Rickety Tech Update

One thing I wanted to improve upon this year was our connectivity and updates so I’ve devised a plan.  Whether it works in practice or not shall be seen, but here it goes:

For mobile internet access, we will attempt to use our iPhone’s internet connection, as slow and unreliable as it is.  I’m using the method described on LifeHacker to generate a local network and do an ssh tunnel through the EDGE network.

I’d like to also post semi-realtime GPS data on our website so people can track where we are.  To do this, I will be leaving a GPS running and every so often download the tracking data and upload it to the website.  We can then display it using Google Maps using Gmap GPX Parser Software

We will also be using twitter to post updates at times.  If you use twitter, subscribe to @ricketyvan

I’m pretty optimistic this will work, but as anyone who’s used an iPhone’s internet connection before knows it’s hardly reliable so we shall see.