blog.bookworm.at

ICS style Segmented Control for Android

2011-11-18T04:25:00.000-08:00

I updated the segmented control I posted earlier and put in on githup. It's now more customizable, and it uses the minimalistic, futuristic design that we see in Android 3 and above.

https://github.com/bookwormat/segcontrol.

Paying for Spotify or Grooveshark? Still undecided...

2011-11-18T02:00:00.000-08:00

I’m thinking about paying for one of these hip music streaming services that everyone talks about. There are two interesting ones that are available in Austria. Both are very good. So here is a list I made while trying and evaluating Grooveshark and Spotify:

Music Library

Spotify has a clean but incomplete library. Grooveshark has a much larger but messy library. If an album is on Spotify, you always get the full album, each song proper tagged and in the same quality (which, if you pay, is very good). Grooveshark has much more music in its library, including rare indie bands, bands that do not license to streaming services, and cool remixes.

But often the songs are not probably tagged, and as a result, if you pick an album, it often contains duplicate or missing songs. All music on Grooveshark is uploaded by its users. There is no way to upload your own music to Spotify.

Here is a good example: When I was a kid my father gifted me a rare jazz album, where the pop musician Sting plays Police songs with Gill Evans and his band. Spotify does not have this album at all. Grooveshark finds all the songs, but the second track appears 3 times in the album, and one is missing the track number. So I had to create a playlist and reorder the songs in the way they belong. Here is that playlist.. Spotify simply does not have that album.

Radio and Recommendations

Spotify has a miserable radio and recommendation feature. They have genre radio and artist radio, but it only works on the desktop clients and it cannot be trained. If you get Music recommended from Spotify, it’s usually a bad guess.

Grooveshark has genre and artist stations. You can put an arbitrary number of songs into a playlist and put the playlist in “radio mode”. Grooveshark will then create a station based on all the songs in your playlist. While listening to the radio, you can thumbs up/down a song to improve the song selection. Grooveshark radio also works in the free version and you can use it on mobiles.

An important part on how you get recommendations on both services is through social integration, thus.

Social integration

Spotify let’s you share songs via facebook and the Android mobile app has a share intent, which means you can share with everything you like on an Android device. Spotify and Facebook are very close. In fact, you need a Facebook account to even log into Spotify. On the Desktop clients, you have a list of your facebook “friends” who use Spotify, and you can pick one of their public playlists. There is a cool feature where you can edit playlists together with your Facebook-contacts.

What really kills sharing via Spotify for me is that it does not have a web client. Therefore, if someone clicks on the link in your share message, they are asked to register with facebook and download a client application. Sorry, but either someone can click on my link and the music starts playing, or your sharing feature is just crap that pollutes the web with links to propritary protocols.

Grooveshark let’s you share with Facebook, twitter,... If someone clicks on your link, she is forwarded to the web client and can listen to your song/album/playlist instantly, or bookmark it in her web browser.

Grooveshark let’s you find people over Facebook and you can subscribe to them and listen to what they hear etc. Each song has a discussion that you can participate in.

Apps/Clients

Spotify has neat looking desktop apps for Linux, OS X and Windows. They also have mobile clients for Android and iPhone. And a bunch of more. In fact, they have a client for every platform out there. Except for the biggest one: There is no client for the web.

The same for Grooveshark: They also have clients for all devices. The apps are very well implemented and fully featured.

There are two main differences when it comes to apps: The first is that Grooveshark’s main interface for large screens is a web client. It’s a very good one, almost completely written in HTML, only using a invisible flash component to stream the music. And I’m sure the flash requirement will fall soon, as it is simply not required anymore to stream music in modern web browsers. Having a web client means that you can listen to your Music from any computer, without downloading something. It also means that the OS X, Windows and Linux versions get the same amount of support from the Grooveshark developer teams. Simply because it is the same app on all desktop platforms.

The other difference to Spotify is that Grooveshark’s mobile apps are banned from both the Google Android Market and the Apple Appstore for iPhone and iPad. While Grooveshark itself is a legal service (it works pretty much like YouTube), the large music publishers (members of the RIAA) do not like it very much. And both Apple and Google need to suck up to the RIAA in order to get licensing deals for their own music services.

