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Chris Peitschmann has posted an exelent blog on calculating the distance between two geocodes using javascript.

http://pietschsoft.com/Blog/Post.aspx?PostID=1452

The Ninija

Well, the un-imaginable has happened to me (or my workstation for that matter) very late on Saturday morning (about 3am).

While testing a new web application, I noticed IE was playing up, so I fired up FireFox and tried again - to the same result.

My computer kept lagging and crashing all browsers, then the apps started to crash until....................

complete C: drive failure!

I have spend the best part of 2 days now installing a new SATA drive, reconfiguring software and recovering data from the dead disk.

Sometimes a I really hate computers which reminds me of a classic geek saying:

"To err is human, but to really f*%k things up you need a computer"

I have finally got most of my software back and running, but I now need to recover my brain as i have had nearly no sleep for 2 days and now my head feels like it is going to explode!

The Ninja - near defeated in battle.

I was just thinking about what drives me while coding, coffee? - no.

The way/pace of my coding is determined by what music I am listening to. Today I realised that the best music IMHO is techno, and banging techno at that!

Repetitive, yes, but so is coding

With every key stroke theres a kick drum, and it sends me into a coding trance making me oblivious to any distractions and my good ladies ranting about "are you nearly finished?", "what time do you think you will finish?".

Techno FM, www.techno.fm, is my all time favourite radio station for my programming requirements. kind of an unwritten rule of my coding practices.

To enhance the experience i recommend Sennheiser HD25 headphones, excellent for bass, djing and ignoring your Mrs

What is your favourite music for coding?

Answers on a post card!

The Ninja

I have just had the requirement to calculate the distance between 2 locations for a client project. At first I was going down the route of rolling my own within the C# domain model and then I found this amazing piece of code in the form of an SQL function (sql server 2000/20005) courtesy of Troy DeMonbreun