Saturday January 24, 2004
Cellphone Mapping
Virgin Mobile Phone

As mentioned two weeks ago I went on a business trip to Florida and decided to mapblog the trip using GPS and Cellphone. Here's the entire cellphone mapping article, the resulting trip maps, and the cell mapping summary.

It worked great! The first two days of the trip I didn't have computer access and couldn't check up on how things were working. I was relieved to finally see the maps and all of the messages were getting through.

I didn't track the trip coming back, mostly because I thought we'd be taking the same route (we didn't). There's some thoughts about future features and also a mention of remote SMS weather monitoring on the SMS Fun page.



Couch Vegetable

Couch Vegetation

Couch Vegetation closeup

Out for a walk in Florida and ran across this discarded couch on the edge of a parking lot. For all of the vegetation it still looks kinda comfy.



Dirty Dog

Ran across a middle-earth name translator today and it says: 

    Dear Jerry Halstead,
 
     If you were a Hobbit, your name would be Bugrin Rafter  
     and if you were a (male) Man, your name would be Taenyc  
     and if you were an Elf, your name would be Amon  
     and if you were a Dwarf, your name would be Magan  
     and if you were an Orc, your name would be Rugdish  
     Your nearest Tavern might be called The Dirty Dog  
     and your sword would be called Naraithas

I started off the day debugging a CSS problem between The How Zone and IE 5.5. Not having 5.5 and not really wanting to go through the pain of reverting a windows machine back in time I searched the net for another solution. I remembered reading this article late last year but couldn't remember where it was.

I found that Ryan, over at skyzyx.com, has been kind enough to provide downloadable standalone versions of IE 5.5, 5.01, 4.01, and 3.0.

The bug turned out to be IE's failure to properly handle (or ignore) print media css files. Grumble. Checking out Ryan's homepage led to the middle-earth translator. When it said my nearby tavern would be called The Dirty Dog, I just knew they were psychic!

Some other fun/interesting links: