Started off the day with church at Salem again. After that met up with the family for lunch at TGI Friday's, which was good. On the way to that my brother discovered that
Google's WAP interface doesn't do phonebook lookups like their regular site. We both poked around a bit, and discovered no easy interface to do so anywhere. So I spent part of the afternoon learning wml, and using a a cgi and fun regular expressions take a phone number or name query, access google's regular phonebook search, parse the results, and hand the phone back a deck with a card for each result. Spent a bit of time debuging it, and now has caching so it doesn't annoy google either (shouldn't do more than one query per search). Seems to work very well, although I had to start limiting to 15 results as full name and address details for places like Bethel tend to get too big for the phone quick. One odd thing is during testing I noticed my phone would disconnect from the network during periods of inactivity, so it'll be interesting to see how it actually interacted in a few days when I have itemized billing records. Neither the phone's minute count or the web page list any noticable amount of minutes used today, so I'm sorta curious how that worked out. Anyways, I also rearranged stuff in my office at home a bit. Got the computer stuff from a big 5ftx5ft pile to along one wall, which was good. Also dragged the decent speakers from my bedroom into the office along with the receiver and mp3 player dock and just ran speaker wires to some cheap speakers in my bedroom. At night I just want background music and don't really spend any other time in the room, so it's nice to be able to listen to music with a full range system (and as loud as I want) while hacking away. Other than that spent some time reading a magazine (yes, a geeky one - my favorite part was the review of the new
JVC GR-HD1 High-Def camcorder, but no, I'm not dropping $3,500 on a video camera). That's pretty much it for the day, although I will say that
Where in the world is Dave? needs to show up on some searches.