If you’re on Android, this is not much of a problem. Just go to http://mobile.grooveshark.com/android and install the app from there. But if you are using an iPhone or an iPad, you need to “jailbreak” your device in order to install the iOS application.

And else...

Grooveshark has a much better free offer than Spotify. But I’m evaluating the paid services here, so I did not write anything about it. But maybe it’s a good idea to pay for Spotify and use Grooveshark for free? Not sure about that...

Most differences between the two services come from their approaches to music licensing: Both Spotify and Grooveshark pay royalties to content owners. But while Spotify first licenses and then puts the stuff online, Grooveshark uses the YouTube model: Every user can upload anything, and an Artist can the either claim the rights to its music and make a license deal with Grooveshark, or they can file a take down notice. The latter will lead to Grooveshark removing the songs from their database, but of course users can upload it again. This also explains why Spotify’s library has large gaps of missing content, but is very clean and accessible. And why Grooveshark has everything in a messy ill-tagged MP3-soup.

Support for ActionViews in Actionbar compat

2011-11-15T05:40:00.000-08:00

ActionBar is a UI pattern that has found its way into the Android SDK in version 3.0 . If you want to support devices running Versions lower than 3.0, you need some code that falls back to an alternative implementation of the actionbar for devices running up to Android 2.3, and uses the existing one in 3.0 and above.

There are various projects that do this. http://actionbarsherlock.com/ is a fully functional implementation that is, as far as I know, fully compatible with the 3.0 APIs. The only downside to actionbarsherlock is that the project is an extension to Google's Android Compability Library, which means you have to use Actionbarsherlock instead of the ACL. It's another dependency.

Google recommends a simpler, but also more restrictive solution: They offer a piece of sample code that they recommend you use in your project. They call it ActionBarCompat.

One of the things that ActionBarCompat does not support is Adding an ActionView to the Actionbar in a phone device.

I need such an ActionView in my project, but other that that, ActionBarCompat works fine. Fortunately , the code from Google is not very complicated, and it is quite easy to add support for this.

Just replace ActionBarHelperBase.java with my edited version. Then, if you provide the android:actionLayout attribute to your menu definition, the view in your layout will be added to the ActionBar instead of the icon.

One thing that I did not implement is MenuItem#getActionView(). This is the method that allows you to retrieve the ActionView from code.

So if you want, for example, add a listener to your view in code, you have to search for it using Activity.findById(), after the actionBar has been created.

e.g.


View myCustomView = this.findViewById(R.id.mycustomview);
        final Activity activity = this;
        myCustomView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
              /*...*/
            }
        });

Astrid / Tasker

2011-11-04T03:19:00.001-07:00

[ #android ]

I bought the Power Pack for Astrid and the Astrid Locale Add-on a few days back. I use it with Tasker to make Astrid notify me based on my location.

I also got the Tasker/Astrid combo to remind me of task as I change my current location. For example, If I add a task "don't forget to buy milk" to a list "@Move" in Astrid, I will get a voice notification when I'm leaving from where I currently am. I also have lists for @work and @home.

Here is the exported Tasker profile I use to check if I my current location changed:

Profile: Anon (34)
Time: Every 2m
Enter: Anon (35)
A1: Get Location [Source:Net Timeout (Seconds):100 Continue Task Immediately:Off]
A2: Variable Set [Name:%LOC_CHANGED To:1 Do Maths:Off Append:Off] Variable Set [ %LOC !~ %LOC_LAST ]
A3: Variable Set [Name:%LOC_LAST To:%LOC Do Maths:Off Append:Off]

I check my current location every 2 minutes via net location. NET is not as accurate as GPS, but it does not use much battery. If the location changed, I set a variable %LOC_CHANGED

And here I use the new state to make Astrid notify me (by voice) of any task that are in a Google Task List I named "@Move":

Profile: Location Changed (36)
State: Variable Value [ Name:%LOC_CHANGED Op:Is Set Value:%LOC_LAST ]
Enter: Alert (20)
A1: Astrid Filter Alert [Configuration:Google Tasks: @Move]
A2: Variable Clear [Name:%LOC_CHANGED Pattern Matching:Off]

Because I use Google Tasks for the lists @Move,@work,@home etc, I can create location reminders from everywhere, and on any device I use.

https://market.android.com/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.timsu.astrid&hl=en

45HG679

2011-08-22T02:56:00.000-07:00

45HG679

Things I'm not doing in March

2011-02-27T02:37:00.000-08:00

Last year in February I told myself: “What if I lived in abstinence for 1 month, like some of these weired religious people do?”

