Planete Fortier
This is a cool thing that I have done a few times except that my main drive everyday just seems to be an ad for North America's largest ISP: Linksys. But seriously, if you have a laptop with Netstumbler or KisMAC or even a Pocket PC with WiFiFofum running while you commute or drive around your neighbourhood, you'll definately come across some cool SSiD's. Drive around for long enough and you could probably find a name for your band or the core characters for your next novel.
BTW Massless is a great blog from Chris Wetherell, one of the guys working on the Google Reader project. Google Reader is a web scraper service from Google, I have started using it myself. The one area that screen scraping comes in really handy is it's ability to reformat text for use on Mobile device, on the iPAQ, I used to use Avantgo, but it was such a hog as it stored the page off line. Now that I use a BlackBerry, being able to see a live site in a mobile device friendly format is just as important but it also means I don't have to give 8Mb of storage space to view old news.
All this to say, Chris' blog is a good read and the Reader project is pretty neat.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
This is a cool thing that I have done a few times except that my main drive everyday just seems to be an ad for North America's largest ISP: Linksys. But seriously, if you have a laptop with Netstumbler or KisMAC or even a Pocket PC with WiFiFofum running while you commute or drive around your neighbourhood, you'll definately come across some cool SSiD's. Drive around for long enough and you could probably find a name for your band or the core characters for your next novel.BTW Massless is a great blog from Chris Wetherell, one of the guys working on the Google Reader project. Google Reader is a web scraper service from Google, I have started using it myself. The one area that screen scraping comes in really handy is it's ability to reformat text for use on Mobile device, on the iPAQ, I used to use Avantgo, but it was such a hog as it stored the page off line. Now that I use a BlackBerry, being able to see a live site in a mobile device friendly format is just as important but it also means I don't have to give 8Mb of storage space to view old news.
All this to say, Chris' blog is a good read and the Reader project is pretty neat.
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