It might not surprise you to learn that my main hobby is also 'computer related stuff'. I was reminded of this when being asked to fill out a bit of pre-work for an upcoming 'team building day'. Oh my, that'll be fun then...

Anyhow, Dan sent on a link to the GeekDad blog and suggested I might be interested. Sure am. I was already aware of it (mainly through reading Chris' Long Tail blog, and Wired in general), but Dan spurred me into some action.

Evan was supposed to go to a pirate party this weekend, but was a bit down from her two-month jabs, so we dressed her up anyway, but didn't get to the party. (Present is in the post, Monty).

OK, so Geek Weekend I.

I went out and bought a Bluetooth GPS device: one of those sports tracker things, and signed up for SportsDo. SportsDo are a great example of a S+S style proposition, producing mobile (Windows and Java) software to create 'activities' and then a website to plot the relevant GPS data on Virtual Earth or Google Maps.

Typically this would be used by skiers, cyclists or runners. Now, I don't ski or cycle, but I do run a lot. This is on a machine at the gym at TVP typically though, so not much interesting GPS info. (I guess I could plot my movements around a pool table...).

Anyway, as an experiment, we took the kit shopping and it produced very accurate results. You can even see us meandering up and down the aisles... A lot of fun anyway.

I'll put some more of my journeys on SportsDo at some point.