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I’m now using Feed Burner to manage my RSS feed. You should notice Flickr photos show up alongside posts. If you think this is good or bad, let me know.

Flickr has a new feature which allows you to geotag your images and put it all on a Yahoo Map.  Here’s my map.

At this week’s HackNight we brought our own power to the park and built a temporary OLSR network. We also played with madwifi-NG’s one radio repeater mode, openWRT, and gutted a Alvarion CPE. There were no styrofoam planes.

Jason Gondziola stopped by hacknight for some interviews. He is making a short film on North American Community Wireless Networks for Citizen Shift. Just a stop in the journey, he has already been to BCWireless, Wireless Toronto, Il Sans Fil, and NYCWireless.

Other than giving the general SeattleWireless story to Jason, we talked a bit about mesh networking, most notably the Meraki Mini (spawned from RoofNet), the recent MacBook exploit, and the upcoming Field Day.

This week at HackNight, we flew planes for an appropriate amount of time, watching Ken nearly lose his plane as it flew over the nearby church and landed in a far-away tree. We drifted back and forth through the technical as well as task and goal oriented discussions, but the one highlight (at least in my mind) was the discussion with Casey about the upcoming Field Day. Field Day cannot just be a technology demo given by a few of us to other people. It should be participatory and fun. It also needs some solid goals, deadlines and milestones, just like any other project. If you want to help out / participate / have fun, come to HackNight and tell us what you’re going to do to achieve that and what we need to do to help.