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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-07

December 7, 2007 - Twitter - by admin - No Comments

Bash is lovely.. convert a bunch of .txt files to .gpx with for i in *.txt; do gpsbabel -i nmea -f $i -o gpx -F `basename $i .txt`.gpx; done # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Shopping and puppies!

December 4, 2007 - Friends , Life , Shopping - by admin - No Comments

Our wedding list will be online soon, just follow the links above to the wedding stuff 🙂 After the shopping fun, we went over to Elwells to have a look at the puppies and to prepare for looking after them tomorrow evening. So small, so cute, so lovely…

KDE Geo Awareness

December 1, 2007 - Cool things , KDE , Openstreetmap - by admin - No Comments

Just discovered a lightning talk by Robert Scott on the future of the KDE geo aware desktop. He touches upon how applications will soon support location awareness, mapping, photography and suchlike. KDE4 should be interesting for those of us with a GPS receiver 🙂

Glasgow Openstreetmap

November 26, 2007 - Internet , Openstreetmap , Web - by admin - No Comments

For those that may find this sort of thing useful, I’ve started keeping a daily dump of the Glasgow area of the Openstreetmap database around here. Also in the OSM directory will be a weekly dump of the Glasgow area.

Hadoop

November 26, 2007 - Computers , Cool things , Linux , Technology - by admin - No Comments

A while back I mentioned Hadoop as The Next Big Thing. Looks like demand has been high in the intervening months, and the Yahoo Developer Network has recently announced a new blog all about Hadoop. An open source Mapreduce implementation with a scalable, clustered and highly redundant storage system? Yes […]

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