A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

With Google Buzz introduced by Google Inc. the other day (and without much hype I might say) and Facebook Inc. introducing their new layout around the same time, my thoughts from the last year have been confirmed even more. Well, for me at least. So I decided to share a train of thought with some of my friends on Google Buzz, which turned out to be a bit longer than expected; And so I post it here for all.

This is pretty cool, another request to do an interview. And this time by adminextra.com and this time I decided to do it via youtube. So enjoy!

Here is a tutorial how to create topographic maps that can be viewed on your android powered device.  Street navigation software is plentiful for the Android platform but topographic navigation software is between scarce and nonexistent.  After searching Google, forums and the Android Marketplace I finally found a single program capable of accepting maps in the WGS84 format used by all Garmin maps.  This program is called OruxMaps and has received almost no attention even though it is over a year old.  There are multiple advantages of being able to use a Garmin topo map on your Android device with a GPS sensor: No long downloads from the Internet, no data connection required, an abundance of highly detailed maps up to 1:24000 scale or better, etc.  Until Garmin releases an Android version of their software this is the next best thing.

The blog has been moved from one dedicated server to another! If you read this it means you are now reading the blog on the new dedicated server.

Some time ago a friend on IRC suggested to remove the clutter from the frontpage of my blog, to draw more attention to the content. I agreed and have been thinking about it for a while. Today I opened up Things.app and saw the item still pending and decided to get my sharpie and paper out. And give it a try.

Here’s what I sometimes do and drop and pick back up again months later: Daily walks.

I do not get enough exercise in a day. And that’s for various reasons. But being almost 33 it’s taking a toll so I have to walk on a daily basis to give my body what it needs.

So the last few months I have simply picked it up again and started walking daily – starting with small distances.

Smashing Magazine issued a challenge where they want you to draw something for about 15 minutes every day. While basically impossible because we all have better things to do. I accept the challenge because I want to do at least my best. For myself. I tweet once a week with my results (to not clutter up my twitter stream) And try to remember to publish the results in a blog post once a week or month too. This is the first week, but I have already cheated.

I have tried various things last year, sorta, to get rid of the habit of buying what I like to call ‘the fast food of drinks’, your standard cans of cola, bottles of soda, dr peppers, etc. This post is about why I picked water, but that I am not giving up on the rest cold turkey.

Once in a while I do something to improve my life, such as changing what I do, what I eat, how I live, etc. I do this with a test from Monday to Friday, and if I like it, extend this later in the year to a month. And perhaps make it a default behavior in the new year. It’s now a new year and one of those tests was a bottle of water every day. Instead of whatever I used to drink.