Greater Grater Woods geocache replaced

This evening Griffin, Trevor and I replaced the Greater Grater Woods (GC10QMW) geocache that some kids trashed. It was the one near the north part of the Grater Woods property near some very large rocks -- it turns out that it is about 500ft from Beebe Lane. Last winter that area seemed so far and remote, but it is very close to a number of homes.

We were going to replace the camera in the Lesser Grater Woods cache, but now that we can't just walk across the frozen water, you have to go east around the beaver pond or just approach it from the MMS side. Maybe tomorrow evening.

I brought along my camera and GPS and took a bunch of photos that you can see via Google Maps.

Either click here to see it on Google's maps.google.com site.

(Click on some of the photo icons)

Or if you have the Google Earth (free for Windows/Mac/Linux) application installed, click here and it should run on your PC (and faster, more features).

There is a free open source application, gpicsync, for Windows/Linux that takes the GPS track info and matches it up with the timestamp of the photos and generates a file for Google Earth to use.

gpicsync on Ubuntu/Feisty

GPicSync is a very nice cross-platform tool to match up photos with GPS locations. However it requires a package that isn't included by default by Ubuntu/Feisty.

1. Download GPicSync from http://code.google.com/p/gpicsync/

2. Unpack it: tar zxf Linux-GPicSync-0.91.tar.gz

3. Move to the directory it created: cd Linux-GPicSync-0.91

4. Set the GUI and command line versions of the program executable: chmod +x gpicsync-GUI.py gpicsync.py

5. Install the Ubuntu/Feisty package python-wxgtk2.8 which provides the python bindings for the wx library and the exiftool: sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8 libimage-exiftool-perl

6. Run the program and start geotagging photos: ./gpicsync-GUI.py

Some photos from MySQL Conference 2007 Day 3

Clash of the Database Egos

Michael (Monty) Widenius, CTO & Co-founder, MySQL AB

Mikael Ronström, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB

Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB

Heikki Tuuri, Vice President, server technology, Innobase Oy

Ari Valtanen, Co-Founder, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Solid Information Technology

Paul Whittington, Founder and Chief Architect, NitroSecurity, Inc.

Mike Smith, IBM


Eben Moglen


Bdale Garbee

Some photos from MySQL Conference 2007 Day 2

See the complete set here: MySQL Conference 2007


Marten Miko & Guy Kawasaki


Marten Mikos / Mark Jones (hp) MySQL Partners of the Year Awards



Guy Kawasaki


Marten Mikos


Guy Kawasaki


Marten Mikos

Going to MySQL Conf 2007

I am heading off to Santa Clara on Sunday for this year’s MySQL conference agin. On the flight out I have a window seat and hope to have enough light for some photos. Keep an eye out on http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcn/

Look for me in one of those always stylish HP shirts. ;-)

Hillary Clinton @ Hampton, NH

Hillary Clinton in Hampton, NH



Senator Clinton and most of Nozell/Thomas family


Senator Clinton in Hampton, NH


US State Representative Carol Shea-Porter



NH State Senator Maggie Wood Hassan



Hillary Clinton in Hampton, NH photoset.

NH Gymnastics Team Meet

After missing the New England Regional Gymnastics meet at MIT because of illness, Trevor had a great meet last weekend.

2007 Boys' Team Meet (Level 5 & 4) at NEGTC (Hudson, NH)


Floor: 9.1
Pommel: 9.0
Rings: 9.5
Vault: 9.8
Pbars: 9.3
Hbars: 9.3
AA: 56.0


Both the Level 4 and Level 5 Boys' teams from Gymnastics Village won 1st place.