One step up

Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 - 3:00pm

After the loss of the old website database I am back up and trying to restore something useful.

For now this little more than a "We'll be backup up soon" page is the first little step to actually be back up again. So please still have some patience.

1&1 MailXchange and SyncML

Posted on Monday, January 18, 2010 - 8:39pm

When using 1&1 MailXchange E-mail system, one can use sync clients for MS Outlook (Desktop and Mobile). I am using the mobile sync client and it works like a charm.

On my computers I don't use MS Outlook, but Thunderbird and Lightning instead. As Outlook, these don't provide native SyncML connectors. 1&1 doesn't offer much of a help about the SyncML used, but with a little web search and trial-and-error I was able to find a way to sync Thunderbird and Lightning with my MailXchange account.

EPSG:900913

Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 3:24pm

It took me a while, but now my geocaching map is online. It lists all geocaches found by team ItTakesTwo (Liz, Anja and me) troughout the world. After fiddling with EPSG:4326 (WGS84 geographic data) and EPSG:900913 (unofficial spherical mercator projection used by Google and others) you can now see the map on this website. It is based on the great OpenLayers framework and uses Cloudmade OpenStreetMap and Google Maps data for basemaps, while the caches are pulled in from an GPX file.

I hope to update the map regularly.