Month: November 2009

  • My new n900

    After what feels like forever, i finally have my N900. So here are my first impressions.

  • Nokia FAIL

    I’ll start this post by pointing out that I am a Nokia fanboy. I love Nokia devices. I’ve only ever owned Nokia phones, and it is no secret how much I love my Nokia internet tablets. But boy are Nokia frustrating.

  • My first woodturning commission

    This week a colleague approached me to ask if I could make something for him.His house, which he’s been renovating, still had an original doorbell from whenever it was built. The door bell was a round metal plate with a button in the middle, inset into a wood ring which was screwed to the wall.…

  • Turning a burr

    Burrs are very interesting bits of wood. They are odd growths that occur on the surface of tree trunks. I’m fascinated by what causes them to occur, since they are basically a mass of knots. Wikipedia on burrs Burrs typically have all sort of faults within the wood. But the wood is so dense both physically and…

  • Witter – a basic python twitter client for Maemo

    So I wrote last week about developing a basic twitter client. And this week I got the main stuff done, and wanted to share the code example here. 

  • Developing applications for Maemo

    When I first got my nokia 770 I intended to develop for it. I had a few ideas of what to write, but discovered apps already existing for just about everything I could think of. I also discovered that it’s not that easy developing for maemo.