I purchased a 19" Samsung 930B monitor tonight just before leaving for church.  I had just enough time to plug it in.  I tried one setting in the display properties to try to get it to come on, but no luck and I was out of time.  When I got back home, I found that it had sorted itself out, and both monitors were on.  All I had to do was swap the primary and secondary monitors so that the new, bigger monitor would be the primary.  I'm really going to enjoy the additional desktop space, but I think the most useful thing for is going to be the fact that I'll be able to use one screen for RDP (remoting into my work machine) and the other for my local machine.  Pretty exciting stuff.

BTW, I signed the contracts for showtimemaps.com last week, so real-time data should be available within days!

http://www.showtimemaps.com/ has really been coming along.  If you haven't checked it out yet, go for it.  You'll notice that there's a link just below the header that says "Latest Updates/Submit Comment".  That will take you to a blog I set up just for comments this project.  Please go there and provide feedback.  Also, now's the time to start showing the site to friends and colleagues that might think it's cool.  I'm hoping to have live movie data with links to actually purchasing tickets real soon!

I'm working on my scripts to clean and convert my movie data into what I need for showtimemaps.com.  I cleared a huge hurdle in geocoding today.  Hopefully, I'll have it pretty dang clean by the end of this week.  Then, hopefully, the next week, I'll add some cool stuff to the interface.  Once I start working on that, I'll start posting the link and soliciting more feedback from you guys.

Well, I didn't get much done on my movie maps thing this week, but that's mostly because I was busy doing other stuff.  Jamie and I were in Austin for a day, because my work sent me to an AJAX conference.  Unfortunately, the conference didn't answer all of my questions, but it did at least let me know that I'm not too far behind in learning how to use it.  Fortunately, we got to hang with some friends a bit at dinner.

The night we got back from Austin, the Baylor telecom alumni party was at The Spanish Kitchen.  As we were walking in, Jimmy Johnson, Howie Long, and Terry Bradshaw were walking out.  Then, yesterday, we went to a restaurant in Hollywood named 'eat' for Mother's Day/Jamie's birthday.  While we ate, we saw Zach Braff and Mandy Moore as they made their way past the hostess.  So, two solid celebrity sightings this week.  Enjoy!

Today, I registered showtimemaps.com, cinemapper.com, and mapthemovie.com.  Hopefully, I'll be getting some sample data from my new data source tomorrow.  If I do, I'll try to get everything adjusted and up at the new domain name(s) within a week.  I'm aiming to have my first set of features ready to go with live data (for the LA market) by June 1st, though I may try to get it done earlier, in time for the Da Vinci Code release.

Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions.  Between those posted in the comments, in emails, and in discussion with friends, I easily had 50 to choose from.

How about cinemapper.com?

I talked with my movie data source, and it looks like it's going to be feasible to build my movie maps deal with some better data.  So, now I need your help deciding on a domain name.  Here are some names that are available:

showtimemaps.com
movietimemaps.com
movietimemap.com
cinemamap.com

Unfortunately, moviemap.com and moviemaps.com are already taken.  Let me know what you think of these, and please suggest new ones!

I've got some more ideas for my movie mapper, but I'm waiting until I have a conversation with a better movie data source, before I put more time into it.

I've started jogging again.  I feel like it's safe to say that now that I've managed to jog three times in one week.  My first goal is to get to where I can make it 3 miles in 30 minutes.  I made it 2.51 miles today in the 30 minutes.  So, it's a pretty realistic, short-term goal.  I'm not sure what I'll shoot for after that.

I've actually had some stuff to blog about lately, but my blog was experiencing some technical difficulties.  I have now fully transferred this site over to ASP.NET 2.0.  Not important to most of you.

Not to be outdone by Mark's latest gadget, I've been working on a "mashup" of my own.  Mine gets theater and movie show time data for your zip code, converts the theater addresses to coordinates, and then maps them all using Virtual Earth.  It's still in its infancy with many more features to come (hopefully).

Here it is:  http://www.flatlandmedia.com/atlas/ShowTimeMaps.aspx  (only works completely in Internet Explorer)

UPDATE:  Everything that works in IE now also works in Firefox (on a PC).  I made the popups work better, and there's a nicer close link on it now, too.  Also, zooming no longer removes the pushpins.