David Carrington

Thank you, GPSBabel, for letting me convert my list of local geocaches to Google Earth KML format:

gpsbabel -i geo -f geocaches.loc -o kml -F geocaches.kml

A while back someone messaged me on MSN and said “What’s your idea then?”. I had no idea what they were talking about, but it turns out that my Jabber / MSN profile picture has been the Jabber lightbulb for a while.

Now I’ve changed it to my Blogger profile picture and I’m told I look like a winter clothing model. Oh well, I’m happy the MSN transports picked up Google Talk’s photo.

It’s time for me to trial run of using yet another Google product: Blogger.

I have to admit that I really do like Google and I use a large number of their applications. There’s only two big ones that stand out that I don’t use:

• Google Desktop - I haven’t ever tried it, but I don’t spend much time hunting stuff down on my own PC, I know where it all is already - so I don’t think I need it.
• Picasa - as it feels wrong, too rounded and friendly for my liking

Perhaps Blogger should “feel wrong” too, but in a browser I’m less picky about how things should look. I quite like all the colours and rounded buttons of the Blogger interface, and I don’t yet hate the bar along the top of my site, so I’ll use it for a while and see how things go.

I feel a little addicted to Google……..