On Jan. 20, 2009, at 11:19 a.m. (EST), GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, took a color image over Washington D.C. The image shows the monuments along the National Mall and masses of people gathered between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.

I, like many people in the United States, had to work yesterday during the swearing in of Barak Obama. Despite permission from on high, or at least from the head of Human Resources, employees were given permission to use their work PC’s to tune in and watch the event, it just didn’t happen. I ended up listening instead of watching.

This is a nice effort on the part of folks at Microsoft and Novell. They managed to roll out a Silverlight/Moonlight player for Linux and PowerPC Macs. The official streaming feed of Barak Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Committee will be using Silverlight 2.

The MLB video system will be working tomorrow, January 20th, to stream a morning long program of footage from prior inaugurations beginning Tuesday morning at 9:00am EST. I love seeing expensive infrastructure put to good use.