I bought an HTC Magic a few weeks ago. One of the its coolest thing is the sheer number of apps in the Android Market. There are actually too many and finding the good ones requires lots of searching and testing. These are the ones I use the most so far: - Wapedia, which greatly optimizes the wikipedia display for mobile devices. - Pixelpipe, to upload media to Flickr easily.…

Last October I set an Ubuntu desktop for Carla’s family. We live very far away from them, so it was important that their system was resilient, otherwise it wouldn’t last long. They are all beginners in this internet thing, so installing Windows for them would have been a bad idea. And I was right. Things ran pretty smoothly, we talked via Skype very often, with no signs of virus or crashes.…

I’m still trying to learn C++ by fixing bugs. Well, the bug I wanted to fix in Ekiga had already being solved upstream (should I be happy or sad?), but I had fun trying to debug it anyway. Luckily I found another one to fix today. After 1h30m playing around with gdb and adding debug messages everywhere, I fixed a bug in Gnote where preferences were not being set unless you restarted the program.…