And then I spend the whole March '10 without sugar, alcohol or caffeine. I ate only very small meals.

My experience was very positive: If you force yourself to let go of old habits for a while, you either start questioning them or you realize how precious they really are. And during your abstinence, you clean your body, and you concentrate your energy on other things in your life.

So this year I’m repeating the project. But this time I’m making it like a 100 times more difficult. You know what I mean if you take a look at my abstinence plan for March:

The List

No coffeine
Argh! This means that I will not get any work done in March, but it also means I abandon one of my nastiest habits.

No sweets
Companies put sugar in everything these days, but I’ll do my best to avoid any kind of sweets, from chocolate to pudding to theses wonderful cakes that my friends Anna and Rist make from time to time.
No junk food
This includes most of the ready meals you find on the supermarket, most stuff you get delivered, and of course all kinds of fast food.

No web browsing for pleasure
Now it gets interesting! I will not “just browse the web” This includes, of course, reading those facebook and twitter and techmeme and reddit streams. No funny youtube videos!

I can still look up information of course (e.g. looking up a location on google maps, or answering to a facebook message, or - if I’m not asleep because I drank no coffee, work).
In theory I could still post stuff to twitter - but most likely I won't, except for automated stuff (like foursquare checkins).

I did not put alcohol or meat on the list this time, since I barely drink any. If anything, I should probably go out and drink more, not less.

The last point is of course the most difficult one: It means I have to abandon something that makes a big part of my day. What will I do with all this time?

Preparations

I made a list of the most “dangerous” websites, and I’m prepared to DNS-block them on Monday. I’m going to uninstall those facebook/twitter apps on my mobile, as well as all these news reading links and apps I have installed. I'm also eating very unhealthy this weekend ;)

Wish me luck. I’m going to miss you all ;)

Blogger for Android is out..

2011-02-04T01:38:00.001-08:00

So will this make me blog more than 3 times a year? Let's find out.

Because I'm testing the app, I'll now add some random picture. (That's Josef)

Segmented Controls in Android

2010-10-29T06:33:00.000-07:00

Update: I refined the code below, made it a lot more customizable and hosted a project on githup, including an example so you can try it out. Please visit https://github.com/bookwormat/segcontrol

A segmented control is a alternative to a group of radio buttons:

So it is basically a RadioButton with a different style, and the buttons are lying side by side. I have seen these on iPhone/iOS devices, but Android does not seem to have such a control or Theme. However, you can make one yourself by extending android.widget.RadioButton and overriding the onDraw method:



import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.graphics.Paint.Style;
import android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable.Orientation;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.RadioButton;

public class SegmentedControlButton extends RadioButton {

    private float mX;

    public SegmentedControlButton(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SegmentedControlButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public SegmentedControlButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    private static final float TEXT_SIZE = 16.0f;

    @Override
    public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

        String text = this.getText().toString();
        Paint textPaint = new Paint();
        textPaint.setAntiAlias(true);
        float currentWidth = textPaint.measureText(text);
        float currentHeight = textPaint.measureText("x");

        // final float scale =
        // getContext().getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
        // float textSize = (int) (TEXT_SIZE * scale + 0.5f);
        textPaint.setTextSize(this.getTextSize());
        textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);

        float canvasWidth = canvas.getWidth();
        float textWidth = textPaint.measureText(text);

        if (isChecked()) {
            GradientDrawable grad = new GradientDrawable(Orientation.TOP_BOTTOM, new int[] { 0xffdcdcdc, 0xff111111 });
            grad.setBounds(0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight());
            grad.draw(canvas);
            textPaint.setColor(Color.WHITE);
        } else {
            GradientDrawable grad = new GradientDrawable(Orientation.TOP_BOTTOM, new int[] { 0xffa5a5a5, 0xff000000 });
            grad.setBounds(0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight());
            grad.draw(canvas);
            textPaint.setColor(0xffcccccc);
        }

        float w = (this.getWidth() / 2) - currentWidth;
        float h = (this.getHeight() / 2) + currentHeight;
        canvas.drawText(text, mX, h, textPaint);

        Paint paint = new Paint();
        paint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        paint.setStyle(Style.STROKE);
        Rect rect = new Rect(0, 0, this.getWidth(), this.getHeight());
        canvas.drawRect(rect, paint);

    }

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int ow, int oh) {
        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, ow, oh);
        mX = w * 0.5f; // remember the center of the screen
    }

}

Now you can use this new widget inside a RadioGroup, just as you would with any other Radio Button.

