I am now Famous!

Like I said in an earlier post, I had sent a message to the inventor of the PakYak, Jim, letting him know I was building one, and thanking him for his hard work. He offered to link to my blog. I expected to get put into the “examples” page with the other people who have completed a PakYak. I made the home page! My name is misspelled, but, hey, I have been called worse.

Talk about pressure! Now I am going to HAVE to finish this project! Good thing I went tonight and picked up my jigsaw from a friend’s garage where it was being kept. I should be able to get the aluminum pieces cut faster and more accurately then with the hacksaw I was using.

I never thought I would be a DIY Boat Building Celebrity! Maybe I need to FINISH the kayak before I can make the examples page. I had better hurry so I can secure place number 6.

Automotive Navigation

I had a thought today. I went over to a friends house that I have been to 3 times total in the last 2 years. I don’t really remember how to get there.
I looked up his address on google maps, and printed it out.

I would like to get a GPS for the car. I don’t know how much work it is to key into your GPS where you want to go. I don’t think I would want to get directions in the GPS software on the computer, download it to a memory card, and load it into the GPS unit. I guess I don’t know how you key into a GPS where you want to go.

I think that I would be willing carry a keychain fob that has my address book on it. The GPS can read my key chain via Bluetooth or RFID type wireless connection. In the GPS, I select “get address from remote device”, key in the PIN for my address book keyfob, scroll through my addresses, and select one. Hrmm, I could even be in a friends car, and do this.

The keyfob plugs into the USB port of you computer and updates off of your address book.

I think if it talked bluetooth, the GPS could even log into your phone, and pull the address book off your phone. You would need to enter addresses into your phonebook. But with the data cables nowadays, there should be software that autosyncs to your outlook address book.

Anyway, this was my half-formed idea as I was driving to go pick up my jigsaw tonight.

I know you SoiSentinal and Stewie have opinions on this one! What do you think?

Cursed!

Somebody by the name of AJ commented on a post last night something about a “Mercury RetroGrade” in which stuff doesn’t work.
Well, wouldn’t you know. I fought ALL DAY LONG today with stuff breaking on my website at work that shouldn’t have broken.
I had code that has worked great for a year, hasn’t been touched in a month, start double posting today. No reason, just out of the blue.
I spent 2 hours chasing after a stray comma that affected IE and not FF – probably because I have a javascript debugger in FF and not IE. I have yet to figure javascript out.
It’s just been a WAAaaaa day.

AJ, Thanks but no thanks.
At least your curse is over tomorrow!

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