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This little script says that the user agent on my LG Optimus phone is Safari.

Okay here it is. I am in a bit of a rush I am sorry. You will have to fix a few things like putting in your own screen background. It has an fvwm script for monitoring nodes called "System Status". Generally Button1 is for starting things and Button2 is for configuration. It is set up to use ssh-askpass to set your ssh passphrase.

Got to go. My wife is insisting I sit down for christmas dinner.

Bone alignment? Do you really think your bones can get out of alignment without leaving their sockets? If you are having problems with your bones go to your doctor, not a chiropractor.

Bones don't generally have sockets to fit into. Believe me. I broke my humerus in July last year and I have the X-Rays to prove it. Speaking generally our bodies are held together with string. The tension on the string varies dynamically and tries to keep everything fitting together.

When I started getting knee pain from cycling I consulted several doctors. They all suggested I wrap a bandage around the knee and wait for it to get better. It didn't.

Then I went to a bike shop which caters to the racing crowd and they helped me get the bike fitted properly. They sold me some gear to help with that. They also recommended an osteopath to see. This particular person is a bike rider too, and understands the injuries you can get.

So between the bike fit and a bit of help from the osteopath my condition improved. A doctor who did a lot of bike riding may have helped as well, but I wasn't lucky enough to meet one of those.

More to the point does this mean that the iphone API provides no way to scan for hotspots? If that is the case I am glad I didn't try to build this list with an iphone.

I am running Illume (a version of Enlightenment) on my openmoko and developing applications for it. It took me a while to get going because many of the example applications are out of date and the APIs change quite fast. It doesn't help that documentation is either hard to find or non-existent. The toolkits are vulnerable to buffer overflows as well. Sometimes it is best just to stay off the heap while Elementary is starting up.

But once I got a few applications working I found enlightenment quite conducive to rapid application development.

The openmoko software projects are entirely community driven. The hardware development is only done by educational institutions now I believe. Parts of the software stack will most likely survive beyond the openmoko project. The Enlightenment team are working for Samsung on smart phones for example. For now, I have a great phone which I like using and which I can develop for, so I am happy.

I coded in java on the tram for a couple of months. Then I got into writing openmoko applications in C with the Enlightenment toolkit. I work with a terminal and nedit. On a bigger screen I can keep them both visibible with overlap. On the 701 I keep both maximised and tab between them. Its not ideal but it is worth the small form factor.

It runs ubuntu 9.10 now. I have it loaded with cross compilers for the openmoko and atmel. As well as java (on an SD card) and gcc, etc. I get a ton of work done commuting by tram. (yay for distrubuted version control). The laptop takes one half a small laptop case. It is light enough to carry around on the weekend.

I have taken it on two holidays. Tasmania and New Zealand. When away I back up our two digital cameras to a Sony video camera with a 30G hard disk. The eeepc is ideal for moving files around between different USB devices. It is also great for watching movies stashed on the video camera.

I get my X-Rays in DICOM format from my public hospital. I convert them to PNG and post them on my blog. I must have a DICOM library loaded because gimp will read those files on ubuntu but it refuses to load some of the files, in particular the more recent ones.

Do you have any suggestions for reading DICOM which don't involve running windows and using the DLLs on the CD from the hospital? Thanks.

I have posted this on /. a few times in the past so...

$ grep -v 10.1.1. access_log.* | grep access_point_names | cut -d" " -f12- | grep Linux | wc -l
          180
$ grep -v 10.1.1. access_log.* | grep access_point_names | cut -d" " -f12- | grep Windows | wc -l
          331
$ grep -v 10.1.1. access_log.* | grep access_point_names | cut -d" " -f12- | grep Macintosh | wc -l
            83

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and it is quite buggy. Much more than previous releases. I have had to go back to the NDIS wrapper to use my WG511 PCMCIA wifi adapter. I haven't had to do that in years.

My observations.

I spent four years riding my bike to work, then on July 30 I crashed on a tram track and broke my right humerus. So I have to spend three or four months off the bike. The tram commute is easy and direct (40 minutes or so). I started out buying books at minotaur but the laptop beckoned and frankly there is nothing else which can make 40 minutes go just like that for me.
 
My code is free and available on line. Using a DSCM tool makes it easy for me to push changes to other systems and to the web server. I am currently working on a simple MMO built around Java3D. It is the hardest thing I have done for years and it is a great way for me to exercise my aging brain cells. I feel sorry for people who can't write software. When I travel for work I can plug my laptop into the power and eat up the hours with ease. It makes the seven hour leg to Malaysia go that much faster.

Dont get me wrong. The code I work on in my private time is my own. Come to think of it... a lot of the stuff I do at work is my own...