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Google Earth Now Supports Hiking Trails

Glenn Welker — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:15:24 +0000

Google has partnered with Trimble Outdoors to gain access to GPS based hiking data. More partnerships with Backpacker, Bicycling and Mountain Bike magazines provide you with ample information to plan your next hike. Even better, is that you can export the hike to your GPS based phone when you are ready to take off.

Go get the new Google Earth and plan a hike today.

Blog plans

Glenn Welker — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:00:20 +0000

I feel like our little blog is floundering so… I decided to add a little more structure. I plan on posting based on categories in the future. My hope is that this will help me to post more useful information on a regular basis. These posts are generally going to be outside of the normal family notes. Just my ramblings.

Monday: Projects. I will post details on any of my little projects. You will likely find everything from home improvement ideas to kids crafts.

Wednesday: Geek speek. I will discuss software and technology.

Friday: Everything else. Cooking, opinions and anything else that doesn’t fit into a neat little category.

Family notes will be posted anytime that we have time.

I also am going to start making notes on my garden, sort of a daily journal. Due to the fact that I assume that this will bore everyone to tears, the posts will not appear on the front page of the blog. I will add a new menu item at the top that will access all of the garden notes.

Big news for Tour de Force and MRH Technology Group

Glenn Welker — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:24 +0000

I am so excited to see that MRH Technology Group, the creator of Tour de Force has updated their web site. The new web site details new versions of the software and even states that version 4.0 is coming in the second quarter of this year.

This is so exciting to me. The old web site had not posted a news story since 2006, shortly before I left the company. I used to work for MRH Technology Group and was the original developer of the product before it was even coined “Tour de Force”. After Matt Hartman asked if I was interested in returning to work last year, I assumed that they were actively expanding but this is fantastic news indeed. With Mr. Hausman leading development now and a difference in our philosophies of the future direction of the product I decided to pass on returning to work for MRH Technology Group. After all being a stay at home dad is much more rewarding.

At any rate, I am very excited to see that the company is doing so well. With some loose ends still waiting to be tied up with my old employer, I am excited to see that they have moved forward. I look forward to being able to finalize my past relationship with them in the very near future.