your locations. Your phones have some specific ID numbers. One of them is your phone number. When you call, your phone connects near the base station and establish the phone call between your phone and the system. Each base station has each location ID. It can calculate the distance between your location and the base station. Especially, if you are with 3G phones or newer, your phones can track multiple base stations. Therefore, your phone precisely indicate your locations with GPS.
For the reasons, if you are with your smartphones, you have not lost your ways in most of Ecumene where people can live. According to NORAD ( http://www.noradsanta.com/ ), they can track Santa Claus because of these systems.
"Trepak(Russian Dance)"
(From Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite)
Sochi Olympics comes soon. According to media, they had a lot of troubles for the torches, and also media indicates the bribery of high officials. The construction progresses also delayed, but finally, the games open on February 7, 2014. I checked about Sochi on the Internet, but it's difficult to find the information in English. However, using these map apps, we can travel around the resort town Sochi before the Olympic Games come.
