Big brother is watching

For a long time, I would often look at google maps to see if their satellite imagery had been updated to show any progress on our rooftop deck. Sadly, it always shows the same and looks like this:



Well, we were checking the weather the other day to see how many layers of clothing would be needed to work on the deck that day. I saw a new feature of weather.com that had radar maps. As something new, I just had to check it out. I clicked and found that it's using Microsoft's Virtual Earth technology. Anytime something uses satellites for images, I just have to check out our place. To my delight, their images are more updated than google's!

Check this out:



We've finally made our mark! Now this photo shows only the framing of the i-beams of our deck. Judging by flickr, this places this photo around February of 2006. So it's pretty old, but it's very exciting to see that our changes can be seen. :)

We'll probably just have to wait another couple of years to see the completed project! Of course we'll probably be in a new place by then, but oh well. . . .