[Cialug] OT Variety of things

[Colin Burnett]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>
>  Great wedding rings (is that an oxymoron?)
>  http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/22/cat-5-wedding-rings-help-nerds-couple/

*thinks of some joke involving token ring and rings being a token of
love, but fails*

>  Does anyone else use software, free or otherwise, with their GPS receiver?
> I was messing around and got the included software to spit out a file of a
> trip around WDM that I could import into Google Earth and have it show me
> approximately what path I took. It's selective precision was odd, I had
> almost exact turns in a parking lot but the last two blocks to my house cut
> through some yards and a crick. I've done that before but this was pretty
> early in the day for cross country.

I have a Garmin 60CSx and I've had success downloading data with
gpsbabel.  From there you can convert it to kml.


Colin