Arrived in the Cost Rica backpackers hostel at 5pm after leaving Cambridge at 2.45am, A long day with all the connections clicking into place, lets hope it goes as well for Sally.
The immigration officer was very friendly even though ne noticed my birthplace, on the passport, doesn’t have a football team. Knew i should have been in Sheffield.
The hostel seems good value at $25 per night with their transfer costing $20, food not so good, rather burnt tortilla chips.
Here is the rather pleasant pool area:-
Driving through downtown San Jose rather reminded me of parts of Dubai (not the new skyscraper bit obviously) although a lot more razor wire here!!
Today I noticed my Flickr viewson the 5,697 images I share have reached 100,089 🙂 Would have been nice to display my popular image of all time but Flickr don’t seem to let me find out easily, anymore 🙁
Wonder how many pictures the collection will grow by on the the next 90 days!
I finally managed to get my bargain 4GB Asus701 Eee to run with XP professional and for there to be still about 1GB of spare space after installing all my must have programmes for travelling and suffering the SP3 upgrade.
Various points of hard earned wisdom are:-
Use nLite to shrink your XP but be careful what you take out and leave in. I used substanially these notes from i64X
However, make sure you leave the Internet explorer box ticked at the compatability screen and to untick the window sound drivers in the Drivers option. (The windows default drivers seem to screw up the installation of the Asus sound stuff).
Filezilla ftp client for maintaing and setting up blogs for folks I meet.
So of the 3.71GB available I now have 722MB left (although I’m pretty certain Garmin will be getting deleted as its very bloatware like at 200MB).
Now to check out the battery life etc and to find WiFi connections.
And for you Linux geeks out there, I did so try to get GPSBabel running on the Asus Xandros OS but totally failed, although I did manage to get the full Linux desktop installed for a time.
All the above has probably taken about 3 solid days in time although the final nLite creation and installation was about 2 hours! Cold boot time is about 1minute.
Some of you may say what about the iPhone? My answers are:-
Its terribly fragile and as Euan knows not very water resistant!
You can only use its internal GPS / Camera.
Mine is still locked = hideous O2 roaming charges
So the trusty unlocked Treo680 will get another outing!
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