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Telenav + Traffic = Sweet

Posted in April 29th, 2007
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If Jill is driving west on the freeway from Milwaukee to Madison at 68.3 miles per hour, while Bob is driving west on the same freeway going 63.9 miles per hour, takes an exit, drives several miles on backroads and access streets at an average speed of 37.3 miles per hour and eventually gets back on to the freeway to [...]

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New Employee Initiation

Posted in April 24th, 2007
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Right now I’m at work doing updates on our servers so they’re happy. Several minutes ago, however, things went a little off track..
I got to work from school around 10:30. I came into work, cracked open an ice-cold Mountain Dew, and busily prepared to get the servers ready for their downtime. Around 11:50 a fellow [...]

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Google Maps = Good Advice

Posted in April 23rd, 2007
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Google Maps has some solid advise for those who want to travel overseas (see step 24) :

“Pack your bags! This is gonna be a long trip!”
(3,938 mi (about 29 days 10 hours) to be exact)
~Jaker
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Parallel-blogging Universe

Posted in April 12th, 2007
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I just realized today that I really haven’t shed any light on my “other” blog that I have up.
At the beginning of the year I decided to split up content that I posted. Generic, interesting, technical, and etc. stuff would continue to be posted here at Jaker’s Blog 3.0, while “personal life” stuff (the stuff [...]

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Meanwhile, somewhere on the freeway

Posted in April 11th, 2007
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Currently I am on the road, somewhere in Illinois. I think I’m near Springfield. During this trip I’ve been connected on the web almost the entire time. Yes, there’s been one or two spots with no service, but Sprint had nothing either.
 All I can say is it’s pretty sweet to have web access in the [...]

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Fun with Sprint Phones

Posted in April 2nd, 2007
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After doing some research at work today, I discovered some commands you can use on almost every Sprint phone:
##786# - Life Timers, Phone Reset (##RTN#)
##3282# - 3G Data Provisioning (##DATA#)
##33284# - Debug/Field Test Menu (##DEBUG#)
##477# - GPS Configuration (##GPS#)
##288# - Bluetooth Version (##BTV#)
Some of these will require a Service Code or MSL. This code can [...]

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