Archive for the ‘Sci / Tech’ Category
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Introduction
Winston Churchill’s immortal description of 1939 Russia as “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” is equally true of the current state of digital photography meta data.
Most casual digital photographers never come face to face with meta data. They take their photos, they upload them to a ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Perhaps no other system on an expedition vehicle is as wrapped in mystery or inspires as much outright fear as the propane system.
With its inherently explosive nature and its bewildering variety of connectors, it is easy to understand why the typical overlander avoids the design and implementation of a ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Background:
Garmin MapSource (GMS) is software provided by Garmin with some of its map products. GMS is used to create, edit and manipulate waypoints, routes and tracks. GMS is also used to upload and download GPS data to and from Garmin GPS receivers.
Problem Description:
Garmin MapSource (GMS) will not load/start if its ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Garmin GPS to Google Earth
For this task I use GPSBabel, a great little donateware utility, to generate the Google Earth KML files from GPX files created by Garmin Mapsource. The procedure for creating the GPX files from Mapsource is detailed in the next section.
GPS waypoints and associated photos to ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Route Map
I added a route map of our travels to the web site. Click here for the route map: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/index-routemap.htm
Use the zoom control on the upper left corner of the map to zoom in on a specific location. You can click and drag the map or use the pan control to ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Dear Nakeya,
We spent the last two days at Perito Mereno Glacier in Argentina.
The glacier was very, very big.
When I am around things that are big, I always have the question, “How big is big?”
When we looked through our camper window at the glacier we could not tell ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
This week's gadget of the week is the Celestron Sky Scout Steph gave me for my 50th birthday.
A couple of days ago we were camped up in the Andes on a moonless night and I pulled it out to show her how it worked. We stayed up most of the ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
File this one under: Mystery of the Universe
When we opened up the camper on the docks here in Valparaiso only one thing was out of place.
Our wine opener, a heavy, boxed SrewPull, was on the floor. The door on the cupboard it fell out of was latched closed. But that ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
We flew in from New York to Santiago, Chile two days ago. We spent about five hours walking around Santiago today.
One of the things we immediately noticed here, as we have everywhere we travel in the world, is the difference between the weight of people here and those back in ...
Posted in Sci / Tech, Cultures | 4 Comments »
Friday, November 30th, 2007
I just came across this company and their product launched 1 November, 2007.
Small, lightweight and portable, it combines EPIRB type emergency beacon functions with a general purpose GPS locator tracker and simple "I'm OK" message functions.
It looks like it would be great for hikers, skiers, climbers, mountain bikers, off-road motorcyclists, ...
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