Into the Void

Experimental interface to the Bipolar Planet mobile community on Winksite. You can access the site directly from your mobile phone at http://winksite.mobi/bpplanet/m.

Want a free Bipolarplanet.mobi QRCode t-shirt? Be one of the first 5 people to join the mobile community then pop back here and leave a comment. I’ll need your email address so I can contact you for snail mail address - don’t worry, your address won’t appear in the comments.

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My XO Laptop is almost here. Watch this space for a
technical writeup and demo video.

—– Original Message —–
From: OLPC Customer Care
To: banth@…..
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 2:30 AM
Subject: Your XO Laptop

Dear Donor,
We wrote you several days ago to let you know that your donation is in our
shipping queue for the shipment of your XO laptop.
We are awaiting the arrival of new inventory so that we may ship your laptop
to you. We will send you another update in the next few days when we have
specific shipping information.
We appreciate your generosity and patience.
Sincerely,
OLPC Donor Services

Spoofcard.com

Oh, this is a fun site. What Spoofcard.com does is allow you to block your telephone Caller ID and disguise your voice. Apparently they offer a service for folks who like to play practical jokes on their cellphones.

No, not really. Where this would come in handy is if you want to display your company phone number when making business calls from your personal phone. You can record the calls and play them back from spoofcard.com’s web control panel. Very nice!

If you aren’t into putting together a 555 timer and a comparator for a barebones audio distortion circuit Spoofcard.com could be a lot of fun.

I think I’ll name my next dog
“Hash: b2e189abf85e809a51522cdb0e53083a”

I found Don Park’s site (see below, Identicons) while searching for 2D barcodes such as ShotCode and QRCode. Once I get everything tagged, life is going to be much simpler.

:-)

Ok, so Don had links to some other fun icon sites, and I’d like to share them.

This one, created in php by Charles Dark of Visual Consumption, uses the same concept but a different implementation to build a colorful 9-code “Visiglyph” of your IP address.

This avatar, also based on IP address, can be found at planetOzh. I like mine. It’s purple.

And here’s your identicon:

Technorati: Visiglyph Identicon security tech

It’s here, The Bipolar Planet® - Mobile Edition.

Since I got a data plan with the new cell phone I’m doing a lot more web browsing. My last cell phone had wireless so I didn’t bother with the data plan. Hmmm, it had a touchscreen too, and Windows Pocket PC rather than Windows Mobile phone edition. And was the size of a brick instead of the size of a candy bar.

Think about it: there are **scads** of middle-aged women driving around with handhelds looking to steal your bandwidth. Some of them want your files, too. Lock that wireless router, folks, especially if you share the C: drive on your home network.

Anyway, I’ve been spending more time on the mobile web and, well, sometimes you just have to say WTF. I got a .mobi domain and am distilling the entire planet into it. Sort of.

I’ll be adding content over the next couple of weeks. I’m evaluating chat sites now. This one looks ok.

Bipolar Planet® Chat
Chat with bipolars from around the world right from your mobile phone. This site is public and unmoderated. For more privacy, sign up for the email list instead.

In the name of the Turtle…

It’s the Bipolar Planet® email list! Email other bipolars - share files, pictures, and your unique take on life.

Powered by Yahoo!

I’ve been playing with the .mobi stuff and discovered that 2D codes have a use other than to count packs of cigarettes. I can put my web site URL into a QR-Code or a ShotCode, print it on stickers, and stick the stickers to things. Then folks can point their cellphone cameras at the code block and the URL will show up in their phone as a clickable hypertext link.

I was thinking I could sell my bumperstickers that way, put the QR-Code on them.

There is a nice java app for cell phones at QuickMark Mobile Barcode - Web Site QuickMark. This app also reads SemaCode. Some fun! QR-Code even has error correction built in so that if the code block is torn or partly obliterated the app can still get the information out of it.

    


Create your own code with the QR-Code Generator.

Another 2D code is ShotCode. This one is targeted for advertisers. You have the option of logging all kinds of information about the cell phone and user.

Posted to the .mobi directory at Mobinomy.com – For The Mobile Economy.

They are creating a portal for .mobi web pages. There isn’t much out there yet. Just me, shouting into the Void.

bipolarplanet.mobi bipolar and manic depression support.
Since 1995 The Bipolar Planet® has been a place for folks with bipolar disorder AKA manic-depression to share strategies for maintaining stability.
An email list is accessible by email. Mobile chat and bbs are in the works.
The site is not geo-specific, but it is presently in English.
The domain will be in place early this week. In the meantime you can preview the mobile site at bipolarplanet.com/m.
Also see bipolarplanet.com from your desktop.

Thanks for the link, Mobinomy!

P.S. Blogger.com wouldn’t let me post this from my Samsung i607 BlackJack.

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