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Maemo Hacking and Project Revivals
With such a cold wet summer, I thought I would spend more time hacking. Yet this year spare time is a scarce commodity and most of that time I find myself far from a proper development workstation. Fortunately with an Internet tablet in my pocket, I can at least start on learning about Maemo development.…
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Some Thoughts About Life and Consulting
Some thoughts to think about: Set expectations early. It avoids confusion and hassle in the future. Assertiveness instills confidence and helps achieve what you need. Smiling helps keep everyone positive and repels negativity from you. Show progress cause it encourages people. Review your goals and schedule time lines. This will make them concrete. Break up…
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Nighttime Rambling about the Weekend
Too busy to blog this long weekend. Still I feel a short update is in order for my readers. Went out on Friday with the Rudy and Olga, to a nice little place in downtown Toronto called West 7. Open 24 hours, nice Italian cuisine, tea candlelights and jazzy-lounge music; basically you can’t go wrong…
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At Least I’m a Full Employee
I’m not feeling particularly creative today. Or rather the hustle of both my professional and personal life is taking a toll on my creativity. Also sorting out stuff and figuring out a road map for immediate goals takes time. At least one of the stresses of whether I’ll work for my current employer more or…
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An Invitation to a Party
Somewhere out there in Wolverhampton, UK, four large gents and there large group of friends, followers and groupies are having one helluva party. Unfortunately I’m not with them. As Aq pointed out on a previous blog entry, Toronto is a bit of a ways. And in days of stellar expensive flights, I couldn’t afford such…
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Oops, I broke something
I broke my Internet Tablet today. Not physically. Rather I used Dolphin from KDE 4 for some file transfers yesterday. Me and my obsession running beta versions. And to add insult to injury, yanked out the cable without unmounting (safely removing) the device. Silly me. Well now the internal memory is read-only. Dmesg reports filesystem…
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Football (Soccer) Madness – A Quickie Update
Ok, I’m just gonna post a quick update as part of my resolution, to post daily. I reckon that my life is not as half boring as I make it out to be… I surprised my system admin at work that my N810, is in fact a Linux device. It is true that there isn’t…
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A Day in the Life of an Internet Tablet
While I’m writing this in Notes application instead of Blogger, I’m impressed with my new Internet Tablet. Not as powerful when not tethered to the seamy underbelly of the Internet, the N810 performs well as a handheld computing device. Even the thumb keyboard is quite comfortable. The device can seem a bit heavy at times.…
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Waiting for Maemo
Last Thursday I got the chance to play with a Nokia N810 at the TigerDirect store in Mississauga. A pretty nifty device, but the price was not so nifty. So I ordered one via the Web. And hopefully it’ll arrive sometime today. Yay! My initial review (after using for a few minutes) is that the…
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Updates to Life
I haven’t blogged about myself in a bit. So here is an update on me: @ Work: Have less than a month left of my probationary period at work. All the signs, indicators and omens point towards my staying on as a fully privileged employee of VisionMAX Solutions. I am very pleased with this situation.…