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Archive for September, 2007
Russell, from worldlabel.com, is a great guy. He has helped support Open Clip Art Library and is sponsoring the CC LiveContent project that tvol (Timothy Vollmer), tannewt (Scott Shawcroft), bovinity (Alex Roberts), paulproteus (Asheesh Laroia, and rrrojer (Rebecca Rojer) have all touched in some way. Russell has started a blog, and he posted this great item today:
First, an abandoned 12-week-old macaque develops a friendship with a white pigeon in China…read more.
Then, as reported by Reuters news, Washington Post and other major news media outlets, A lonely baboon in a private Lithuanian zoo has adopted a chicken he saved from certain death last month and the two have formed a fast friendship. Watch the baboon take care of his new friend.
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Cool, Asheesh today in the office, flashed one of the openmoko’s at Creative Commons, and made his first free phone call
Pretty cool! Competition is heating up! -
Great news! Hopefully this means that zimbra will fix their one flaw - lack of a free powerful hosted service!!! Finally, please, lets have good caldav!
Ok, I spent a little bit of time today trying to get my OpenMoko working, especially after prodding from some from my previous post and some inspiration from this great post.
So, I flashed and updated my kernel, rootfs and u-boot to the latest and greatest. All works except the interface is squished into an approximately 200 x 100 pixel window with the UI Starting image below all of this. Of course, I filed a bug and hope this gets resolved. In the meantime, I’ll just re-flash the thing every weekend now that I got my openmoko hacking workflow figured out and try to do my part by filing bugs and so forth to keep on things…sooooo soon I will have my open phone and chuck this POS phone I have now.
Regardless, I got my OpenMoko to dial out and left I nice message on some phones That is cool
(CAUTION: I cuss like a sailor in this video Lu took)
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hooking up my openmoko…time to switch phones!
Check out some pics of me and Lu’s trip to Mexico City. We realized at the last minute that we weren’t taking any photos, so I went on auto-shooting…granted we are no “Camera Faces” (get the ref anyone?):
Our last minute trip to Mexico City went well. Hurricane Dean wasn’t an issue anymore by the time we arrived inland Mexico. There were only some rain at night and actually it helped cleaned out the pollution quite a bit. This was my first time visiting a Spanish speaking country. Jon was learning it on the fly. Communication was not that much of a problem because people would tried their best to understand when I spoke in English with some gestures. In many ways Mexican people are humble and helpful.
Thank you for Leon and Jorge! You are great hosts and look forward to seeing you in SF.
Remembered the first time I went back to China after four years living in US, the first a few hours I felt I was in a foreign land. And being in Mexico City, all the suddent I had the feeling that I was in China. Very strange. It might because of seeing those incomplete and disfunctional buildings in Zona Rosa made me nostalgically thinking about China. I often see them as urban monuments. Later we found out that a lot of them were actually ruined during the earthquake. That is very different from China’s broken-tail projects. Yes, Mexico is very different.
Metro
Subway system in Mexico City is serving a great population. And it’s often packed like this. There were mobil pirate DVD sellers roaming between train carts. They had backpack-speakers and played videos with one of those portable LCD DVD players.
Subway stop sinages were made up with icons that represent the areas, so that illiterate people can also understand.
This is a sinage in Anthropology Museum.
Attribution to Lu. Who is a pirate?
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