From Abbotsford Air Show 2006

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This is a test to see if I can embed pictures using Picassa web albums in my posts, and apparently it works.

- Mike

In the game it is World War III (just like the book) and you play a United States Submarine captain tasked with stopping the Russian Navy. You can be a captain in different classes of submarines, such as the Los Angeles class, the Permit Class, etc.

I only played it briefly last night and got stuck at one of the screens because I did not know which keyboard commands.

The graphics of the game are horrible but then again the game was published in 1989 and alot has changed over the years.

Enjoy!

Rank	Collar	Sleeve	Pay Grade	Abbreviation	Enlisted/Officer
Seaman Recruit	None	None	E-1	SR	Enlisted
Seaman Apprentice	None		E-2	SA	Enlisted
Seaman	None		E-3	SN	Enlisted
Petty Officer Third Class	None		E-4	PO3	Enlisted
Petty Officer Second Class	None		E-5	PO2	Enlisted
Petty Officer First Class	None		E-6	PO1	Enlisted
Chief Petty Officer			E-7	CPO	Enlisted
Senior Chief Petty Officer			E-8	SCPO	Enlisted
Master Chief Petty Officer			E-9	MCPO	Enlisted
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy			E-9	MCPON	Enlisted
Chief Warrant Officer			W-2	CWO2	Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer			W-3	CWO3	Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer			W-4	CWO4	Warrant Officer
Chief Warrant Officer			W-5	CWO5	Warrant Officer
Ensign			O-1	ENS	Officer
Lieutenant Junior Grade			O-2	LTJG	Officer
Lieutenant			O-3	LT	Officer
Lieutenant Commander			O-4	LDCR	Officer
Commander			O-5	CDR	Officer
Captain			O-6	CAPT	Officer
Rear Admiral (lower half)			O-7	RDML	Officer
Rear Admiral (upper half)			O-8	RADM	Officer
Vice Admiral			O-9	VADM	Officer
Admiral			O-10	ADM	Officer
Fleet Admiral (for War time only)			Special	FADM	Officer

Rank Insignia and descriptions are from the following two wikipedia pages: Enlisted – Officers

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Marshal of the Soviet Union (full uniform)
From: RussianLegacy.com

You can find the link here: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/3707

Pretty cool.

Mike.

Luckily for me there are a lot of resources available for Google Maps. The most help I got was from this website: http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm, to make the animation work I also added the epolys.js javascript to my javascript file, the epolys.js was written by Mike Williams who is the web master at http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm

I want the animation on here because throughout the book there are some interesting things that can be animated (I think).

If you want to have a look you can find it at this location and then select “chapter 2″.

enjoy,

Mike.

Rank/Title	Insignia	Pay Grade	Abbreviation	Enlisted/Officer
Airman Basic	No Insignia	E-1	AB	Enlisted
Airman		E-2	Amn	Enlisted
Airman First Class		E-3	A1C	Enlisted
Senior Airman		E-4	SrA	Enlisted
Staff Sergeant		E-5	SSgt	Enlisted
Technical Sergeant		E-6	TSgt	Enlisted
Master Sergeant		E-7	MSgt	Enlisted
Master Sergeant		E-7	MSgt (A diamond on the insignia indicates special duty held by a senior enlisted member of a military unit)	Enlisted
Senior Master Sergeant		E-8	SMSgt	Enlisted
Senior Master Sergeant		E-8	SMSgt (Same as Master Sergeant, A diamond on the insignia indicates special duty held by a senior enlisted member of a military unit )	Enlisted
Chief Master Sergeant		E-9	CMSgt	Enlisted
Chief Master Sergeant		E-9	CMSgt (Same as Master Sergeant, A diamond on the insignia indicates special duty held by a senior enlisted member of a military unit )	Enlisted
Command Chief Master Sergeant		E-9	CCM	Enlisted
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force		E-9	CMSAF	Enlisted
Second Lieutenant		O-1	2d Lt	Officer
First Lieutenant		O-2	1st Lt	Officer
Captain		O-3	Capt	Officer
Major		O-4	Maj	Officer
Lieutenant Colonel		O-5	Lt Col	Officer
Colonel		O-6	Col	Officer
Brigadier General		O-7	Brig Gen	Officer
Major General		O-8	Maj Gen	Officer
Lieutenant General		O-9	Lt Gen	Officer
General		O-10	Gen	Officer
General of the Air Force		n/a	Gen USAF (This is a Honorary rank)	Officer

Rank Insignia and descriptions are from the following two wikipedia pages: Enlisted – Officers

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You are the proud owner of a new iPod Touch or iPhone and downloaded an audio book from Audible.com to listen too. Lets say you downloaded a fictional novel and the story talks about fighter pilots and their planes.

So you are happily listening along and the story talks about an F-14 fighter plane taking off from an aircraft carrier, after the sentence ends the audio player pauses. You look at the screen of your audio player and there is a button that indicates a video is available, you press the button. After you press the button the audio player displays a movie of an F-14 fighter plane taking off from, you guessed it, an aircraft carrier.

How cool would that be?

Of course if you do not press the button the story will just continue for your listening pleasures.Can you imagine if this technology was added to a download of Dan Brown’s

the Da Vinci Code

You would be able to see a clear picture of the Mona Lisa or the last supper, track the path the two main characters travel on Google maps, reference material from the Knights Templar, etc.It is almost like an interactive game.. or interactive TV…

just some ideas…

- mike

Cool? I think so…

- Mike