rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Yes, over the last few months I have actively adapted my habits and purchases. Back when the issue of AT&T allowing the NSA to do wiretapping, and before I read these things today, I decided I would get off of Cingular and AT&T and move my services to tmobile for mobile data/cell and someone else for broadband.

Well, I swapped services a couple of months ago and am quite happy with the swap, both conceptually and personallyl. I also decided to upgrade my phone to a PDA/smartphone. I picked the tmobile dash because I wanted to support a generic phone device (the phone equivalent to a generic pc) and I also wanted to get linux on the device as soon as possible. Plus, it has wifi, EDGE data. 2 megapixel camera, qwerty keyboard, X, Y and Z, which satisfies some part of my tech obsession (even though I realize it is near pointless). However, the problem persists that I’m now using slowwwww as molasses Windows Mobile (notice I linked to wikipedia, this is the new 2007 habit rather than not linking). I did pick this though because I thought it would annoy me to the point of contributing time and development to getting linux onto this device, which is slowly beginning.

I believe though this landscape all might change once openmoko.org is released this month, an open source project around an open cellphone (there are 83 people in the #openmoko on irc.freenode.net chat channel right now!). Coincidentally, I will be in Taipei, Taiwan to present at “Open & Free: New Enterprise in the Information Age — An International Workshop” January 10, 2007 and will hopefully meet up with some openmoko people to figure out how to get open content onto these devices. I think this is a fascinating place to see open content. Go Open Mobile in 2007!

NOTICE: I didn’t say this is the year of open mobile or make a damned end of year/prediction/list.

In the bustle of the holidays, I think that the first public release of GEGL got lost. Well, please go and check out the first release, GEGL 0.04.

Pippin is rocking out on getting this next-generation core of GIMP done. It should be noted that it is more than just the GIMP’s future core, but also can be used for all different needs with the hope of growing the culture of gegl into other apps on multiple different platforms.

Bryce and I have discussed this “core” strategy for Inkscape as well as a great way to interoperate with other apps and as a great way to not focus on making a huge monolithic Inkscape. For Inkscape, we could have Inkcore which is the main guts of Inkscape, the canvas, etc, which other apps could then link to and we could get any number of other applications like Inkmotion (animation), Inkview (viewer), Inkpresent (presentation app), Inkpaint (for kids) and keep Inkscape as-is, as the primarily drawing.