Lets start with the keyboard. The keyboard is quite comfortable, and I can almost type blind on it. I can feel where the keys are because they are slightly elevated and there is a small empty space in between the keys. Typing for a longer time is quite doable, but of course not as comfortable or as fast as a normal keyboard.

The available applications on the android market is filled with most of my basic needs. The most important one is the ssh client, which the app connectbot does damn well. It remapped some of the keys of the keyboard to give some easy access to the ESC or ctrl key. It also has copy support but that a bit cumbersome but it works.

The email apps are doing their work quite good too. There is the gmail app, which can only read the email from your G1 associated account. It does the usual threading just like gmail. Then there is the normal email app with support for imap and pop. I don’t use pop, but I heard it pulls in all email, like all pop clients. Pop is also the only way to have your full email available offline. Imap support is good, and also works with your second gmail account. There is a very small cache for imap, everything else gets pulled in over the air. It would have been nice to have the option to save imap and to use 2 gmail accounts in the gmail app because the email app does not do threading.

Cell reception is good, and haven’t really had problems with that. Wifi reception is decent. In Cologne there is pretty decent 3g reception, and i have to admit, I’m quite amazed by 3g speeds and latency.

Media wise i haven’t really tried too much, the mp3 player was decent but the crappy ear plugs and the lack of a mini jack let it go unused. I need to order a converter cable to use my brand new headphones.

Overall the system is quite responsive, and quite stable. Ive had two spontaneous reboots, and a few crashing apps, but that’s way less than on my p900.

The only thing i dont like about the G1 is the battery life. At tops it has lasted me around one and a half day. Which is short for me. My previous phone (se p900) got almost one week. But i wouldnt trade my g1 for a p900.

\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks,%
    citecolor=black,%
    filecolor=black,%
    linkcolor=black,%
    urlcolor=black
}

EDIT:
Hyperref seems to offer this feature by itself, by setting hidelinks. (Thanks yolila!)
http://www.tug.org/applications/hyperref/manual.html

This makes the links use colors inststead of boxes/frames, and sets the used colors to black. Fixed! Although this should be a standard convenience option imho.

Needed: Python, Pygame

Downloads: har_squares

[edit]Seems i have uploaded the wrong file… My apologies to the original writer. The right file is up now.[/edit]

server {
server_name     drakonen.digigen.nl;
if ($http_host = 'drakonen.digigen.nl' ) {
rewrite  ^(.*)  http://drakonen.com$1  permanent;
}
}

This can maybe be optimized a bit, but it generates a 301 status and redirects.

So, I started on a proper Nginx way to solve this and harness it’s power. By diving into the config I figured it out:

# the [a-zA-Z0-9] is for the greedy .
location ~ /~([a-zA-Z0-9]*)/(.*) {
root /home/;
autoindex on;
index index.html;
rewrite ^/~([a-zA-Z0-9]*)/(.*)$ /$1/www/$2 break;
}


Put this small snippet into the server config where you want userdirs enabled and enjoy your apache like mod_userdir.

Edit: made it work with subdirs
Edit: took advice of beate (see comments)

Lately I’ve been getting this error:

 E432: Tags file not sorted

This error is pretty annoying as it interrupts your work with an error. Googeling for this gave me no solution. Then I searched for files named tags (which are a lot), and I found a file in my home dir ~. I deleted that file and the error was gone.

The lesson was:
NEVER put a tags file in your home dir!

Anyway, this post was to let you see http://rst2a.com/ . A cool project to make converting ReST to html and PDF easy. It also has more styles available than default ReST. I’s easy quick and painless.

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 are the direction keys, 5 is a click. 0 (zero) is press and hold, the . key is release.

On the top are the mouse buttons: / for left * for middle and - for right. These select the type of button is used when you press 5.

Also, i can really recommend Opera mini as a fast internet browser. I’m currently running the beta for 4, Which is working great for me so far.

Found a somewhat better SSH client too. Its mostly the same as the previous one I was using, but i like this one a bit better. Still no page up and page down though so I can scroll in irssi.

But for most interaction you do not need registering either. At some web stores you can make an order by just filling out your personal information, no registering required. This making it easier for other people to contribute or buy. I plan on doing this on my new project, which I will uncover later.

I read some articles about how great OpenID is, and that this makes the login procedure easier, but why not allow anonymous comments on blogs (what it seems to be used the most for) instead of offloading your registration to an other party. OpenID is a big scam to give to phishers something nice to do and make their lives a lot easier.