Category Archives: Linux

Using Spatialite to store and represent our GPX data

Background A quick bit of background. As people who read this blog know, we have recorded every journey we make, every day, with a GPS since 2003 (Dan) and 2007 (Sophia). As you can imagine, this practice has evolved technologically … Continue reading

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Goodbye Jitsi, hello again Pidgin

So the world of jabber communication has been a bit unreliable. After successfully trying a jitsi video conversation at home between my distro and Soph’s ubuntu, I tried to have a meeting with someone I’m mentoring and it totally failed. … Continue reading

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CryptoParty Neukölln

When Joseph and Maria from the Slow Tech group came to see Soph and my GPShow at the end our residency at Ausland (see the news page), they invited us to join them at CryptoParty Berlin‘s next event which was … Continue reading

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My Life as a Birch Forest

The image above is from the Jacquard Loom series (see here and here), using my python script to read a year’s worth of data from our GPS records and plugging in Peter’s processing script, the strips were produced, showing GPS … Continue reading

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Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation II

After meeting up with Peter at Martin’s micro_blackdeath ATmega noise workshop at NK on Saturday, we were able to talk a bit more about what I’m calling the Jacquard Loom GPS visualisation of the activity in our database. The python … Continue reading

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