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Garmin Topographic Maps for Android Phone

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 … Continue reading

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New Server

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.

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Small Blog Design Update

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 … Continue reading

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Daily Walks

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 … Continue reading

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SM #daily365 Week 1

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 … Continue reading

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Coffee, Water, Juice, Tea, or Soda?

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 … Continue reading

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An extra bottle of water

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 … Continue reading

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Using a real notepad

With great feedback from my friends regarding this blog article I wrote: Organizing my todo list, I have decided to share a dirty little secret: I use a real notepad (too).

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Finally a real winter in Holland

Usually our winters mean a day of snow, and a week of cold weather with ice like rain and quite windy. But this time around we had a few weeks of snow, and it’s still snowing and freezing at night. … Continue reading

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Backing-, and cleaning up Dropbox

Syncing data between computers isn’t the only problem we’ve been fighting in the last few decades using them, but also sharing this data (socially) between friends has been at least uncomfortable. DropBox is a cross computer cloud solution that helps … Continue reading

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