just went through iphoto and realised that over the last 15 weeks of using it for importing all my pictures from my camera, i have taken 4800 images. thats on average 320 images a week - or 45ish a day! madness. (thats not counting a few hundred cameraphone images)
back in dublin after christmas at home in limerick. heading to newry tomorrow for a few days. back in finland on jan 8th.
on the opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum:
i saw fans labyrinth yesterday. it was amazing - violent, scary, enchanting, historical, imaginative and so on. one of those films that affects ones mind when its over. i wandered around dublin in a bit of a daze afterwards. (last time that happened was for “requim for a dream”)
also saw the justin timberlake / snl “dick in a box” video. (youtube link / nbc link). fantastic, funny, löl etc.
ha’penny bridge seen from the millennium bridge in dublin. a foggy day.
dublin 2006.12 flickr set. (uploading as i go along)
the website for a design competition “greater helsinki vision” has tons of downloadable maps/stats/city planning documents. essential to take part in the competition - but also super interesting for everyone else.
off again. going to ireland in several hours. still need to pack and sleep. back early january.
i got a nokia 770 a few weeks back and ive been messing around with a few applications on it. it was great to use when i was away last weekend and didnt take my laptop with me - i could surf away and watch some converted avi files.
so now with me heading off home for a few weeks i decided to put gaim on it so i can use instant messangers on it when i can find an open wifi point.
there is no official release of the gaim programme for the 770 - but there is a few ports of it done by other people for the 770. so i try one a few times only to realise that it was for a pervious version of the firmware of the 770. fair enough. so i go looking for the version that is made for the current firmware.
now im not a linux expert by any means, in fact the amount of time ive messed about with linux systems is most likely under 5 minutes. so, let me see if i get this straight. to download the gaim application for the 770 you have to tell it where to get the files online - so you enter in the “repository” information. easy enough it would seem, except that its tedious to do by the simplest method and not entirely easy using the other methods:
now there are 3 ways you can load those (and other) urls:
1) click on the title bar of the application manager, then tools, the application catalog and then key in each url
2) edit /etc/apt/sources.list from an xterm window (you’ll probably need root and an editor like vim, or use echo >>
3) ssh to the nokia and then cut and paste from the website! this is the easiest i think.
okay, so no3 seems the easiest. until one reads the text that tells you how to carry it out. nothing on that page made sense. almost every point raised at least two questions.
so i gave up and wrote this instead. i remember back in 2000 or so when i got a handspring visor - i searched the internet for sites that had applications for it - i found some but quickly became bored with most of them. same happened over the last year or so when i got my first s60 phone. when i look online in various sites for applications for the 770 i get a lot of flashbacks to palm and s60 application hunting - except with this one i have the added workload of having to spend hours working out how to install the application, in the end i just give up and ask dave for help. (help dave!)
(just sorta figured out that going through the tedious copy/paste on the 770 makes it easyish to get the repository list into the application manager. so im getting there - but still, i know the 770 is meant for the early adaptor - and as such is a bit rough around the edges, but to require so much of the user is a bit much to ask - and dont even get me started on the whole upnp thing)
i want a wii.
currently watching some random french movie on tv5. its over in a few minutes. still waiting for a happy ending. (erm - i just searched for the above link on imdb. and found out that the main point of the film wasnt what i thought it was. (one of the main characters has hiv - i thought (using my poor french) that she wasnt able to have babies). hmm.)
almost time for bed.
saw bond again last night. as good as the first time.
signed a contract with my first customer for my business.
i spent some time working out my income budget, pension plan, savings accounts etc. for next year. now i need to sort out how much money i actually spend on random rubbish.
berlin is still in my mind.
looking forward to going home in eight days time. wooo. looking forward to a break from the internets.
2007 will be a year of not much travel. i intend to get the world to come to me.
i had more to say but i cant remember now.
