Irregular Verbiage

Via UserFriendly‘s Link of the Day I found the website of Peter Callesen who makes “Paper Cuts” – I’m so impressed; they are beautiful.

On a more technology related note, Tim Bray talks about the elephant in the room in discussions about ODF vs. OOXML. I haven’t read either spec but I have a strong emotion disposition towards one (which has nothing to do with my employer); anything I say about the whole subject could be labelled biased

This morning, Sean Moss-Pultz sent an email to the Openmoko community mailing list with the schedule for the release of the Neo1973

The time table looks like this:

• 2007-02-11 Phase 0: Free phones sent out to key community members so that software starts to be written “ahead” of the main launches. Also community websites (including a wiki, a bugzilla and a planet aggregator)
• 2007-03-11 Phase 1: Official Developer Launch, anyone can buy a phone for $350USD + p&p (<£200)
• 2007-09-11 Phase 2: Mass Market Sale: “At this point, we hope that your mum and dad will want one too”. At this point also the 2nd gen device will be introduced

I suspect I’ll have bought one before the end of March, there’s a few things I definately want to write for it.

I’m really looking forward to this, I really hope it’s a big success.

It’s been a good few days, this weekend I saw the Rivers of Sound live at the Wedgewood Rooms, ate curry with Pete and some of his friends (in celebration of his birthday) and now Em’s mum (Carole King – an artist living in Wales) is visting.

In between I’ve done a little more on a software project that I’ll talk more about here when it’s nearer to actually useable.

Although the buzz on the technology blogs I read seems to be quite keen on the iPhone, if you can’t install third party software on it [1,2,3] then it won’t interest me much at all.

There’s a comparison of the OpenMoko and the iPhone but to me it’s all about the software (and the openness).

If the iPhone is not a smart phone, what would you call it? Maybe a closedphone? It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. I guess it doesn’t matter to me much – I’ll be buying something else instead

P.S. I’m not saying that I don’t think the iPhone will sell extremely well – I guess I’m just not it’s target audience – the last portable music player I bought plays oggs as well as mp3s

Yesterday a few friends came around for a poker night, a few of the people had never played before so I explained the rules and the jargon gleaned from watching later night poker on the TV. Inevitably I was the first person to be eliminated. d’oh!

In other news, by looking at the logs for this domain I’ve discovered that it’s on Google’s first page if you search for scary men. Is Google trying to tell me something?