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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:10:03 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.844998°
Longitude: -88.088488°
Altitude: 0.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.844998,-88.088488

“You know, it would be pretty sick if you could get an ip address
that’s the same as your phone number like (630) 286-1275 and an ip of
28.61.27.5. I guss with IPv6 it would be impossible though.

The pstn should use hostnames instead of phone numbers too. We all
know that’s coming soon… maybe.”

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Good times at Gottlieb’s shack

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:43:03 +0000

http://maps.google.com/?q=41.785076,-87.953896

We spent some time listenting to records and some CD’s then we went to Walgreens before learning that Samantha’s house was almost broken into.

I had to bring the thread back to life.

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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:41:48 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.785076°
Longitude: -87.953896°
Altitude: 91.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.785076,-87.953896

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There has to be a better way.

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:50:14 +0000

Well, I started this “find me” category because I thought it would be cool and I guess it just dawned on me that xGPS could send emails with Google Maps links to your current GPS coordinate and WordPress could receive email and post it immediately. I had some problems at first, but figured it out fairly quickly. Thank God WordPress only posts emails that originate from administrator’s email adresses. At first I didn’t know that; I’m the kind of guy who likes to just jump into projects without really doing a whole lot of research to begin with. Of course I eventually figured it out.

Then there was the problem with these GPS postings crowding out my real posts on the homepage, but a plugin called “Simply Exclude” took care of that part for me. Now my problem is that the Google Maps links show up as just text on the posts. I went back and made links out of them all, but it’s somewhat unnerving because when I send an xGPS email to a regular email address the link shows up just fine. Perhaps I’ll write a Wordpress plugin that recognizes links based on analyzing the words in your post and automatically makes them for you…

I’ll get around to that later (if I ever do). At the moment I have a math final coming up next week, a test and a final paper for Cultural Anthropology (hundreds of pages of reading), and a web page for my aunt’s cottage that I need to finish. And don’t forget all the typical IT problems at work on top of the FTP/Web upload system I’m developing for them.

So I guess I’d also like to point out that tracking someone’s GPS updates via WordPress is kind of inefficient anyways. That’s why I bought the “PathTracker” app from iTunes, but it too has it’s flaws. For me it always seems to freeze permanently which forces me to uninstall it and reinstall it… but I chose to just keep it uninstalled. You can find that app and try it for yourself at http://pathtracks.com/. I will say that the author was nice enough to get back to me on my email about it, and there is a new version out now so maybe it’s better than the version I had installed. I’ll reinstall and update it eventually and post my results.

New Ideas

Mobile-Admin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:58:17 +0000

I have something in the works that relates to this category. I don’t
really have time to get into it but I’d like to build off of the Erica-
utils findme binary (which doesn’t work anymore). I’ll get back to you
imaginary people about it over the course of these upcoming months.

In the meantime I’ll probably organize this category a little bit
more. Probably by way of a php script to rewrite the posts for me.
Beyond that I don’t know… [ADD kicks in here] holy $h17 there is a
monster of a storm rolling in! Literally, I’m not talking about my
blog – the weather is threatening.

But yeah, I’ll get on here and sort things out a bit soon. The rest of
the blog needs work too which is more pressing, but also a whole other
post.

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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:24:27 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.843210°
Longitude: -88.065374°
Altitude: 189.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.843210,-88.065374

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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:23:21 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.837367°
Longitude: -88.064918°
Altitude: 190.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.837367,-88.064918

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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:22:25 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.829366°
Longitude: -88.067292°
Altitude: 191.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.829366,-88.067292

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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:21:02 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.820842°
Longitude: -88.071650°
Altitude: 173.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.820842,-88.071650

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My GPS Position

Mobile-Admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:19:44 +0000

My GPS position is:
Latitude: 41.816817°
Longitude: -88.072151°
Altitude: 166.000000 m

Google Maps link to my position: http://maps.google.com/?q=41.816817,-88.072151

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