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One-week trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back (March 15–22). Map with tracks, waypoints and links to photo albums.

I gave a talk at the Seattle Java User Group this week, where I talk about two technologies I use at work: The OSGi module system, and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Giving this talk was a good experience, and the audience was great. You can watch the talk below.

Here’s a map that shows every tracklog I recorded this year, driving and hiking around Washington State (mostly).

Trip report for a one-week vacation on Kauai (Hawaii), April 8th — 15th.

Google Docs recently added support for uploading arbitrary files (up to 250MB large). Can this be used to host Java applets?

While hiking, I often carry along a small GPS device to record my tracks. This is not just useful in case I get lost and need to backtrack, but also allows me to geotag my pictures before uploading them. Plus it can be fun to review a hike in Google Earth. What about sharing tracklogs? This can be valuable when hiking in areas with outdated maps or maps hat don’t have all trails. So I had a look at some of the existing websites for sharing GPS tracklogs — here’s what I found.

Here are my take-away notes from the first day of the Google Testing and Automation Conference.

Having my sister visit me here in Seattle provided a good excuse to do some local sightseeing — first by land and water with the Ducks of Seattle, then by air with Seattle Sea Planes.

Here are some take-away notes from the course on presenting data and information that Edward Tufte gave in Seattle on July 17.

Over the last few days several books from Manning Publications appear to have been added to Safari Books.