Deb Bassett - Urbanwide

Going Solo - Conference for Freelancers

Update: watch Steph’s fabulous Going Solo vid here!

Going Solo looks like a fab conference to go to if you’re a freelancer or small business. It’s the first of it’s kind, and anything that helps fast-track your learning on the practical skills I certainly overlooked when first starting out as a freelancer has to be worth it’s salt.

So get yourself over to Lausanne in Switzerland (it’s near Geneva) on 16th May - there’s even a 10% discount for GeekUp members - enter GEEKUPSPC on registration! Also of note is the bring a friend discount which gives groups 10% off for 2 people, 15% for 3 people and so-on until you reach 25%.

Read on for a quick overview of what Going Solo offers you (lifted from the site):

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GeekUp Leeds - tomorrow (Wed 16th April), 6pm

I’m pleased to announce the 11th GeekUp Leeds! We’re back in the Lounge again after a couple of months away, so head on over, we have a fantastic schedule for you!

This month we’re lucky enough to have 2 talks:

• James McGivern on “Maven, Ant Killer?”
• Lorna Mitchell on “Enterprise Web Development”

There’s just about time for another ad-hoc 20:20 if anyone feels the need!

Do tell us if you’re coming

Details:

• When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 16th April, 2008 (Talks start at 7:00PM)
• Where: The Lounge, St. Johns House, Merrion St, Leeds LS2 8JE
• Photo of the the Lounge
• GeekUp web site
• 20:20 presentation format

Snowboarding GPS Foo

After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded.

Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our location every 2 seconds and put it in my jacket pocket for the day.

At the end of each day, I downloaded our traces from the GPS onto my laptop using GPSBabel, then at the end of the trip, loaded them all into Google Earth and munged them around a bit (mostly cosmetic) and saved them all into one KML file.

If you fancy having a look at where we boarded, download the KML file here (right click and save), and open it in Google Earth.

More detailed instructions here from last year’s trip to Obertauern

If you don’t feel like downloading Google Earth, here’s a less interesting 2D Google Maps version

Update: see our photos from the trip