TomTom POI bestand met BMW Motorrad dealers

Garmin is de huisleverancier van BMW Motorrad. Echter mijn Garmin Zumo 660 is sinds kort ingeruild voor een TomTom Rider v3. Redenen om over te stappen zijn: de Zumo 660 is trager dan een Commodore 64, raakt volledig de weg kwijt in steden met smalle straatjes, stuurt je rustig een gravelweg op met "Vermijd onverharde weg" aan, op rotondes loopt 'ie ongeveer 180 graden achter zodat je de verkeerde afslag neemt, vergeet af en toe z'n BlueTooth verbinding, laat je rustig de verkeerde kant van een eenrichtingsstraat in rijden (met Guardia Civil agenten die toekijken met een diepe frons) kortom, een drama.

Sinds BMW alleen (?) Garmin ondersteund, zijn sommige zaken niet beschikbaar voor de TomTom. Een van de zaken die beschikbaar zijn voor de Garmin is de lijst met BMW dealers (Europa/wereldwijd). Gelukkig kan het zogenaamde Pont-Of-Interest bestand geconverteerd worden van GPI (Garmin) naar OV2 (TomTom). De volgende website doet dit voor je (en voor alle andere navigatie bestanden die je wilt converteren):

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel

Voor het gemak kan je hier de BMW Motorrad dealer adressen wereldwijd downloaden voor je TomTom. Dit POI bestand kan met Tyre op je TomTom gezet worden. Plezier er mee!

Update (25-Jul-2014): Probeer ook eens deze link: http://custom.gps-data-team.com/custom_poi.php
Opmerking: POI downloads voor (bijna?) alle GPS systemen

The best way to contact me...

Is email!

I was thinking of writing an article about the best method to contact me. But Volker already did a post about the same subject. See vowe's blog here. Admitted, he is the same generation as me, and grew up with email and started to use IM and other direct communication tools. However, since Airstrip 1 is part of Oceania most of the communication tools might not be to secure or trusted. Email and email security is something that you can control yourself.

Luggage policies at Heathrow, Terminal 4

It seems that the "three bag luggage policy" (read more here) is still active in Airstrip One:

I think I found a method to prevent to be 'elected' for a rescan. Since this is a three bag policy, an empty bag is most likely not part of a rescan since there is no luggage in it at all! So empty your bag(s) completely. Even with a small laptop bag this could take up to 4 or 5 bins to store all your stuff. At the end you have to repack but that takes much less time then a rescan. Especially with travelers with big suitcases or traveling with little children, it can 20-30 minutes until your stuff is rescanned again.Using this method also will limit the capacity of the scanning stations which is good for the UK Border Patrol employee jobs! A win-win situation!

Voor alle mensen die denken dat ze lelijk zijn...

Verschil tussen zelfbeeld en werkelijkheid...

DIY cloud encryption with Scrambls

Scrambls is cloud encryption engine with a large number of possibilities. You can use the Scrambls browser plug-ins to encrypt stuff on social media. Actually, you can use the Scrambls browser plug-in for encryption task in webpages and cloud based backends. The content creator (you!) determines who can read the encrypted information.

Example. We are going to encrypt a string and going to set Scrambls access control. This string is not encrypted so anyone can read, including Google and the NSA :-)
 
"Scrambls is a cloud encryption engine for social media, browser and filesystem based data"

Now I encrypt the string with Scrambls (note: nothing special that I have to do, just in the Blogspot editor):

[scrambls}cfedBYLdn7a ≗⋙⋒≘⋝⋜⊽∩⊹ ∋∓ ∩ ⊘⊈⊞≲⊊ ≄⋟⊡≣∟∃∬⊙≀≐ ⊚∘∾≱∐⊾ ☆∼∬ ≠∠≥☉≳⊉ ⊄⊘⊀☊∌≄ ≤≝☃⊕≖⋭⊨ ≥≞∡ ⊐≄⊩⊸⊆⋭⋀⊊☇⋗ ⊷⊙≒∈∣ ∥∮⊤≥∈{]

If you do not have the Scrambls plug-in or if I exclude you from reading, you (and Google and the NSA) will see Wingdings scrambled text. If you do have the Scrambls plug in, you see the string again. The fun part is that I can determine (also after publishing!) who can read the encrypted string without changing the blogpost! So the content of the data is not changed, only the access control list! It is a dynamic, non-intrusive access control mechanism. Think of all the fully automated encryption application you can build with that!

Now the better news: the Scrambls Site Integration Guide is published. You can create your own webpages that automatically encrypt/decrypt information for the end user while all data is stored encrypted.

Now a problem rises: my fantasy lacks to think of application that can use Scrambls. Yes, I have build an Scrambls enabled web-mail system and a couple of my posts on social media are Scrambled (so that only my colleagues can read), but can you think of other applications that benefit from Scrambls?

Click here if you need support or more information on Scrambls or go to the Scrambls website.