Ronstone's Weblog

Click here, even though we have not install the found mouse

ronstone — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:42:58 +0000

Chalk one up for bad design. In order to install the found mouse, I had to click on a link. Well, the mouse was not active yet, and I could not send focus by tabbing.

In-call problems with the Apple Iphone (< 2.0 firmware)

ronstone — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:16:26 +0000

When I’m talking to someone, and I need to update their information, going to the phone contacts and selecting a person, there is no Edit option.

How come I can’t review my Recent calls list while I’m on the phone? (thanks, Wayne the Brain!)

Google Maps and Bad Traffic Lights Mashup

ronstone — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:12:37 +0000

Ok, I just came up with this trying to think of the first idea post I am going to write about. On a Google map, show shaded regions along with contact information for the DOT office to report traffic light that is way too short, or doesn’t give you the turn signal, even though you’ve driven forward and backwards over the switch 5 times for 5 passes.

Or hell, click on the intersection and send a complaint right then and there.

USRobotics Courier HST 14.4 External Modem

ronstone — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:07:21 +0000

Let’s take a trip down memory lane. I can’t quite put my finger on the year, but I remember it was time to bump up to 9600 bps speeds or greater. As a gift, I received a V.32 modem, which, only talks to other V.32 modems at high speed. You couldn’t connect to the de facto Courier HST modem. So, I save my pennies, and blew it all – all $650 dollars of it, on a brand new Courier HST modem (I still have it in a box).

Ok, now I’m achieving 2.4 kb/s download using Zmodem, hot damn! I think I was 15 years old.

Facebook Authentication using PHP Client 5

ronstone — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:44:44 +0000

Ok. So, I’ve written a test harness to punch out to Facebook’s site to authenticate yourself, return the session token, and retrieve your friends list. I even went as far as to creating a page to display you friends, along with a marker on a Google Map. Pretty easy stuff (it took me a few hours to learn the API, integrate Phoogle and format the page.).

So now what? Now I’m ready to write applications for the Facebook user base. But, there are already so many apps out there. Most of them use the Facebook canvas. The only think I like about this whole experiment, is that I now have a way to authenticate a person using Facebook credentials. Still … now what? (I’ve conquered Myspace too)

I’ve hit a hole-in-one in real, actual, golf

ronstone — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:30:37 +0000

The first thing on your mind, and everyone else’s mind, is, how do you prove it. I mean, the worst time to ever have reached this once in a lifetime achievement, would be alone.

Not me!

How about a having a guy who played on his high school golf team, who was really, really good, stand next to you and wonder, “I think it’s behind the flag”. Mr. Jon Fletcher. He worked at SARCOM, Inc headquartered in Columbus Ohio back in the late 90′s. We didn’t even let him tee off — jumped into the golf cart and raced down. Another golfer was walking up to our hole because he saw it with his own eyes.

150 yards par 3. I used a 7 iron (Wilson). Blacklick Golf Course.

Word got back to the Marshall, and he brought me a golf ball marked with Blacklick. I bought a wood statue in the shape of a 1 with a hole in the middle of it to house my new lucky ball.