The cool thing about the eTrex Summit, is that it also records altitudes. This was quite handy for the bike ride this weekend on the triathlon I attended. It allowed me to profile the track, and see exactly what kind of elevations I was dealing with. Originally, I’d been given the impression it wasn’t too bad, but it seemed a little steeper than I was lead to believe. After profiling it, the killer bits were all in the wrong places, like right after corners. Here is a Google Earth file showing the track.

A while ago, I mentioned I’d somehow got myself roped into a triathlon. Well, time sneaked up real fast, and suddenly it was here (today), and I didn’t get much training in. I ended up doing a sprint team with one of the guys from work, and another guys wife.

I didn’t end up doing too well, but better than I thought I would, especially after Friday’s 6 mile ride in 45 minutes, and the bike portion was 12 miles. I ended up with a time of 49:25 for 12 miles, averaging about 14.6mph. That ranked me about 347 out of 371. Our team ended up coming in 289 overal.

Once I’ve finished messing with the GPS data, I’ll get a track profile up.

I can’t but help chuckly when an email encryption project crosses my desk, and the slogans are selected from…

• Think different, think protection
• Don’t forget your protection
• Feel good knowing you are protected
• Protect yourself AND your E-mail
• Protection - empowering people
• The power of protection
• Protection? Yes Please.
• Saved by protection

Maybe it’s because my mind seems to be perpetually in the gutter, but I can only link one or two of those to actual work.

This evening I’ve been a busy bee. I had finished off processing my photos from my vacation last week, or at least getting them into JPEGs so I can get them on the gallery for the folks to see. I stumbled across a little hitch though. After managing to upload a single image, every image afterwards popped an interesting permissions error. It was certainly frustrating as I was trying to upload 500+ images. So I closed the java applet, and tried again. Same error. I attempted to login to the site, at which point it told me my user/pass was invalid…

Apparently, 2230 is a bad time to go bike riding around here, as the entire neighborhood has their sprinkers on… I’m a little soggy, oh well… adds to the fun of things I guess.

A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Zooomr, just to play. Whilst uploading a batch of images from the Dallas Arboretum, I noticed a “Geo” feature (I believe Flickr have a similar feature). Having a quick play around, I noticed I was able to append longitude, and latitude to the pictures, and then search by those coordinates to find other pictures from the same location. This started a little seed in the back of my head, regarding GPS tagging images…

Weesa made an interesting observation about the invasion of an individual’s rights. More particularly in reference to a DNA database. I posted a comment about the UK having the highest CCTV cameras in the world.

Whilst on vacation, the evidence walked right up and greeted me as I walked into the London Science Museum¹. Ironically positioned underneath a TV screen showing you the feed from the video camera that was watching you as you walked in the door.

I’ve been using Google Reader for my RSS feeds for a while now, and I’m quite addicted to the key navigation. J to move forward, K to move back. The problem is, I’ve been corrupted by these two keys alone. I’m trying to read news groups in Forte Agent, and I keep hitting J wondering what’s going on, when it should really be N for next new message… argh!!

A while back (quite a while now), I wrote a quick post on using bash to combine a handful of tools to organize your music collection on Linux. Weesa also mentioned being a neat freak, and wanted to know how to do it. So here is the way I do it on Windows using QMP.

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