I just took delivery of a new toy: had just about forgotten I ever bought it when I found the purchase confirmation email from August 2012. Continue reading “Follow The Yellowbrick Road”
Category: Engineering and Technology
Engineering and technology topics.
Helicopter, photos, GPS, geotags and a copper mine
Some time ago the construction manager on my current project told me about some software that would automatically geotag photographs by matching their date/time with a GPS track. He used to work for BHP Billiton, so the software was hideously expensive.
Experience has taught me that there are free versions of most clever or useful software. In this case it is called GeoSetter and it is really quite good (maybe a few issues with the interface, but nothing I can’t live with). Continue reading “Helicopter, photos, GPS, geotags and a copper mine”
Entry into the blogosphere
After a few months working on Joomla and starting up a few websites I thought it was time to broaden my horizons and try WordPress.
Rather than rolling it out on a commercial site and having to ride the learning curve whilst keeping a client happy I have decided to use it for my own blog. When we get connected at home the other family members may join the fray.
I have set it up on my own webspace which is hosted at Brinkster on a Windows server with php and MySQL (more on that in another post, another day).
WordPress was easy to upload and configure, and I have already added a Google AdSense plugin, Easy AdSense, and the Atahualpa theme which has a ridiculous number of options – so you can expect this blog to do some shapeshifting in the coming days, weeks and months.
I also added my Google Analytics tracking code to the site so I can monitor comings and goings on the site.