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Check out the Google Help Cheat Sheet which will help you improve the quality of your queries.

MelissaData has a good free Phone Lookup service which may not tell you who called, but will get down to the county.

They also have a few other lookups that may be of interest, like the Geocoder for finding the geocode of a zip code, or the IPlocation which will provide the location of someone based on their IP address.

Carmel Sunset 2

Originally uploaded by erik jaeger.

taken on my trip to Northern Cali in the summer of 2003

Traffic Map - a map that displays the traffic in your city which is continuously updated with the latest traffic info.

Gasoline Prices - Find the Cheapest Gas in your area.

House/Apartment listings - HousingMaps, which places Craigslist listings on a map.

Pictures taken by zipcode - Geobloggers combines google maps and flickr to show which pictures were taken where. (Pics need to be tagged with geocodes)

Rides available in your area - Google Ride Finder is a view of available taxis, limousines and shuttles in your area. Data is updated every 5 minutes

Sexual Predators in Florida - FloridaSexualPredator.com maps where sexual offenders and predators live.

This to That is a site which will tell you the right type of glue that you need to put objects back together. For example, if the toe on your sneaker is pulling away from the leather, then you enter Rubber to Leather.

Coney Island Fisherman

Originally uploaded by erik jaeger.

Last summer I went to Coney Island with a bunch of friends. I was surprised to see a fisherman on the pier…… he didn’t catch anything when I was there.

penta

Originally uploaded by erik jaeger.

The people at Google and google fans are doing some cool things with maps. It is basically a web based map tool (a la mapquest) with a nice interface. You can click the sattelite button to get an up close image of the location like this picture of the pentagon

Someone also created a great application for the tool by combining it with Craigslist house/apartment listings… called HousingMaps, which places listings on a map.

Yay!

boston citgo b&w

Originally uploaded by erik jaeger.

I took this photo back in ‘99 when I worked in Cambridge. I recently did some work up near Boston, and this sign always reminds me of BU.

Frigate Beach

Originally uploaded by erik jaeger.

On my last day in St. Kitts I took this shot on the beach in front of the Marriott.

Welcome to erikjaeger.com. I am using Wordpress to publish and Flickr to host pictures. I chose Wordpress because it’s free, supports web standards, has categories, integrates with Flickr, and has a large userbase that create plugins. Flickr is free photo sharing site with lots of cool features like tagging, organizing comments, hosting multiple picture sizes, and easy posting to a blog. Luckily my brother hooked me up with free hosting.

If I wanted to create a blog that’s hosted for free, I’d go with blogger