David Carrington

Scouts night hike

Our Scouts came joint 7th out of 17 groups from around the district on the night hike on Friday. This is pretty surprising, since we had to rush back by skipping 2 bases with a shortcut. It turns out that very few teams went to all 10 bases, with one team only managing 6. My legs have recovered now, but my sleeping pattern is still a bit off.

Prawns in tikka masala sauce with pilau rice

In an attempt to expand my cooking abilities, I bought a bunch of spices and checked out a recipe for pilau rice. I’m very slowly working on becoming a better cook. Perhaps the next part is making the sauce by myself too – as I’m pretty unlikely to go catch my own prawns.

GSM stumbler failed

My attempts at making my GSM stumbler application run while my phone is sleeping has not gone well. The latest version doesn’t seem to pick up any changes of cell tower at all while the phone is off, and takes a pretty long time to discover that I’ve moved. I’ll have to look into this again.

Here’s my first step at creating a user interface for my GSM Stumbler Windows Mobile application:

It’s very basic right now. All it does is pull out the phone’s currently connected cell tower and logs it to a text box on the screen. This data can also be sent via SMS or HTTP to my website to update my current location.

Also today, I created a PHP script to update my current Jaiku location. This isn’t in place yet, but I eventually intend to integrate this into my GSM Stumbler application. Future ideas include: looking up the location as human-readable format on the device, detecting multiple nearby base stations and their signal strength (for triangulation) and more Jaiku support.