Mindless Fluffiness

Google charts (see http://code.google.com/apis/chart/ ) is infinitely better than MRTG but still, uh, still pretty bad.

I wrote a python program that you can find at http://fluffyhome.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/indigo/graphVars.py that goes through the Indigo database (you can see my preivios posts for how temperature data gets into this database), looks for all the changes to the mainTemp variable, and creates an HTML web page that calls googles charts to produce a graph.

An example graph is

It certainly possible that David Iredale, a lost hiker, would be alive today if we actually bothered to deploy wireless location systems.

Lost teen’s emergency calls prove futile – Yahoo! News

Of course, you can dial 911 and also die in the cold. A similar story from roughly the far side of the world.

Williams Lake Tribune – RCMP release more Armstrong details

Read more about it at http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/3910/

p2p call flow, originally uploaded by cullenfluffyjennings.

Draft call flow for the palgebra p2p sip stack.