Live website in PowerPoint

Posted on 12/01/2012 by leukvoorj

I was wondering if it is possible to show a website in PowerPoint 2010. This turned out to be possible. I found a nice explanation on Howtogeek.

The only problem was that although I have IE9, the above described LiveWeb plugin for PowerPoint 2010 somehow used an older version of IE. I found a solution for this problem here by changing the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION]
“POWERPNT.EXE”=dword:0000270f

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THEMIS VIS footprint shapefiles

Posted on 12/01/2012 by leukvoorj

As there are no THEMIS VIS footprint shapefiles available on the Mars Orbital Data Explorer I made them myself. They can be downloaded from here.

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HiRISE: Dunes on Mars

Posted on 09/01/2012 by leukvoorj

I just saw the following HiRISE image while browing through my ArcGIS Mars database:
dunes
It made me wonder why these dunes only form at the edge of the plateau…

When zoomed in the dunes also show a strange pattern:
pattern
Is this water ice?

The image can be viewed by downloading HiView and pointing it to this URL.

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Open GIS data ;-)

Posted on 09/01/2012 by leukvoorj

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Earth Days

Posted on 05/01/2012 by leukvoorj

Watch Earth Days on PBS. See more from American Experience.

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The value of nature

Posted on 09/12/2011 by leukvoorj

“Because ecosystem services are not fully ‘captured’ in commercial markets or adequately quantified in terms comparable with economic services and manufactured capital, they are often given too little weight in policy decisions. This neglect may ultimately compromise the sustainability of humans in the biosphere. The economies of the Earth would grind to a halt without the services of ecological life-support systems, so in one sense their total value to the economy is infinite.” Costanza et al. (1997)

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HiView and ArcGIS 10

Posted on 06/12/2011 by leukvoorj

The people from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just released their own software for viewing the images: HiView. HiView can be easily used within ArcGIS 10. You need to follow these steps:

  1. Download the HiRISE footprints shapefile here. The shapefile is an updated version of the one you can download from the Mars Orbital Data Explorer. My version has an extra column called JPIPURL.
  2. Add the shapefile to ArcMap.
  3. Go to Layer Properties > Display. Select ‘Support Hyperlinks using field’. Select Script and click on Edit. Add the following script:
    Function OpenLink ( [JPIPURL] )
      Dim pathHiView
      Dim argHiView
      Dim objShell
      pathHiView = “C:\Program Files\HiView\HiView.exe”
      argHiView =  “-Image ” & [JPIPURL]
      Set objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”)
      objShell.ShellExecute pathHiView, argHiView, “”, “open”, 1
    End Function
  4. In ArcGIS click on the Hyperlink button (the lightning icon) and select a footprint.
  5. HiView opens and the selected HiRISE image is loaded.

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Mars/Moon globe for Google Earth on Android

Posted on 02/12/2011 by leukvoorj

Settings > Databases > Add: http://khmdb.google.com/?db=mars OR moon

GEfA1

GEfA2

GEfA3

GEfA4

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Begraafplaats blijkt chemisch afval dump

Posted on 22/11/2011 by leukvoorj

RIJSWIJK – De begraafplaats ‘Uit den Treuren’ te Rijswijk blijkt al 3 jaar lang een dump van chemisch afval te zijn. Dit stelt wethouder Jan Vervliet. De hoeveelheid lood, koper en zink in de grond blijkt namelijk na uitgebreid onderzoek veel hoger dan toegestaan. De begraafplaats is tot nader order gesloten.

Na een reeks van begraafplaatssluitingen blijkt ook hier het naleven van de nieuwe en strengere Europese milieu wetgeving de oorzaak. “Deze nieuwe wetgeving maakt het volstrekt onmogelijk om nog mensen te begraven”, aldus begrafeniskenner Marten Kleef.

Dat de nieuwe wetgeving ook innovatie kan opleveren blijkt uit het succes van BodyMining. BodyMining, het nieuwste alternatief voor begraven, is een uitvaartmethode waar alle economisch belangrijke grondstoffen uit het lichaam gewonnen worden. De nabestaanden hebben recht op een percentage van de opbrengst.

De Gemeente Rijswijk verwacht dat volgende maand de lood prijs genoeg gestegen is zodat begonnen kan worden met de schoonmaak.

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My October Youtube list

Posted on 15/11/2011 by leukvoorj

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Favourite Youtubes of September

Posted on 07/10/2011 by leukvoorj

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Our Fourier Transform

Posted on 09/09/2011 by leukvoorj

“All things are impermanent”, is a Buddhist saying which I find very true personally. You will find sunshine after rain, happiness after depression. But also rain after sunshine and depression after happiness. The manically depressed among us seem to be addicted to this loop and feel they cannot escape. I guess we all have this feeling of being under the control of our emotions some time. The Buddhist saying helps to see the bigger picture during moments of sadness. It will pass, as will happiness. So live now, now is all we have. Emotions are like sine waves, some have a long period but a small amplitude. Others are the opposite. The sum of all these emotional sine waves over the span of a lifetime makes me think of a fourier transform. Do we have any control over this transform? Can we transform ourselves?

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TED talk: Cheetahs vs. Hippos

Posted on 08/09/2011 by leukvoorj

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August 2011 youtube collection

Posted on 27/08/2011 by leukvoorj

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wk.pe could be a nice Wikipedia URL shortener

Posted on 18/08/2011 by leukvoorj

Why not? ;)

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