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Month: January 2009

High Android Phone

Published January 17, 2009

For some reason VMware Fusion identifies the T-Mobile G1 phone running Google's Android as 'High Android Phone'.

VMware Fusion, for some reason, identifies the G1 as ‘High Android Phone’ when connected via USB. OS X only sees it as ‘Android Phone’ and Vista (once the drivers are installed) sees it as both ‘Android Phone’ and ‘HTC Dream Composite ADB Interface’.

(Thanks to the generosity of a friend I’ve recently come into possession of a T-Mobile G1 phone running Google’s Android. It’s only costing an extra $20/mo for unlimited data, so I’ve been using full time since I received it. It’s really nice, and I’m sure I’ll write more about the phone, its OS, and the dev tools later.)

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Cold Night for Riding

Published January 15, 2009

Bianchi D.I.S.S. on a very cold night time ride around my neighborhood, no flash.

Being one of the coldest nights of the year (thus far), I decided to go for a bike ride. After a bit over a mile I had to go back in because my fingertips were becoming incredibly painful. At a few points while riding right into the wind my head became quite cold as well, but other than that I was quite comfortable. Something other than the waterproof / cold weather Gavia gloves and the thin head covering thing I have are definitely required if I want to do more riding like this.

(Here’s another version of that same photo, with flash.)

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x0xb0x #888 Is Complete

Published January 14, 2009

Completed x0xb0x #888 with red and black plastic bank/mode knobs.

That’s that. x0xb0x #888 is done. Now I just have to sell it.

Part of me hopes that this is the last x0xb0x that I ever build, but not the last 303 clone. More and more ideas have been swimming around my head about making a newer, better version of something similar to, but definitely not, the x0xb0x.

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BlackBerry Curve 8320

Published January 14, 2009

Danielle is looking at acquiring a BlackBerry Curve 8320 with service via T-Mobile. When purchased via T-Mobile directly it costs $99 after rebate, but when purchased via Amazon it is -$99 after rebate. Yes, a negative number… Amazon has really low prices on phones, for some reason.

The intention is to sign up for the phone and then cancel the data plan, leaving her with 600 anytime minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, and a 400 text minutes per month for $39.99.

So, that gets to my question… I’m curious if any of you have any opinions about this phone. BlackBerries in general seem to be pretty decent devices, but do any of you have an opinion on this one?

If you are wondering why she would get a phone generally designed for data but without a data plan, the intention is to have something which meets X requirements:

· Doesn’t flip or slide open, as these mechanics and their associated flexible PCBs / cables tend to fail before the rest of the phone.
· Has actual tactile switch / electromechanical buttons, and not touch-surface buttons, as these tend to become less (or overly) responsive over time.
· Has a full keyboard, to facilitate text messaging.

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Tapioca Pudding

Published January 13, 2009

Home-made tapioca pudding. I think I whipped the egg whites a bit too much before folding them in.

As mentioned yesterday I made tapioca pudding. It’s quite good, but as the texture isn’t as smooth as I’d hoped for; I think that I whipped the egg whites a bit much before folding them in. The recipe said that they need to be stiff peaks, which is what I did. Unfortunately this made folding them in akin to stirring shaving cream and warm ice cream.

That said, it tasted very good.

However, if one lets some dry on the inside of a cup, say, while the cup sits on one’s desk all day at work that cup will smell of death. And by death I mean rotting eggs. And not rotting eggs in the good, wholesome sulfur dioxide fart-esque smell. No, just rotting animal parts.

I will definitely be making this again in the future.

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Busy, Busy, Busy…

Published January 12, 2009

A very small owl sitting on a branch outside of the window at Rochester Mills Brewery.

I’ve been really, really busy lately. This isn’t a bad thing, I just haven’t had enough time to get everything done that I’d hoped to. Lately I’ve had the MMBA website move, really bad weather on Saturday, shopping (REI, IKEA, Target, Meijer, etc) on Sunday, work then the MMBA Metro North quarterly meeting today, and now I’m making tapioca pudding.

I still have to find time (hopefully tomorrow) to fix a friend’s NAS, finish up the x0xb0x, and whatever else comes up. For now, though, have some moblog photos:

· A very small owl sitting on a branch outside of the window at Rochester Mills Brewery.
· Bags and carts at Ikea on Ford Road.
· Partially eaten veggie burger from J. Alexanders in Somerset.
· The urinal at J. Alexanders is a nice, old style model.
· After buying gas I bought this very large apple fritter.
· I do wonder why this person doesn’t just disable their touchpad.
· Partially eaten rosemary bread with jalapeno havarti melted on the top.
· Waiting for biyrani at Rangoli Express #1.

Also, this evening’s fortune (6):

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Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (BANSTYLE) #4: Tue Dec  9 00:07:44 EST 2008
 
Snow Day -- stay home.
 
c0nsumer@banstyle:~>

Funny that, considering the current forecast. A snow day would be rather nice, actually.

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MMBA Site Moved

Published January 9, 2009

Michigan Mountain Biking Association web site (mmba.org) soft launch after moving to nuxx.net for hosting.

Here’s the result of something I’ve been working on for the last couple months. The new Michigan Mountain Biking Association web site has launched, and it is now hosted here on my server. This is the soft launch of the site, as we should have a new unified theme / design across the main site, forum, and other places soon. However, we wanted to get the new site itself up and running because the old one was causing us a few problems.

I’m really, really glad we got this done. Now, time for bed.

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