Staticfree Blog

I wrote a Blosxom plugin that lets you geotag - that is, associate something with a specific geographic (latitude/longitude) coordinate - a post on your weblog using plain-text entry. It uses Google's excellent new maps feature to do the location lookup.

Blosxom Geotagger plugin

Now that it doesn't require great effort to geotag my posts, I will be doing so more often. You can click on the light-green "M" to get a satellite map of whatever I may be talking about.

Though this post has nothing to do with my current location, I've tagged it with the location of Geekhaus - for show.

At Geekhaus, we have an electric stove that is very fond of producing smoke. Most likely, that's due to its age and general uncleanliness, but that's besides the point: it sets off our smoke detector frequently. Thankfully, our smoke detector has a cute little button (which we jovially entitled "STFU") that silences it for a short period of time. Alas, this is located on the detector itself, so it's often hard to reach.

So, what does a slightly intoxicated geek do at 2:00am? Run up to his room, rummage around for telephone wire, his Dremel and soldering iron and install a remote STFU button. It's mounted on the doorframe, right next to the stove for convenient silencing while cooking. And it is this reason, amongst many others, that I love living in this house.