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The Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit
…was fabulous.
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Psychogeophysics Summit Day 3
A glorious late summer day, we set out in the van to Grimes Graves, a Neolithic flint mine I’d been to with Dad not two months previously. I left my camera and eeepc recording above (the grass and clouds in the time-lapse) while I went down alone with the …
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Psychogeophysics Summit Suffolk Day 2
I continued with the webcam documentary of our days, this time remembering to take out a fully charged eeepc.
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Psychogeophysics Summit Day 1
As you can see, there’s not a lot of this timelapse as I made the mistake of working on the eeepc before we went out and running down the battery. It was a pity, because this was the day we went to the site of ‘Britain’s Roswell’: Rendlesham …
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Museum Street
It’s a surreal experience: getting into the centre of London ‘too early’. Walking down Oxford Street at half past nine on a Sunday morning is like some future film about survivors of some mystery virus that wipes out all but the uninformed.
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Fleeting Moments of Happiness
This Summer has been so terrible so far weather-wise that I’m thinking more and more about a programme I listened to on Radio 4 last month (Does Happiness Write White?), which was looking at how happiness is an under-represented emotion in modern literature. During the course of the programme …
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What GPS / GPX visualisation software to use in Linux
OK, so you’ve chosen a GPS, based on the last post and you’ve taken a walk with it and are itching to look at what you’ve done. There are so many sites now offering advice, mostly for Windoze of course and mostly for proprietary or shareware programmes …
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What GPS to use
This is a follow up to this post ages ago outlining the technical aspects of our GPS data collection for those that might want to do something similar.
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Speed Map of Berlin
I’ve been experimenting with Mathieu Baudier’s PostgreSQL / PostGIS importer for our tracks (I’ll write about this later soon) and visualising my database of tracks in QGIS. Many possibilities become available. Mathieu’s importer calculates speed for every vector in the database so that you can perform queries …
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Visit to the Konrad Zuze exhibit at the Technical Museum with Martin
I decided to take Martin’s Skrying board with me to the Technical Museum where we both wanted to see the Zuse display which is itself a confusing and patronising combination of hi- and lo-tech with ‘books’ with inbuilt speakers you can’t turn the sound off of and displays …
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