Posts

  • 21st
    • Nokia N95 → I drooled over the OpenMoko Neo1973 recently, but it still has beta hardware, alpha software, and an ever-slipping release date. Meanwhile, my Sony-Ericsson K750i is literally gathering dust inside the screen (the casing must be leaking) and the control stick is jamming. Plus, it’s old tech, and I’m a hardware nerd. Hence the Nokia N95. 5 [...]
    • News of the World scumbaggery → Hi there, I’m a feature writer doing a background piece on N***** W****, who was in your year at ***** *****. Her girlband F***** A***** are currently starring on X-Factor. I’m looking for people who knew her well or have pictures of her to get in touch; there’s money available for the right information. Contact me [...]
  • 26th
    • Dreamhosting → Dreamhost have been through another rough patch this year. A break-in, a DDoS, and unfortunate rants from ex-customers. The latter appeared on Digg with its claim of 83% uptime, so I decided to check that. I got a free account with HostTracker and got them to ping the site once every 15 minutes. They send [...]
    • Freedom Universal Keyboard → Look at this: Quite cool, right? Well, yeah! It’s the Universal Keyboard from Freedom Input. Here are my notes: The Nokia N95 is officially unsupported but it mostly works. It won’t type in some text entry fields in J2ME apps like the contacts list in Google Mail, but at least the main body of the email can [...]
  • 27th
    • Robert Jordan killed by amyloidosis, Wheel of Time killed by CMF → I wrote in an email recently that I have so far refused to watch Lost because the series is being strung out by the writers so that it lasts as long as is profitable, rather than as long as the story goes on for. I call it CMF: Cascading Mysteries Failure. It’s when a popular [...]
  • 29th
    • Fake Chinese Laptop → In a shop called Loja Chinesa (”Chinese Shop”), an outlet of all things cheap, plastic and Chinese, I found this: The non-qwerty keyboard layout is understandable, but the number row reading 123456712? They use Hindu-Arabic numerals even in China, don’t they? I can’t remember what the sticker on the bottom right read, but it wasn’t “Microsoft” [...]

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