We’ve safely arrived in Puebla de Zaragosa, Mexico and broken the fast for today. The town is known for its cathedrals and museums – Let’s see how much of it we can cope with.

Also, here’s a tracklog.

You get this message by using the hack back button of your browser, after logging in. Pretty cheeky for an official site of the German administration.

a few quick updates on the software tree:

• phenny word games is a list of wikipedia based word games for the phenny irc bot written in python. There are implementations of games not unlike boggle[tm], anno domini[tm], taboo[tm] and common trivia and anagram modules. If you would just like to have a look how they work, join us at irc://irc.foonetic.net/#puzzles
• the whole software tree has moved from svn to git. voices in my head told me to.

ARD 23:30 Polylux on geohashing.

Now available online:

Our new office oasis. Complemented by exotic birds.

TangoGPS is a wonderful tool to navigate using OpenStreetMap data. Currently though, it does not yet support the loading of track files. However, here is a little hack to insert track points from a GPX file into the tangoGPS POI database. This may be useful for rudimentary routing and for geocaching. As seen on the screenshot, a route is displayed as a series of unconnected track points.

The small script is written in python. It requires pysqlite2. It reads a gpx file, and inserts track points directly into the file poi.db which you can find in your .tangogps directory. It works for me and files generated by the Open Route Service. Your mileage may vary, and you might have to edit the regular expression which identifies the track points (Refer to the comments for using it with gpsbabel) . Don’t forget your backup.

Download here: gpx2tango.py

More tools:

• loc2tango.py for those geocaching.com loc files.
  • An advanced version by nlaurance (blog entry | download)
• pocket2tango.py for those geocaching.com pocket query GPX files. Includes basic information (and, optionally, hints) into waypoint information. Writes full html cache description to separate html file.

Download reletHandwritingCasual.ttf v0.1 (TrueType, 18K) –

That’s right. Now you can write just like I do. Blame it on fontforge, a wonderful tool for creating fonts, which I discovered a few weeks ago. The font is still a bit unbalanced, and most special characters are missing, but the overall impression is quite like what I expected.