San Diego was the first site settled by Europeans on the West Coast of the United States and is now the 8th largest city, with a population around 1.3 million. There is a lot of news, events and activites and a wide variety of news sources reporting on them. Can LLMs help to summarize all of this content and provide an overview what has happened and is happening around the city? This project utilizes Google's Gemini models, and their features, to process San Diego news feeds for food and arts articles, and create a map them.

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The Google Foobar Challenge is a series extremely interesting and fun coding problems. Lots has been written about the individual levels and problems. It seems to be a recruiting tool but there is no statement from Google about the Challenge and it's purpose. It it very well designed and covers a wide range of computer science tops. Earlier this year I received an invitation and have been slowly working through the levels. If you get an invite take it!

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Azure offers a way to link virtual networks called Virtual Network Peering. These links utilize Microsft's backbone infrastructure. Traffic passing through a virtual network peer should therefore be faster than traffic on the Internet in general. But how fast? A test was set up attempting to measure the speed improvement between two locations using virtual network peering.

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TL;DR: This bash script creates a desktop GIS AppVM Qube and a server AppVM Qube within QubeOS. All software is installed into a single TemplateVM. The software includes QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer and other utilities. Firewall/iptables rules are setup to enable the desktop Qube to reach to server Qube. This script will work with both Debian and Fedora TemplateVMs.

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