Archive for June, 2006

Cafe Americano

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Those of us like me - who never learned spanish - might find this food dictionary site very  very useful at dinner time at guadec - especially if one is equipped with a Nokia 770 or some other mobile internet device (if you don’t mind the perhaps unwanted extra geek ‘appeal’ ;-))

Guadec time

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

We arrived yesterday, after a slightly delayed flight (”technical reason”) from Helsinki. Arriving at Barcelona airport we took a taxi to the place. We successfully used maemo mapper to find our accommodation as the driver was not familiar with Vilanova i la Geltrú. “Ah, GPS.. perfecto!”
Today is the warmup time, meeting people and trying […]

Learning to deb

Monday, June 19th, 2006

So I’m sitting at the University of Helsinki CS department again, been a while

This time it’s a Debian packaging school organized by Lars Wirzenius - I figured this will be an useful skill to learn since I deal with themes, icons etc that also need to be packaged..

English for Planet Maemo ;)

Monday, June 12th, 2006

So, a beta of the Nokia 770 OS 2006 is out. It’s cool.
Among other nice things it has is a full-screen thumb keyboard. After playing with it for some time I tweaked the settings a bit to make it suit even better for my own use. I thought I might share them here, maybe someone […]

Mugshot and such

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

I think I see the point now. Took a while to get over that “WTF? Redhat? Web services? Social networking and ajax?” -thingy, but in a way this is not much different from what I have been thinking about a lot lately as well.
There’s a lot more software these days than what’s we used to […]

New jobs

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Looks like there are quite a few new positions available for Gnome and Linux hackers here at Nokia. Check out Carlos’ blog for more info.