Creeva’s World 2.0

So last night was a work in progress/real world sce­nario time.   I was going to be out with a few hours to kill, and I didn’t take my Mac Book with me.   Dur­ing my hour com­mute to work I lis­tened to a cou­ple episodes of “Cranky Geeks” with John Dvo­rak.   In the after­noon I had to go onto the lab and do some test­ing with users.  While wait­ing for the users to show up I decided to take my N810 onto the guest wifi.   While doing that I installed Vim and the GPE suite.   I’m going to be work­ing on get­ting GPE cal­en­der to sync with Google Cal­en­der.   I should have real­ized that vim was a com­mand line only util­ity since it was a port.  I don’t think I’m going to stay usin­git though, I know vim is the more friendly vi, but I have a severe hatred of vi.   I think it’s the dif­fer­ence of grow­ing up with the extremely easy to use Microsoft Edit in DOS that vi seems so hack­neyed to me.

One thing that was an issue for me yes­ter­day was I installed the “Cam­era” appli­ca­tion from the repos­i­to­ries.   I installed and saw how a pic­ture would look, then I clicked the folderesque but­ton on the lower right hand side and that locked up my N810.  I tried to hold the power but­ton down that didn’t do any­thing, after about 5 min­utes of wait­ing I yanked the bat­tery.   In that 5 min­utes I went from 75% of my bat­tery to 25%, so what­ever hap­pened taxed the hell out of the CPU and stor­age space.   Need­less to say that appli­ca­tion is not stay­ing around.

I then went up to Ver­mil­ion and met with my sis­ters and had some pizza, after that I wan­dered to the local library and decided I was going to attempt to get some work done.   I man­aged to login to my work’s exchange web­mail, I wrote a full blog using maemo-wordpy, and used it hap­pily as an MP3 player lis­ten­ing to my pod­casts.   Writ­ing a longer length blog post took some time com­pared to what it would take with a nor­mal key­board.   How­ever, I man­aged to get it done and my typ­ing skills are definetly improv­ing on the N810 key­board as a whole.

The annoy­ing things I found out yesterday.

• The Ver­mil­ion Pub­lic Library’s Pub­lic Wifi doesn’t allow IMAP — grrrr no Gmail via Claws for me at that time
• Canola won’t “save” songs to scrob­ble at a later time, if it doesn’t have a net­work con­nec­tion you are SOL — grrrr — does any­one know if maemo scrob­bler will save before submittal?