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After Claire went to look at the venue we had had a quick look at, we decided to look at somewhere else as the pavilion was way too small on the inside. We’ve now settled on the Village hall in St-Nicholas-at-Wade as it’s a lot bigger and has a kitchen etc. which will make the catering easier.

We’ve also been putting together a wedding list as a number of people have been asking for one.

You can find it here. You will need to create an account by clicking the link on the login page. After you have an account, login and add “Wedding Gift List” to the people you shop for. You can then click on the list to view it. You can reserve gifts you want to get or mark them bought. This stops people ending up buying the same things If you have any problems, drop us an email.

Claire has been busy trying to find a venue for our wedding party we’re having as no-one wanted to come to Vegas with us to celebrate

It looks like she has managed to find a decent size place in St Nicholas at Wade and the tentative date is 17th June, so pencil the date in your diaries. Probably best not to use your JES diary though as the calendar will probably crash and lose it

I’ve added a few more APs that I detected to the map and I’m now using my own simple code to generate the map rather than going out to another site to generate them. At some point I plan to add a table showing some summary data and a breakdown of manufacturers (gleaned from the MAC address), though this will have to wait as I have a room to decorate If anyone wants data they have collected added to the map, just email it to me, preferably in the .txt format the Wififofum saves as (just tab separated). At some point I’d like to have a submit form so people can upload data to be automatically included by work on the house precludes much work on this
Though quite a few sites already do this, none I’ve found seem to use google maps which is a shame as it looks a lot nicer than most of the icky maps around :).

Recently I bought a new PDA and a bluetooth GPS to go with it so I can use Tomtom without the huge mess of wires that my current GPS setup has. Getting it going with Tomtom5 has been a bit of a grind as things have changed quite a bit in windows mobile 5. I’ve summarized the instructions that I found in various places on the Internet below as someone else with a xda exec and tomtom with a bluetooth GPS may find them useful (and save some google time!) :)1) Install Tomtom
Copy the cabfiles from the CDROM to your PocketPC and doubleclick on them to install. There are four of them.2) Activate the hidden GPS settings thingum
Fire up a registry editor (eg http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/phmregistryeditor.shtml )
Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\GPS Settings
Delete the DWORD marked “hide”
Add a DWORD called “Group” and give it the value of “2″ (decimal)
The GPS panel will now show up in your connection settings.

3) Serial port magic (this is the special bit!)
1. Establish a bond with your GPS and select the checkbox for serial access.
2. In BT, select the OUTGOING port to 8.
3. In the GPS control panel, select the GPS program to 0 and make sure that the hardware one, is set to None.
4. Start TT5 and the GPS settings, select another bluetooth GPS, and you will see COM 0 free. Select COM 0 and close TT5.
5. At the GPS control panel again, now select COM 8 (before we set it up at 0).
6. At BT: select OUTGOING port to 0.
7. Back again to GPS control panel and select NONE.
8. Finally start TT5 and it should connect automatically. Wait for a couple of seconds and click the GPS settings and you should see it has connected.

The original post is here, I’ve copied it across in case it disappears at some point

Another thing I’ve been playing with is Wififofum which is basically a wardriving tool. It links up with your GPS so you can make funky maps of detected wireless accesspoints. One I made while driving round thanet is here. Shows how popular wifi is getting now!