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Today's purchases

• CD Hashish and Liquor by Dave Graney and Clare Moore
• CD el momento siguiente by The Church
• a small gift for a nephew's christening present
• 1:250,000 map (SI55-15) of the Wagga Wagga area for cycling holiday
• an historic map of Melbourne's railways 1854-2004

Today's accomplishments

• hung the ceramic frog tile that was a Christmas present from Kathy on the kitchen wall.
• collected the case of Xanadu Chardonnay that has been sitting under my desk at work.
• found homes for most of the Christmas presents that have been sitting in a pile on the lounge-room floor for two months.
• tried to buy, or even order, the ASUS F3JV laptop but was foiled by the lack of stock or expected delivery times.

Maybe that last one doesn't count as an accomplishment yet...

Soft reset: Press mode and lap/reset at the same time.

Hard reset: While the unit is off, press mode while pressing the power button. You should be asked if you want to erase all user data. Select Yes.

2006-Apr-03: Telephoned GME and they didn't sound at all helpful, "Its a new device and we've only had them for a while, send it in and we'll have a look at it"

A few minutes later I found out that a newer release of the software is available, so I've updated it from version 2.30 to 2.40.

2007-Jan-05: Oh yay, went over a speed-hump coming into Monash and the Edge popped out of the bracket, hit the road and cracked the display in half diagonally. Seems that the handlebar bracket is broken and won't grip the unit properly.

Called up GME (Australian support staff for Garmin) and I have to post the unit off to Sydney to be repaired.

2007-Jan-23: Rang up the Melbourne office of GME to get the phone number for the Sydney office of GME to find out what has happened to my Edge. "It couldn't be repaired so we're waiting for a replacement unit". Nice of them to call me and tell me, but that would be customer service and apparently that just isn't done!

2007-Feb-12: Posted off the broken mounting bracket to GME in Dandenong South to be replaced, and asked whether I can get a third bracket for the third bike. Australia Post charged $3.85 for the tiny little plastic bracket since it is too thick to fit through the letter sorter!

2007-Apr-16: Called up GME to politely enquire what has happened to the bracket. Seems that it had been buried somewhere with their returns. New brackets can be bought as "MKT64" for $20 from any seller of the Edge 305, the replacement broken one will be posted to me today.

GPSbabel

Seem to need to remove the module garmin_gps, with /sbin/rmmod.

Example commands to read the data from the Edge:

sudo gpsbabel -t -r -w -i garmin -f usb: -o kml -F 20070305.kml
sudo gpsbabel -t -r -w -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F 20070305.gpx