This is what you see if you press the “Find Dale” button on my TV remote control.
(Well, actually the “Teletext” button… cos I wasn’t using it, and there isn’t another button that makes any more sense!)
The on-screen-display adds a message at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds, saying my last recorded location and when I was there.
People following me on twitter may have noticed me talking about setting up a new home media server: a small Linux server that has become our Freeview box, PVR, home photo album, and music server.
And now it’s set up, it is surprisingly easy to do amazingly useful, and not-at-all annoying things like this! 😉
In my defence, I stopped just short of making the script poll for my location and display an on-screen message whenever my location changes. Which would’ve been very cool, but probably drive my family nuts. So I compromised with a script that runs when you press a button on the remote.