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Wednesday February 04, 2004
06:15 PM
A phone as automated annoyance device
I am still thinking about which phone to buy, am I am leaning towards a Sony Ericsson T616. I want to turn it into a push (as in "push me off the couch") technology.
Imagine a shell program I run like this:
% call "Laundry is done" 20m
In twenty minutes, my phone will buzz and I know to check on my laundry. Or:
% call "Parsifal is over-Go home" 5h30m
# use an absolute time
% call "Feed the cat" 0730
# an alarm clock
% call "Wake up" 0645; call "I mean it!" 0655
# call from cron
0 55 23 * * call "Daily Show in 5 mins"
# blind date rescue call
% call "911! Work emergency" 2100
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Should be fairly easy (Score:2, Insightful)
open( AT, "|at now + 4 hours" ) or die;
print AT q( echo "Time to walk the dog" | mail -s Alarm yournumber@vtext.com );
close AT;
The ericsson sounds like a plan :-) (Score:2, Interesting)
I dunno if the T616 has bluetooth, but the bluetooth between my 12" PowerBook 1Ghz, my T608 and my Palm Tungsten T2 roxorZ! Wireless Internet, iSync, way kewl stuff!
I also have Nagios [nagios.org] set up to page me, I set up qpage [qpage.org] to page me instead of using the email to sms gateway from sprint [sprintpcs.com] because I didn't want to rely on the internet being up for it to page me and tell me the internet was broken
andrew