Recently, my satellite connection slowed to a crawl (no surprise there). At the time, I was trying to look up a domain name at GoDaddy. Now, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but lately GoDaddy’s site loads EXTREMELY SLOW. That, coupled with my already slow Internet connection, made... 

As a kid, I used to love looking at maps. I’d sneak them out of the kitchen junk drawer, and take them to my room to look at and imagine magical journeys. In college, for a short time, I had a student job on campus creating maps of the local wetlands, and I thought I was the coolest geek around....