Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

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The all new me

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This week the new HTC Magic became available in Norway, and at a quite reasonable price. If you didn’t know, it is a mobile phone running the Android operating system. This is interesting in many ways, one of them beeing that getting started with developing applications for it is easy as pie, and years easier then working with Windows Mobile.

I am considering buying this phone, but before I do make a purchase I have decided that I will make progress developing an application for it first. The Android SDK allows for this easily without having to have an Android device. I’ve decided to write an application that will let me study Spanish on the go (or sitting still at home), a flashcard/quiz type thing. The plan is of course to make it so that the same application can be used to learn other languages, but my motivation is Spanish at first.

For now concentration has been elusive, but I haven’t given up. After all, I really want that phone, which is my motivation, developing the application is my justification of buying. Saying “I can develop applications for it” doesn’t really mean anything if it isn’t true and if I never do it. I’m tired of buying technology with the intention of doing something, and not following through.

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And there it was again…

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I have lost count of how many times I have installed WordPress and WordPress MU over the years. But I think I would easily exceed the digits of several tens of people. This morning I impulsively installed it again, on this very domain on which it has been installed at least ten of those times. I decided that I would keep it in English even though my previous, and possibly longest running, blog was in Norwegian. I need some change, a fresh start, some new impulses and something to do.

If you were looking for some link til some Ubiquity script for searching the Norwegian phonebook I have moved that to a disclosed location. I can’t really say anything other then feel free to play with it. Chances are I will not be making any changes or updates, that’s just how things work for me. But if I do, it will probably be mentioned here in this blog.

Hopefully I this blog will be taking for over the next few months. It might end up like so many other blogs of mine – dead before even getting it’s feet wet, or it might even become the best thing since sliced bread. I’m not aiming for either, so hopefully it will land somewhere in the middle there.

Things you might expect to read about is me ranting about technology and the way I see it, also I might write about my favourite toy this season, the Adruino microcontroller prototyping platform. Experiments include, but are not limited to, squarewave monosynthesizers and digital thermometers.

But honestly, who knows what I will write about. Even though I am a geek through and through I might just end up writing poetry about the Norwegian seas or publish data about healthy, yet tasty, cooking experiments. The only thing that is certain is that I am a inquisitive pseudoscientist with alot of time on my hands.