The Starbucks Challenge has a better map! This comes courtesy of Robert, aka Groby, super-programmer, game guru and author of Groby Unplugged.

In an amazing feat of technical prowess, Groby got the Starbucks Challenge del.icio.us tags to feed into a Google map!

We’re still, however, working out some kinks — due mainly to my laziness, aka hangovers. If you excitedly clicked over to the map to discover your challenge isn’t showing up, this is cuz you:

1. Challenged in October. To put the challenge on the map, I have to tag it with the store ID number, which is kinda a long process for one lil blogger (Al of City Hippy’s a busy dad as of Wednesday, of a brand spankin’ new Mini Hippy!). So November challenges are tagged, while October challenges will get tagged in the next week.
2. Didn’t give me enough info about which store you challenged. Unless you’re one of the few people who only have 1 Starbucks in town, I need cross streets, addresses, or even the store ID number itself.
3. Challenged a store that’s already been challenged, or a store that got rechallenged. As of now, we can only have one tag per store, though Groby’s working on that.
4. Challenged a store outside the US that Starbucks doesn’t provide driving directions for on its website. For technical reasons way over my head but not over Groby’s head, driving directions are necessary for mapping. To fix this, we need to find a service that converts non-US addresses into geolocations. Drop us any words of advice.

And check out the map!

Groby and I also hard at work at our NaNoWriMo projects. I’m proud to say that as of today, I’ve written a whopping 732 words. I can still make it — Just need to write 4926.8 words a day from now till the end of the month –

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