4 Months until LRL 2006

OOoooh, its very excitin'

Garmin i3

Its time to add my 2 pence to the whole GPS / SatNav argument. Friday I went and got myself the tidy little Garmin i3. Unpacking it at work and throwing in a couple of batteries I was only disappointed; I couldnt get a signal. I left it a while then fitted it yesterday, mid way home it suddenly started working! After looking up towards the heavens themselves, I notice that what must have been the extremely heavy cloud had left; since then I've only lost signal once, between 2 high buildings and that was in the middle of Bristol.

For about £130 from Halfords you really can't go wrong with this device. It may not have a built in battery, and it does eat the AA's quite quickly, but I wouldn't expect you to use this outside of the car due to its rather cubiod and pocket-unfriendly nature.

Cars, Eyes and GPS/SatNav

Well I've eventually passed my driving test, and to congratulate me the insurance goes up by a tenner a month. Oh well, it would've been worse if I had failed my eye test yesterday - basically I've got a small grey freckle on the back of my retina (See: Choroidal Nevus), and I've got a 1/1000 chance of it actually doing anything other than sitting there and looking out at the world like a big goon (I say big, but its only 1/12th disc size...whatever that means).

Awesome. At least I'm not going blind! :D

Now the interesting thing is now I can drive [legally], I could do with an incar GPS device to take me around the world / Bath; I'd love to have a linux based device, like the TomTom GO models, or perhaps hack something together with a Nokia 770, a bluetooth GPS receiver, and GPSDrive, but both of these solutions are ridiculously expensive imho. So that basically leaves me with the shit at the bottom of the barrel; a Garmin i3 and some NavMan stuff.

My Dad's had Garmin stuff in the past and its generally not that bad, but the i3 runs on AA batteries and has no touchscreen. Urgh. As for the NavMan, I've never used it nor known anyone who has. Either way I'm going to be taking a trip to Halfords tomorrow, as they seem to be the cheapest and easiest place to get to from work. They're even cheaper than most specialist places on the internet, and ebuyer.

Electricity Rocks

Chip, from Apache and NetGamers #php fame, has posted a rather interesting google video. Check it out here.

Bingo Wings

LUGRadio - Bingo Wings (Season 3, episode 11) is out. Get it now :)

Also check out lugradio.org/register to get LRL2006 tickets, now.

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