Archive for June, 2008

Getting Your KML files to Open in Google Earth

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

A few weeks ago I posted a few neat things you can do with geo-data for your website and delved into adding KML geo files to your website. Well, I noticed one small problem. When adding a link to a KML file, on a web-page, when you click that link, the KML file just opens in the browser as any old un-styled XML file.

I was wanting these to automatically open up in Google Earth so I can watch the globe spin round and fly into the spot specified on the map. No such luck.

But I found the solution(s). One complicated, one easy.

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My Cool Ass CB750 Cafe Racer

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

So, this post is a lil bit off topic here (way off) but felt like posting it anyways.

I picked up my first motorcycle recently and its really f***ing cool. It’s a 1980 Honda CB750 and its getting chopped and customized into a cafe racer.

I found the bike listed locally on craigslist.org and after doing some research online I came across this cb750 cafe racer website. After seeing those bikes and digging more into the cafe style of bikes I was sold on getting this Honda. Sent some emails to Carpy (Steve Carpenter) at cb750cafe.com and been buying some parts from him. Great guy who is really passionate about building cool cafe racers.

Funny him being a Brit and all while the original cafe style evolved in Britain primarily on British bikes like Nortan’s but he tends to stick with the older SOHC Honda’s. Fitting I guess because it was the cb750’s that brought the English bike industry to its knee’s in the late 60’s early 70’s. Norton went bankrupt. Ouch.

So without further adieu, here is the bike (these are updated photos since additional modifications to the bike in 2010 - older pics below);