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.