Saturday 4 July 2009

cycle in the hills, Nokia E65 SIM hack, rabbits

We went on a cycle today, I cycled over to Kilmashogue (start of Wicklow way near Marlay park).
Yeow! Steep hill. Fionn drove with kids and kids bikes.
Then we cycled up the hill, had a picnic and cycled back down.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2015681&id=1118555017&l=59f1dcfc6b
We found 2 burnt out cars. One micra in car park.
One white/black BMW up the hills.
Then I cycled back home over the hills instead of on the road.
More steepness. Up and Down steepness. After Three Rock extreme rocky downhill steepness.
Trails deteriorated into very interesting cycling.
I had to walk a bit,
I think there might be an easier track to cycle (as I joined it 100m from bottom of hill!) only it has moved since the map I had was done.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/gaoithe/traces/432302
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.25161&lon=-6.25589&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF

My mobile phone (Nokia E65) has been misbehaving.
Saying "Insert SIM card" and "General System Error" reset needed and crashing/resetting itself (more often than normal).
The web votes for jamming something in behind the SIM and it seems to be working for me :)
I quite like hardware hacks like this :-D
http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/discussions/board/message?board.id=hardware&message.id=7926&jump=true#M7926
http://ocpdesign.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/nokia-e65-sim-card-registration-failed-insert-sim-card-error-cant-update-firmware/
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=58081238

New hutch for the rabbits.
They're not impressed.
Ran around the edges of the garden alot at bedtime.
Twinkle Star is inside nice and cosy but Jack isn't - though he is inside the chicken run so safe.
I also saw a rabbit/hare up in the hills today.

At home GPS trace uploading of the cycle ensued and I wanted an elevation graph.
Here one is: http://www.dspsrv.com/~jamesc/map/Kilmashogue_to_ThreeRock_gpxreport.pdf
http://utrack.crempa.net/
http://code.google.com/p/wherewasi/wiki/WhereWasI
wherewasi.py --eprof -g wami-20090704-00.gpx
wherewasi_gui.py
http://www.fsckin.com/2008/04/06/review-four-linux-gps-packages/
http://www.mapability.com/blogs/gps/2008/07/gpx-route-map-technical-detail.html
http://utrack.crempa.net/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Making_Tracks_with_Homebrew-ware
http://www.nabble.com/Displaying-the-properties-of-GPX-points-td22432909.html
sudo apt-get install viking
http://www.ncc.up.pt/gpsman/wGPSMan_1.html

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