We are now in Berlin-Mitte, hanging out with our friend and ex-seattle-neighbor Sarah, Batteries are all charging again, and we’re back on an actual network. I’ve checked out 16photos, and it looks like it’s updating even on these roaming networks, and I’m tagging the upload here updating my new trip gallery. On a side note, I’m really happy to have synced iCal to my iPod before everything ran out of juice, otherwise I never would have been able to give the cab driver the address. Looking around the area, I can see antennas on old apartment blocks everywhere. I’ll probably toss a metrix box out on the deck in a little while to do an impromptu survey, but first I think I need to drink a beer and get over this jet-lag.
Monthly Archive for August, 2004
Big red NO SMOKING signs everywhere. This is not the Europe I remember in 2000
Talked to Doug Schuler (it was him), and he is off to Russia for some other con
ferences. I’ll have to ping him when he gets back and find out what it was. Very cool to see a familiar face this early on though.
There is a very very yellow smoking area. And there’s coffee. It’s even good. Probably the best airport coffee I’ve had in a while.
GPRS Update: At the Amsterdam Airport, I’m now roaming on Ben NL. I wonder if they peer with T-Mobile Worldwide. If not, I’m sure I’ll end up paying $3 for a blog entry
Brenna and I now on the first leg of our flight to the FreiFunk Conference in Denmark. I’m burning up some battery to jot down what should be the first entry in a series of trip updates. This trip looks to be chock-full-of-wireless, because in addition to the main conference, we will be seeing the folks at Berlin Wireless, Wireless Leiden, Consume, and hopefully, Wireless France in their home cities.
I really wish they’d remove the ashtrays from Airplane seats. It just reminds me that I can’t smoke on the plane anymore, and I -really- want one.
Does anyone know if Doug Schuler from TESC is going to the con? I think I saw him (or his doppelganger) on the plane.
| Back in January, I picked up a free with rebate wireless usb adaptor. Of course, I didn’t send in the rebate. I’ve finally gotten around to tearing it apart. For those of you running OSX, you’ll be happy to know that it works with Kismac as a passive device and packet injector. |
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Ken has started up the Seattle Drunks Wiki, a website dedicated to cataloguing happy hour specials, connecting techie-drunks, and avoiding excel virii. On a suggestion left by a visitor, I’ve started up a WirelessDrinking page, so those of us who need a drink to read our mail can do so in our favorite places.
I think I need some help, I spend most of my time on Capitol Hill, and although I’d like to check out every bar in the city, I just don’t have that much time. Grab your laptop, head down to your favorite pub and edit this page. If you can’t drink alone, or don’t have a laptop, you can buy me a drink and I’ll do it for you.
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Ben over at Golden Hill Free Web has some pictures of his new solar powered Metrix Kit.
Ben is using solar because it’s much more cost-effective than running conduit, and like many of us, he is interested in bringing the technology where there might not be the luxury of a first world power grid. This is his second solar powered rig, and he is definitely refining the process. “Because of lessons learned from the first solar rig, I scaled back the size of the panel (now a unisolar 32 watt), and tried two 12 volt 18 AmpHour gel cell batteries wired in parallel, which should give me just over a 100 hours of run time.” For those of you interested in setting up a solar powered node, there are more details on parts and prices at socalfreenet and daily wireless. |
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I’m currently watching a live quicktime stream of the August BAWUG meeting at Intel. If you’re around, tune in!
If you can’t watch right now, Matt Peterson has promised an archive will be posted soon.
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