http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress HA HA I'M USING THE ADVERTNET Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:37:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a conservation management and cultural tourism plan for Glenrock Lagoon online at http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ that is a wealth of information about all the ~150 historical artifacts in the area! ...including GPS location details! After a bit of poking at python, I got the UTM information uploaded to a GPS, and a GPX ... http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/288 ...was due to a MySQL upgrade problem, which, when I actually got around to looking at it, was a single-character configuration edit to fix. :-/ Man, blogging is so 2004 these days... http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/287 Update 2008-11-05: http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/286 Be warned that I'll likely be posting lots of photos in future of my new scooter! :-)Update 2008-10-24: Completed the rider training, and trotted over to Broadmeadow to get a few things, and was offered delivery a day early. :-) http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/285 Advicedog generator: http://www.neosoft.se/dev/advicedog/ http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/284 I'd bought a full body ZAGG "Invisible Shield" to go with the OpenMoko Neo... and got something that wasn't usable. Besides from all the small parts that need to be held in place with the palm of your hand while they set, the show-stopper is the larger parts were unusably ... http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/283 The last photo... is naughty. http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/282 http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/281 Ugh. Ever since I got the Neo, I've been spending my spare spare time trying to write software for it in Python, as its been the best option for knocking-up quick&dirty concepts with the numerous frameworks/modules provided. While still a novice with the programming language, I've written less-than-trivial useful code ... http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/280 A bit over a year ago, I ported the (NetBSD, but cross-platform) pkgsrc software packaging and installation system to the GNU Hurd. I couldn't find anyone upstream @ pkgsrc who would give it the time of day, so I might was well mention it here for the sake of Google... The ... http://kildall.apana.org.au/~cjb/wordpress/archives/279