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Ubuntu for MIDs and Netbooks

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:15:00 +0000

At OSCON, Canonical presented their interpretation of the MID and Netbook scene. With all the recent news about Intel's Moblin transitioning to Fedora, you'd think Ubuntu was out of it. You'd be wrong! Here is a slide show of the slides to the talk:

Thanks to Peter Goodall, who gave the talk, for giving permission to post these online. I will update this entry when the "real" slides go up.

Update: Pete provided the link in the comments, so I'll promote it here! Download the original slides at: http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/3462

Waldo Photo...

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:51:00 +0000

Looking through the OSCON08 photos on flickr, I saw myself. This was taken during the Intel drawing for a MacBook Air (hint... I'm in the red at the right of the image):

Photograph copyright James Duncan Davidson.
http://flickr.com/photos/x180/2704907549/in/set-72157606297321213/

PHP Women?

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:25:00 +0000

Thought this might amuse some folks. I took this shot at OSCON08:

OSCON

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:00 +0000

So, I'm at OSCON this year. This happens to be the 10th aniversary of OSCON. Portland is a pretty nice town, although the tubes get a little slow in the hotel and conference center due to all the geeks! Funny how GPRS can be faster than wifi :)

So last night Legion Of Tech (http://www.legionoftech.org) had Mark Shuttleworth as the speaker. He spoke on his experience of going into space and Ubuntu. It was open to audience participation and Mark did a good job fielding the questions.

Here I am asking Mark about his recent quote regarding the use of QT within Gnome!

N810 and OpenMoko

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:00 +0000

What does the N810 and OpenMoko have in common?

They are both small and portable and run linux.
They both use Gtk+ as their native ui toolkit.
They both run mono!

That is right, we are on the eve of some pretty cool happenings in the c# world. We can run our beloved c# apps on these portable Linux devices using the same high-level development environment that we have grown to love so much.

Are you ready for the revolution?

If you have an N800 or N810, check out http://www.mono-project.com/Garmono. If you aren't so inclined to build it yourself...stay tuned for an announcement on the test repository where your device can automatically install all of the mono dependencies you need!

Something to whet your whistle (The mono cairo circles sample running on an actual N810):

Winner!

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:46:00 +0000

So I actually did it. Amazing isn't it. This writing endevour has changed me. I have seen into the minds of my characters and they have held my hand and brought me through it. I started writing with zero plot, zero characters, zero reason to even write it -- except for one thing: I wanted to see what would happen in my mind if I let it wonder. There were weird twists and turns I never would have predicted. It could not have been written any other way.

MC and others, thanks for the experience.

Writing on the road

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:29:00 +0000

Here I am hurtling down the road at close to 80 mph and I'm typing! This is quite an experience. Of course it is nice to have pervasive inet access through it all. It allows me to do this blog! :) But I should really get back to my novel..I'm a little behind at this point, but I hope to catch up in the next few hours.

Back?

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:34:00 +0000

My plot is taking me to some really great places. Someday I should visit them for real! After taking a couple of days off, I'm now sitting ahead of the curve again. NaNoWriMo...bring it on :)

Plot Thickening...

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:39:00 +0000

Ok, so now over 12,000 words and the plot is beginning to thicken up. That is good and bad. Good, I'm able to now have a consistent reason for the MC's existence...Bad, I can't change the direction too much without totally trashing the prior 12,000 words. Not that I'm all that concerned, but I want to do this as well as I can.

Also, I'm writing this novel to be PG or less, so the reunion between Warren and Francene did not really grow into that many words...shame really.

NaNo in China!

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:42:00 +0000

So I'm now over 20% done. During this process my MC (main character) is recalling time spent in Beijing, China. Unfortunately for me, as the author, I have never been to China and know very little if anything about Beijing. Luckily for me, there is Google! So, I spent some time today doing a little research. Don't worry not too much, but things like common Chinese names and current issues that affect Chinese people, especially in Beijing. I found a few links:

This first link is sad, it is about the plight of the common person there, it was done by a British journalist...oh don't worry, it definitely got some time in the novel: China's Olympic Lie

This next link is interesting...did you know there was an Underground City in Beijing? I didn't but it plays well into my plot!

So it is onward push...less than 40,000 words to go!

First few days

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:36:00 +0000

I've been writing a novel. It seems like the plot may finally be taking shape after 5888 words! This has been really fun so far. I'm not allowing myself to plan it too much. This is an exercise in brain diarrhea. It does seem though that the main character, which only got a name 2000 words ago (Warren Smith), is going to be some kinda of secret agent man. Ah, typical you say? Maybe, or maybe secret agents are really everywhere :)

November as WriMo

noreply@blogger.com (Jae) — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:30:00 +0000

NaNoWriMo needs no introduction at this point, does it? It is National Novel Writing Month, and this is a "me too" post. It started in 1999 and has grown into a huge self-eating frog! heh So I'm going to do it this year, I promise. Right after I tweak my theme some more :)