I imagine you achieve the same thing do the same thing by restyling the existing RadioButton implementation in the layout files? If you know how this is done, please let me know.

Mate, Mate

2010-05-27T07:01:00.000-07:00


Trinke Mate mit mir
Mate, Mate, die ganze Nacht!
Trinke Mate mit mir,
weil die Mate uns gluecklich macht.
Koffein und Zucker rein
und bis zum Morgen wirst du wach sein.
Trinke Mate mit mir,
Mate, Mate, die ganze Nacht!

(via ccc)

Polar Clock

2010-05-21T17:09:00.000-07:00

I made this polar clock using HTML5/canvas. I find polar clocks are a fascinating way to visualize time.

I guess the next logical step would be to allow setting alerts by drawing lines on the clock?

(larger version, source)

Popcap is still working on Android versions of Peggle and Bejeweled

2009-07-27T08:23:00.001-07:00

In march game producer Popcap announced that they are going to release a version of their popular game Peggle for Android in April. Well, there is still no Android Peggle until this day, so I wrote an email to Garth Chouteau from Popcap. Looks like Peggle is still on its way:

We are still working on Peggle for Android. Peggle and Bejeweled Twist shouldn't be too far away. It's a new OS for us to develop on and it has taken a little longer than expected to 'get it right.'

Nice. Now we need them to also announce their better games for Android, like Plantz vs. Zombies and Bookworm Adventures (a game with the word Bookworm in its title cannot fail!).

Wave notes

2009-06-07T08:55:00.000-07:00

From Drop Box

Slowly digging into the Wave Protocol Specs.

I wonder how backups are best implemented. I guess we can always have robots creating snapshots once a wave reaches a given state (eg. crossing a timeframe without updating). But I guess we will use extension data in the process (e.g. the history of the Chess game you played in the wave).

Words of Goo

2009-03-23T08:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/groups/games-dont-kill/pool/

White to die?

2009-03-21T13:38:00.001-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/groups/games-dont-kill/pool/

Install gridwars on a 1024x600 netbook running ubuntu.

2008-12-09T06:13:00.000-08:00

install deb from http://www.getdeb.net/app/GridWars+2 .

if you try to run gridwars, it will crash with an error "appstub.linux signal handler 11".

wtf? a look into ~/.gridwars/errors.txt shows more details: "Can not set graphics mode: Fullscreen - 1024X768" . ok, that makes sense, we only have a resolution of 1024x768.

change resolution in ~/.gridwars/Config.txt ("Screen Heigt" to 600).

save, play, have fun

German for advanced beginners: Various names for the heel of a loaf of bread

2008-12-08T14:52:00.000-08:00

Aheuer, Anschnitt, Bugl, Bödeli, Gnetzla, Gupf, Kipf, Knerzel, Knießchen, Knippchen, Knorzen, Knurrn, Knust, Knust, Knäppchen, Knäuschen, Knäusperle, Knörzchen, Knörzla, Knüppchen, Knüstchen, Krüstchen, Mürgel, Ortstückel, Ranfl, Ranft, Reiftchen, Reiftle, Riebel, Ränftl, Scherzerl, Stützle, Timpken

Now reading

2008-11-30T14:14:00.000-08:00

Quiz: Who is this?

Knowledge of Literature.—Nil.

Philosophy.—Nil.

Astronomy.—Nil.

Politics.—Feeble.

Botany.—Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.

Geology.—Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.

Chemistry.—Profound.

Anatomy.—Accurate, but unsystematic.

Sensational Literature.—Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.

Plays the violin well.

Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.

Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

Answer

32

2008-11-23T01:01:00.000-08:00



Four o'clock in the afternoon
and I didn't feel like very much.
I said to myself, "Where are you golden boy,
where is your famous golden touch?"
I thought you knew where
all of the elephants lie down,
I thought you were the crown prince
of all the wheels in Ivory Town.
Just take a look at your body now,
there's nothing much to save
and a bitter voice in the mirror cries,
"Hey, Prince, you need a shave."
Now if you can manage to get
your trembling fingers to behave,
why don't you try unwrapping
a stainless steel razor blade?
That's right, it's come to this,
yes it's come to this,
and wasn't it a long way down,
wasn't it a strange way down?

There's no hot water
and the cold is running thin.
Well, what do you expect from
the kind of places you've been living in?
Don't drink from that cup,
it's all caked and cracked along the rim.
That's not the electric light, my friend,
that is your vision growing dim.
Cover up your face with soap, there,
now you're Santa Claus.
And you've got a gift for anyone
who will give you his applause.
I thought you were a racing man,
ah, but you couldn't take the pace.
That's a funeral in the mirror
and it's stopping at your face.
That's right, it's come to this,
yes it's come to this,
and wasn't it a long way down,
ah wasn't it a strange way down?

Once there was a path
and a girl with chestnut hair,
and you passed the summers
picking all of the berries that grew there;
there were times she was a woman,
oh, there were times she was just a child,
and you held her in the shadows
where the raspberries grow wild.
And you climbed the twilight mountains
and you sang about the view,
and everywhere that you wandered
love seemed to go along with you.
That's a hard one to remember,
yes it makes you clench your fist.
And then the veins stand out like highways,
all along your wrist.
And yes it's come to this,
it's come to this,
and wasn't it a long way down,
wasn't it a strange way down?

You can still find a job,
go out and talk to a friend.
On the back of every magazine
there are those coupons you can send.
Why don't you join the Rosicrucians,
they can give you back your hope,
you can find your love with diagrams
on a plain brown envelope.
But you've used up all your coupons
except the one that seems
to be written on your wrist
along with several thousand dreams.
Now Santa Claus comes forward,
that's a razor in his mit;
and he puts on his dark glasses
and he shows you where to hit;
and then the cameras pan,
the stand in stunt man,
dress rehearsal rag,
it's just the dress rehearsal rag,
you know this dress rehearsal rag,
it's just a dress rehearsal rag.

-- Leonard Cohen, "Dress Rehearsal Rag"

My new dell mini 9

2008-11-07T14:23:00.000-08:00

Because Barbara requested it, here are some pictures of my new Dell Mini 9.

So far I'm pretty happy with it. Ever since I bought a good desktop machine in the end of 2006, I hardly used my expensive notebook (Macbook) for anything else but reading and editing text, video & audio. The mini can do that too, and it has the huge advantage that it is small/light/cheap enough to carry it with me even if I'm not sure I'm going to need it. With the Macbook I always had to ask myself "Am I really going to go to the library after lecture, and will I really need the notebook then to justify carring it around the whole day?". The mini perfectly fits into my small bag, together with book, my moleskine and all my other stuff.

As for the Macbook: I'm giving it to my little sister Cosima. She turns 16 today, which I remember is an important birthday, and I guess she will have a lot more use for it than I have. This ends my 2 1/2 years affair with Apple Computers. The Mini is running GNU/Linux (Ubuntu), as are all the other machines I currently use on PCs.

All in all OS X was a interesting and positive experience. Some really annoying things, like iTunes only downloading album art if you enter your credit card. Or software updates without package management. But there are quite some annoying things in Ubuntu as well, so that's not making the difference in the end.

What does make a difference however is that Ubuntu is free software, and OS X is not: If all the systems do the job (and Windows XP does the job too), of course I'm going with the one that costs nothing, is based on open standards, and has a transparent development process.

Subversion 1.4.6, symbolic links, and my fat32 formatted SSD card

2008-11-06T00:47:00.000-08:00

I spend the last hour trying to checkout my personal tuwien repository to the external SSD card that I put inside my dell mini. The problem was that I forgot that this SSD card is of course fat32 formatted, and that subversion does not handle the limitations of fat32 very well.

First I get a "Can't move file" error because I had two files on the disk that only differ in case. Next I get a cryptic message like "Can't open file .svn/../tu/mathe.tmp.tmp ... operation not permitted". That is because I had a symbolic link in my repository.

A checkout to the Mini's internal SSD card (ext3) worked fine. I wonder if other versioning systems give smarter error messages?

