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Dunno... if she had crabs...

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...

I need to work on my wording.

Oh, and Karel: you may not need to escape Belgium. From what I'm reading lately it may just dissolve around you. :D

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Well, our reputation is not altogether undeserved, but living up to it takes effort,and we abhor that... and I guess it kind of depends on the Innocent Tourist's attitude in the first place, of course :-)

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"Decompose" is more like it. It smells like that anyway.

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Sorry I've been absent a while! Been jotting on jaiku, working on the www.jablet.net project and dealing with life in general. What did I miss?

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It's that time again!

I'm off to Helsinki on Friday. I'll be there a week (with 2 days in Salo). I was hoping to get together with some of the maemo guys but it looks like that won't be happening-- during work hours anyway. So Quim or Ragnar, or anyone else, if you read this post and want to hook up one night just let me know. Wednesday and Thursday would be best.

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Sheesh, dude. There are special chatrooms for that kind of stuff. :p

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I thought this was my special chatroom. :p

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Lol, the phrase "hook up one night" does sound odd... :p

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Odd is in the mind of the beholder. :p

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Every time that thought crawls into your head, remember Apple's Think Different ad. We are the crazy ones.

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Greetings from Suomi!

That's Finland, to the uninitiated. ;)

A little snow on the ground, not too cold... but enough that I saw young guys playing ice hockey outside near the HEL airport.

I actually got some sleep on the way over this time so the 8 hour adjustment seems to be going smoother (7:20 pm here). CDG (Paris) airport was the usual mess. I'm going through JFK on the way home but that's only a slightly lesser evil.

Currently watching horse races in Finnish... lol. Tomorrow I actually have to work (on some prep stuff) but don't feel like sightseeing anyway. Hopefully though I can get in a little fun...

EDIT: O God, how surreal. The horse race is over, and they're showing a video montage of track prep while playing the original "Take This Job and Shove It".

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Just wondering, are you using Boingo MobileWireless on your N8xx? I found it to be very useful and cheap while in Europe (Germany).

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I have Boingo, but have not had a single opportunity to use it yet. In my travels I have not seen one Boingo hotspot (I saw no wifi at all at CDG). At DFW (home), there was one, but Boingo refused to connect to it.

That $7.95 monthly payment is beginning to look useless...

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Sorry to hear that Texrat. Here are just a few places I have found it useful: MIA, BWI, PHL, DTW, hotels in Munich and Wiesbaden.

Hope your trip will be fruitful.

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Thanks.

I've been a big proponent of Boingo, too, based solely on its potential... but I'm beginning to feel like those who have been complaining about it.

EDIT: just tried wifi in my hotel. 2 hotspots found. Boingo tried to log me into one of them (called waypoint) and I received a "connection attempt failed" error.

*sigh*

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Holy crap! Just connected to the wayport wifi-- maybe Boingo was just being naughty last night?

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ummm... spam?

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Okay, I need some help here.

I'm going to begin periodically recognizing outstanding contributers to the tablets on my internal Nokia blog. The object is to filter them out of this big noisy morass (:D) and then draw the attention of tablet program guys.

So post examples to this thread. A good example of what I'm looking for is the usbserial project (under OS2008) that was posted recently, as well as highlighting Arnim's wonderful game ports. I don't mean to slight anyone, because there are SO many amazing things being done, but I can't do them all... so I'll focus on truly groundbreaking stuff.

Thanks in advance!

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Some highlights that I think are worth mentioning, I'm missing a LOT of people here: :/

ag2 and http://nitapps.com/
fanoush and his initfs/kernel work
fiferboy and his UI enhancements
Jaffa/aflegg and mediautils/770Flasher
Johnx and Debian
Krisse and the Internet Table School
Milhouse and his work on bugzilla/SD booting (he's getting a t-shirt, so he's probably covered :p)
Penguinbait and KDE

I'll append some more if I remember any particularly glaring omissions, but it's at least a start. :(

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John Costigan (gnuite) and his stuff, especially maemo mapper, which is still THE tablet killer app (IMHO and by garage stats) : native (not a port), maintained on all hardware and OS releases, inventive and useful...

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ArnimS with all his games
ukki for the ports of games, ntfs support, rubybox and many other things.
Bundyo for game ports, mplayer browser plugin etc.
Serge for mplayer.
sgoerg for DVB-H. Not really commonplace but I think he has done a lot with his release.

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Thanks for the suggestions so far!

