March 12th, 2004
These measurements were taken at 8am-9am, 3/12/04 using fully charged
samsung e715. One thing that is apparent is that some underground
stations have very good coverage.
T-Mobile GSM (voice) service strength on BART Richmond line:
| station |
measured |
| between stations underground and above ground tunnels |
no service |
| South San Francisco |
2-3 bars signal |
| Colma |
2-3 bars signal |
| Daly City |
5 bars signal, 4-5 bars to entrance of Balboa Park
tunnel w/ additional 1bar dead zone about 1/2 mi east from daly city |
| Balboa Park |
1-2 bar signal |
| Glen Park |
no signal |
| 24th and Mission |
no signal |
| 16th and Mission |
no signal |
| Civic Center |
5 bars |
| Powell |
5 bars signal, but “no cellphone” icon
displayed and no service — maybe AT&T or Cingular network |
| Montgomery |
4 bars signal, but “no cellphone” icon
displayed and no service — maybe AT&T or Cingular network |
| Embarcadero |
no signal |
| West Oakland |
3 bars signal |
| 12th St Oakland |
no signal |
| 19th St Oakland |
no signal |
| Macarthur |
5 bars signal |
| Ashby |
no signal |
| Downtown Berkeley |
no signal |
| North Berkeley |
1 bar signal |
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March 12th, 2004
Negatives:
- in-service light blinks so brightly at night it lights up room, but
the phone can be turned face down to hide that.
- phone crashes when it goes to a big web page (with a lot of text,
no images). It also scrolls through text slowly in general.
- (added 7/21/05) LCD display starts to deteriorate after a year – I have two phones, one is unreadable most of the time, the other is still working ok.
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March 11th, 2004
This site now has trackback implemented via a mysql
database keeping state on whether trackback ping was successful and a
background process performing pings. It is used here both as a way of
citing references and hooking into prominent discussion. The
actual site postings are not submitted via a web interface, but rather
imported from text files which are edited with a user-friendly text
editor — the best way I like to edit text. Also, the article URLs
are textual not numerical and have no date component to them. There
is no idea of a separate “permalink” or “/archive” URL for a posting.
This naming convention appears cleaner to me.
I beg that this is not reinvention for the arrogance of ‘not
invented here’, but rather as a learning experience.
See also:
http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/
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