Building Android on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 64bit

2008-10-31T08:45:00.000-07:00

Follow the instructions on http://source.android.com/download.

Install the following additional libraries


sudo aptitude install ia32-libs  g++-multilib gcc-multilib
lib32z1-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32readline5 lib32readline5-dev

build with make

Building with 'make' worked fine with Python 2.5 and OpenJDK, which are installed by default on Intrepid. However, building with "make sdk" failed, because sun.util.resources.OpenListResourceBundle could not be found (it appears that this class was removed in Java 6). The problem can be solved by using sun's Java 5 SDK.

Damn, this would have been a cool handle

2008-10-12T09:36:00.001-07:00

Btw, despite what they write in the errormessage, '_' is not a legal username either ;)

Chrome Browser

2008-09-02T13:12:00.000-07:00

New web browser based on Webkit. Chrome is based on an open source product called Chromium, although I not sure about the license yet. Also, there is already a free project with that name. Linux code is incomplete, so I can only test this thing for a few minutes.

UI looks very nice and thin. Mouse and Keyboard are mostly taken from Firefox. The "smart address bar" seems to be less smart as the one from Firefox 3. Chrome has inkoknito surfing and support for site specific browsers, pretty much like Prism. While I'm writing this, I notice that the spell checking is really, really awful. So sorry for all the typos. Well, it's a beta.

Part of the project is also a new Javascript Engine.

I have no idea about chrome as a software platform - Does this support easy extension development without building the whole thing?

Anyway, another (hopefully) free software product with a huge budget. Can't be a bad thing.

Blizzard: render your HTML yourselves!

2008-08-02T09:18:00.000-07:00

Most popular browsers these days can do XSLT transformations on the fly. A rarely used feature on the common web, that is mostly used to make pretty HTML representations of files that for some reason need to be XML. A good example are RSS feeds.

Now I just checked the online store of the gaming company Blizzard Entertainment, and if you send a HTTP request there, the server checks if your browser is capable of XSLT processing, and if it is, they send you a XML response in return. The XML is linked to a stylesheet, and the rendering part itself is done at your own computer.

Implementation Question Resolution Heuristic w/o Standards

2008-07-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

via Joe Gregorio, OSCon 2008 - Open Source and Standards.

blog.bookworm.at

ICS style Segmented Control for Android

Paying for Spotify or Grooveshark? Still undecided...

Music Library

Radio and Recommendations

Social integration

Apps/Clients

And else...

Support for ActionViews in Actionbar compat

Astrid / Tasker

45HG679

Things I'm not doing in March

The List

No coffeineArgh! This means that I will not get any work done in March, but it also means I abandon one of my nastiest habits.

No sweetsCompanies put sugar in everything these days, but I’ll do my best to avoid any kind of sweets, from chocolate to pudding to theses wonderful cakes that my friends Anna and Rist make from time to time.

No junk foodThis includes most of the ready meals you find on the supermarket, most stuff you get delivered, and of course all kinds of fast food.

In theory I could still post stuff to twitter - but most likely I won't, except for automated stuff (like foursquare checkins).

The last point is of course the most difficult one: It means I have to abandon something that makes a big part of my day. What will I do with all this time?

Preparations

Blogger for Android is out..

Segmented Controls in Android

Mate, Mate

Polar Clock

Popcap is still working on Android versions of Peggle and Bejeweled

Wave notes

Words of Goo

White to die?

Install gridwars on a 1024x600 netbook running ubuntu.

German for advanced beginners: Various names for the heel of a loaf of bread

Now reading

32

My new dell mini 9

Subversion 1.4.6, symbolic links, and my fat32 formatted SSD card

Building Android on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 64bit

Damn, this would have been a cool handle

Chrome Browser

Blizzard: render your HTML yourselves!

Implementation Question Resolution Heuristic w/o Standards

No coffeine
Argh! This means that I will not get any work done in March, but it also means I abandon one of my nastiest habits.

No sweets
Companies put sugar in everything these days, but I’ll do my best to avoid any kind of sweets, from chocolate to pudding to theses wonderful cakes that my friends Anna and Rist make from time to time.

No junk food
This includes most of the ready meals you find on the supermarket, most stuff you get delivered, and of course all kinds of fast food.