A few months ago I moved halfway across the country and started a new job with a new employer in the Baltimore area. It’s been a bit hectic. While I do have a couple of more focused blog posts in the pipeline, I wanted to get something up here before I let imnotpete.com slide any more.
So, major updates. Bought a Dell Mini 9 the very last day they had them. Very nice machine so far, though I have the same keyboard problems everyone else has: quote key is way down by the space bar, pipe and backslash are Fn-keys now, and I keep accidentally hitting the trackpad while I type, which then repositions my cursor. On the whole though, it’s not terrible – it is essentially my daily driver now, and I’m writing this post on it.
Finally got the companion software for my Sun SPOTs installed. Hopefully will have some time now to experiment with them and J2ME. Thanks for the gift, Bruce!
I managed to brick my wireless router during an upgrade of dd-wrt (my fault, not theirs). That was fun.
I just discovered dealextreme.com. Anyone have any horror stories about them, or are they trustworthy? I realize it’ll be cheap Chinese knockoffs (like the iFone and SCIphone), but at those prices it doesn’t have to be perfect.
I’m really looking forward to the 18-19 new Android phones Google mentioned. We plan to jump AT&T’s ship and go to Sprint when our contract is up this winter, so I’m very hopeful Sprint will get one.
I’m back in the old trap of reading 300 books at the same time again, so they take forever to finish. I’m very slowly working my way through Godel, Escher, Bach, as well as Animal Farm and Thoreau’s Walden. I’m also rereading Look to Windward, by Iain M. Banks, which is perversely going very quickly.
Oh! Good news! The Blogathon has been announced for this year (after a hiatus last year), so that’s great news. I will most likely be participating (probably benefiting Child’s Play again). More news forthcoming as we learn more.
I think that’ll do it for now. Look forward to more posts again now that I’m largely settled in.
