tasteslikefire: dude

So my team here has been working on a framework for data collection called Yggdrasil lately. Which has kept us all very busy, one of the milestones we are coming up to involves working with Warren Wilson college on an installation of sensors that they have been working with in the Panamanian Rainforest

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pic stolen from blog link below -ed

In preparing for it we've started cleaning up parts of Yggi for external consumption, if your interested in data collection frameworks ( you know you want to, all the cool kids are doing it ) then check out chris' blog and a quick example

[Warning: example is pre-alpha, no really it is, really pre-alpha]

just testing that my month long transition to a new laptop has kept my blog-tool intact

Just a quick note that the team was working on some long wifi links, check out

Roberts pic of me up on an antenna mast. just another day at sun labs

So Im in Shanghai for a few days, attending and presenting at a Sun sponsored event for universities, the ERC. Its been overcast and drizzling the whole time, but I've had some great food, and the hotel Im at is right next to the Bund, and of course I've had to take a few 'SPOTs meet world' shots :)

Presented to a small crowd here, I think it went pretty well. What I've enjoyed most here is meeting and hanging out with the local campus ambassadors. They've been doing some really great coding and development in general and some cool stuff specific to the SPOTs. Had a fantastic dinner last night where I was introduced the the ancient Chinese custom of 'bottoms up' :) Im going to get a chance to sit down with some of the SPOTs developers today and toss around ideas and share some code. Not bad eh?