There are a few that are already well-known inside Nokia so I won't dwell on those much. My main goal is to shed light on the newer ideas that show great potential.

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Some bad news: I am having to curtail (and possibly stop outright) my internal blogging. A rather distressing turn of events I believe is wrong, am very displeased about and cannot explain further. Sorry.

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Sorry I haven't visited much. See post above. Plus I have been SWAMPED. Things should settle in about a month...

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Lucky you... if only I had that kind of visibility :-)

(Hey, this is turning into the episodic-return-of-the-undead-rock-stars thread ! :-)

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The Grateful Undead?

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Those are never grateful. Haven't you seen the movies ?

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Speaking of dead or undead... I am sick (the crud moved into my chest this morning) and I have to fly to Helsinki in 2 days.

Pity unnecessary but accepted.

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I wish I could get invited to Helsinki.

Berlin was really cool, though.

I hope you feel better soon, Texrat.

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nah, Helsinki is dark, rainy, windy and cold

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Hey, I like Helsinki... even when it is cold and mushy.

I just don't like flying sick. Last time I did it was just a 3 hour jaunt to Mexico, but MAN did I get worse. I don't even wanna think about how wretched I felt after landing.

So I'm loading up on time-release vitamin C, zinc, garlic, immune system boosters and coffee. Just gotta get out some hot sauce and chips and my cold regimen will be complete.

I pity the fool riding next to me.

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Maybe I lied. It is not yet that dark, rainy, windy and cold :)

But next week there is Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair so you won't get bored ;)

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Oh man, if only I could go... I'll have to let my boss know.

And this is my 7th trip there. It's becoming like a second home-- and when I didn't get to go in June, I actually felt out of sorts!

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It's not the place, it's what it represents: new and shiny things in the world of handheld computing. I might even be willing to move there for a year or two if it meant a chance to be In On Things.

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When I was in Helsinki for a few days, it was balmy and boring.

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I could never imagine being bored in a different place...

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"Apply for a job, then", the South European guy living in Helsinki said.

There is plenty of positions for excellent Maemo hackers. Applying is free. :) The first time I visited Helsinki was in a job interview trip paid by Nokia and they let me stay a couple of days more to know about the city that would become eventually my home.

I'm happy here. Sure there is more sun, "passion", better food and cheaper prices where I come from. But most of my conscious time happens while I'm working and having a near-to-dream job (definitely In On Things) as I have pays for all the rest.

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Hey, Quim, I'm meeting Tero Kojo on Sunday if all goes well. He seems like a really cool guy.

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Don't use coffee. Drink water instead to keep yourself hydrated. Use a downer like melatonin or 5HTP and sleep. When you wake up you're refreshed, so make sure you land in morning. Or at least not in evening while you slept in airplane.

Clothe yourself warm; sweater, good coat, hand shoes, scarf, gloves, tuque, warm shoes, thick trousers (I often put 2 on). Don't wear this inside plane yet. If you have good circlulation and good posture you get less cold as well, and staying in movement also helps. For increased blood circulation you can try hawthorn (e.g. tea), active ingredient rutine but look up about it first before using.

In Europe we might have some different strains of diseases like common cold and flu so boosting your immune system is wise. There are many options to achieve this; you mentioned some. I also recommend to not eat crap. If you travel more frequently you should have less problems because your immune system is already able to defend itself. Airports are also a good place to get all kind of diseases, and the airco on might also contribute.

Today I was grocery shopping. Someone was giving away papers on street trying to lure people into selling subscriptions. Now, on a business day a paper from kiosk costs 1,20 EUR while the extra thick saturday paper from kiosk costs 2,20 EUR. He was selling a week subscription for 3 EUR. Although a paper does provide backgrounds, news is faster spread via the Internet. We had some talks about when people used a small device to read news instead of a paper, but he was convinced it'd take 10 years till that'd take off, and he was arguing the paper provides backgrounds. The latter argument about backgrounds is a valid concern, on the Internet such is more scattered. I ahreed such change won't happen tomorow, but I expect it to happen quicker than 10 years. So if you buy a tablet with 24/7 connectivity you don't walk around with a paper, you can get your news from RSS feeds (and go to websites which provide news plus advertisements), you can even print it out later, or let it being read before you in car. The advantage is flexibility, speed, cheaper, portable, less environmental waste. So instead of paying 3 EUR a week (good deal actually but the paper was ****) you'd pay the ~13 EUR to your 3G provider. Hence, you're already getting back some of the money you put in your 3G subscription, and you read it on a good screen (compare to phone).