Stopped by the new Whole Foods Market supermarket in Oakland this afternoon to pick up some things that are hard to get in other places (e.g. Quorn), and also to add their free Wi-Fi network, which has a click to connect portal, to the set supported by Devicescape.

I successfully connected using my Thinkpad (running FC4 Linux because I’m too lazy to upgrade it), my Nokia N95 and the my still-modified iPhone.

My only complaint about the store was that there were no pastries on sale at the coffee bar. Their loss more than mine since I just opted for the coffee without the snack (probably better for me too!). I guess you’re supposed to walk around the corner to the bakery first, but if they want people to sit in the coffee shop area working and keep re-ordering, please include the option of buying some tasty pastries too 🙂

The screenshot was taken at around 7am this morning! Looks as though somebody messed up the GSM network time on the AT&T network last night. Not sure when it was broken (though my 5:25pm alarm I have to make sure I catch the bus went off again in the middle of the night, waking me up).

Just after taking the screenshot I called AT&T to report the issue (a simple mistake of setting the time to local time rather than GMT), and then at 7:08am my phone magically caught up with reality.

Having just spent a day or so working out how to get the iPhone’s UIKit push buttons to work, and connected to the Devicescape application, I thought I’d share what I had discovered.

I ended up using UIPushButton class for my buttons, though since this is the base class for a lot of the other button types almost everything here applies to those too.

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Just a short note to anybody who finds my site because they’re tracing spam received from addresses in the bluedonkey.org domain. Once again, the spammers have selected my domain to use in their forged sender addresses. I see some of these emails because they bounce, or are blocked by spam filters which are still stupid enough to send responses back to the sender address, as if that is ever valid on spam these days!

The folks at Barracuda Networks are top of my list for stupidity in this regard. You’ve made it into my filter list now so any email coming from your tool will be trashed instantly. For a company that is supposed to specialise in spam, you seem to be remarkably clueless on how to deal with it:

Just drop it – do not send it ‘back’ since it almost certainly didn’t come from the address in the ‘From’ line anyway, so all you’re doing is spamming somebody else who had nothing to do with it.

Been a while since I’ve posted anything – lots going on at work, and a short trip to Tahoe at the end of last week making it hard to find the time to post something here.

This photo, taken with the Nokia N95, is one of the shots taken in Tahoe. There are more from the N95 in the Flickr stream, and the ones from the 20D will come soon (I have to get them off the CF cards first!).

Also, I will have some more comments on the N95 soon too (although there are no shortage of other people reviewing it on the web at the moment, and comparing it to the Apple iPhone).

Looks like the folks over at FON managed to fix their DNS stuff yesterday and now I can once again view all the photos in Flickr, not just half of them.

Sitting at London Heathrow now waiting for my flight to San Francisco. After the fiasco of my Saturday flight here, I had only three days in the UK, and only one day in London – yesterday.

It rained on and off all day too, making it a little harder to capture hotspot information unless the hotspot was a cafe or bar, or there was one in range of it.

Perhaps five minutes after the photo was taken, Leicester Square was once again bathed in sun light.

One other thing I noticed while walking around: there were people lining up for a movie premier, and the security folks were walking the line asking if anybody had a mobile phone without a camera in it. It looks as though they were asking people to check in their phones if they had cameras. I hope that is just for premiers and not for all movies; if it does become common for all movies it will not come us a huge surprise if people stop going to the cinema.

So, after getting up very early (4:30am), making it to Stockholm’s Central Station just after 5am, and getting into Arlanda airport around 5:30am, I discover that my 8am departure to London, SAS flight 525, has been cancelled.

Worse than that though, all the flights to London that were on the board had been cancelled. I asked what was going on, and was told that SAS cabin crew were on strike and that I should go to the ticket desk to see what I could do about changing my flight.

One VoIP call to United and a long conversation with the SAS represenative revealed that SAS had canceled all flights out, and that my best option would be a flight to London via Munich, leaving around 4:30pm and getting me into London almost 12 hours after my original arrival time.

So, I’m spending the day here at Arlanda airport. I’m also running low on batteries for the laptop, and since finding power outlets here is such a hassle, I might just give up when it gets to 10% and read a book instead!