I have updated iPhotoToGoogleEarth to work with Leopard and iPhoto ‘08. To get it released quickly I decided to remove the NMEA file integration but that sort of editing is pretty simple to do in Google Earth itself.
I have also taken an evening to get this blog running on WordPress so I’ll be able to keep it updated more often. Not that I’ll be saying much here because most of what I’m doing now revolves around moving to Japan. I’m starting by walking the length of the country to learn more about the people, culture and language. Then I’ll find somewhere cool to settle down and try teaching English for a while. The site will look a little strange as I can only work on it a few hours a night, but eventually I’ll have it looking smart again.
I’m back from the trek and adjusting to being indoors again. Somethings are coming naturally but I’m having trouble starting any of the projects I thought up while I was away. Tomorrow is a big test, the return to work. 9 to 5 under fluorescent lights and in a chair at a desk. It’s going to be a bit of a shock I’m sure but as I’ve been telling people all the way along I’m lucky to have a job waiting for me, many other hikers had to quit their jobs and would now be facing interviews. My brain is still in warm-up mode and I’m in no condition to impress a panel of judges.
Soon I’ll be restarting work on my software projects. iPhotoToGoogleEarth will have one more release before I make a new version for iPhoto 7 (part of iLife ‘08). I’ve some improvements for GeoTagger but it should be forwards compatible already. let me know if that isn’t the case.
If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to check out this little video clip, it shows 5 months of hiking on the PCT
and I may be some time. I am now in America, walking north from the Mexican border to the Canadian border via the Pacific Crest Trail. I’ll be back in October, you can follow the adventure here.
Things have genuinely been busy, but I must take some time out to write about them. The new year is here and I only have 3 months left before I fly off to America and start The Pacific Crest Trail. I got two pieces of news today that help me considerably. The first was that my employer will keep my job for me until I return, this is handy because I know I’ll have an income when I return and can afford to spend a little more while on the trail (though I won’t quite be shouting everyone lobster dinners). The second piece was the very generous offer of accommodation by a couple in San Diego so I have somewhere to stay while I create my resupply packages for the first few months on the trail.
In other news I’ve been training hard, gaining weight and doing a little bit of planning. Last week I walked the Northern Circuit with my dad and sister, then did a couple of extra days on the Round The Mountain track. It was really good to get some proper practice in, using my new tent and cooking tools. I’ll write about it properly over on PCT2007.org with a good selection of photos just as soon as I can. For now though you can check out my new hiker trash look.
The weirdest thing I saw today was a can in the Thai mini-market in Northcote. It was called Birds’s nest and had the strange subtext of “Flavoured Artificial White Fungus” which made up 4% of the ingredients. There’s also some text that says “boisson au parfum du nid d’oiseau” and you hardly need a translater to work out what that means. I bought it and drank it. It wasn’t foul as such, but I wouldn’t buy another one.
Yes I am back from Egypt, and I should have put up a post about what I did there. But things are busy now, and I am very tired. I’ve been tired for a week now and it is not good. I almost fell asleep in front of the big boss today. I been doing stuff too. Yesterday I sorted through almost 1/3 of my Egypt & Jordan photos. They are now all geocoded and ready to appear on Flickr and Panoramio, but I’ll do that another day. For now I have a tiny sample of my holiday snaps. Indisputable evidence that I have been to the great pyramids at Giza.
So here I am in Cairo, where the road markings are just suggestions, and car indicators are aural rather than visual. The are does seem a little smoggy, hoopefully that’ll clear outside the big city. I’m already checked into the hotel and no one else is arriving for several hours, so I have the day to wander around and find a nice park to read a book. Here I go.
I’m almost all packed, just waiting for the traffic to die down so I can get to the super market and buy the last few essentials, and then I’m off. Three weeks in Egypt and Cairo! oh yeah
It’s been almost a year since I last used this. I got busy and I got lazy. On Wednesday I fly off to Egypt, and that has gotten me motivated to start blogging again. I think I’ll leave The Big O.E. as it was, that is over with now and I am onto different things. See you in Cairo!
My work days are taken up writing code. Or staring at others’ code wondering what they were trying to achieve. The stuff I’ve been doing at work hasn’t been very exciting recently and I figured I needed a new project at home. So I built a bed. It’s more of a futon base than a bed as pictured by most people. But I’ve been on futons since forever (apart from the year in Europe which had a lot of trains, ferries, a park bench and a few mountain huts, and the year at my parents’ which was a sofa bed) and I got some cool tatami mats so I based the design around them.
