FRIMAN.org

I got a really good deal on a Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx GPS receiver and I just couldn’t resist it. I was actually shopping for a Sony GPS-CS1 to help geotag the photos I upload to Flickr but the more I read up on the subject, the more I realized it would be stupid not to buy a full featured GPSr for just little over twice the price of the Sony unit. After a couple of hours more reading and searching, I stumbled across this thing called geocaching which seems to be a really fun and geeky hobby. There are so many uses of the GPSr I don’t know how I could live without one before - geotagging photos, geocaching, helping me find my way on the road and in the “bush”, logging roadtrips and hikes and display them graphically using Google Earth, etc. Two big annoyances though; the maps are horribly expensive, and, Garmin has not finished their MapSource software for Mac OS X yet so I have to fire up my Windows-box for certain tasks.

Got myself a job! I’m on my second week working for the Swedish Armed Forces as a factotum/caretaker at the students service center and lodging. So far I like it very much. I’ve signed a contract lasting until the end of the year but hopefully they will need me for longer than that.

I’ve switched Wordpress theme and along with that I made the whole site Wordpress-powered. Not everything is back to what it was but I will continue to spend some time every day to get the static info online. The URL to my Photo Gallery changed in the process from http://www.friman.org/gallery/flickr/ to the shorter http://www.friman.org/gallery/. This means that the 1.110 links from Google now are pointing to non existing pages. Maybe I put some kind of .htaccess-redirection in place, or I can just let the search engines index my site all over. I’m not getting that many hits anyway…

Also, I think my hosting provider is experiencing problems with my server right now. Occasionally, pages don’t load or give strange errors. I suspect there’s something wrong with the database connection. I guess I’ll have to contact them…

*over and out*