Those of a non-geeky nature should look away now
One of the pleasures of buying a new bit of gadgetry is the honeymoon period where you discover all the obscure little features it has. With my new N95 I've been playing about with it's built-in 2D barcode scanner, which gives you a quick way of getting web addresses, phone numbers and short bits of text into the phone. You just point the camera at a printed (or on-screen) code and the phone does the rest.
Of course, this relies on people publishing the codes, at the moment they're not exactly as ubiquitous as they need to be. To this end, Nokia have provided a tool for generating your own. So if you've got the facilities, here's the code for beckysweb.co.uk...
Valerie suggests getting this printed on a t-shirt and wearing it, to help the next time someone doesn't know who I am at a tranny outing, but thinking about it, that has two problems.
1) The t-shirt would probably be too distorted by prosthetic boobs to be machine-readable.
2) Can there still be any trannies of taste and breeding out there who don't know who I am!?!
But maybe I'll print it out and stick it on my wall at work, to get a bit of that hiding-my-secrets-in-plain-sight thrill.
Oh, and for those of you that think that this marks a new low in the geekiness of my blog posts, I say...
Of course, this relies on people publishing the codes, at the moment they're not exactly as ubiquitous as they need to be. To this end, Nokia have provided a tool for generating your own. So if you've got the facilities, here's the code for beckysweb.co.uk...
Valerie suggests getting this printed on a t-shirt and wearing it, to help the next time someone doesn't know who I am at a tranny outing, but thinking about it, that has two problems.
1) The t-shirt would probably be too distorted by prosthetic boobs to be machine-readable.
2) Can there still be any trannies of taste and breeding out there who don't know who I am!?!
But maybe I'll print it out and stick it on my wall at work, to get a bit of that hiding-my-secrets-in-plain-sight thrill.
Oh, and for those of you that think that this marks a new low in the geekiness of my blog posts, I say...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does things like that. My bloke Flickr stream is full of little references to Rachel, which all stop short of me screaming 'Look at me, I'm a trannie!' :-)
I can't comment on the geek stuff in this; for someone in IT I'm amazingly uninterested in gadgets. The only time I've upgraded my mobile in six years was so that I could inherit my daughter's pink one when she ditched it earlier this year. Using a pink mobile is more 'hiding in plain sight' of course :-)
I posted a QR code message about a month ago, but it seemed to pass everyone by...
I think those codes are datamatrix, but that Nokia page will create QR codes too. I guess Nokias can read both too.
There's a good discussion about the relative merits of QR vs. Datamatrix here.
Print it on the back of your tshirt?
I did read your code, but I already knew I was a geek. I read yours too Miss K, but as is often the case with me I could think of no worthwhile comment to make.
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Incidentally, would you really like all these men staring at your boobs and photographn them?
They still teach morse in the SBS.
using cw, the finest and most elegant of modes :-D (although I confess I had to check the punctuation, don't normally use that much!!)
Sooooo Alli... do I find you on QRZ.com?!? ;)
Sandie Dee (2m0??? hi hi)
QRZ.com - nopeneverheardofit
and my oops, I missed the "s", I should have said "barcodes" ;-)
What's my prize? :-D
Sandie Dee
(QRZ.com is an amatuer radio callsign lookup site, I guess you're not that sort of operator then! B-) )
A stately home (sod 'all)
:-D
(apologies to Becky for blog-jacking)
But are they taking a photo of the shirt or your boobs? :)
Great idea though!
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ps. Nothing like a regular pattern on the t-shirt to emphasise the underlying shape.
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