There's no Place Like ::1

…just ordered my device :-)

The Android Dev Phone 1 is a SIM-unlocked and hardware-unlocked device that is designed for advanced developers. The device ships with a system image that is fully compatible with Android 1.0, so you can rely on it when developing your applications. You can use any SIM in the device and can flash custom Android builds that will work with the unlocked bootloader. Unlike the bootloader on retail devices, the bootloader on the Android Dev Phone 1 does not enforce signed system images. The Android Dev Phone 1 should also appeal to developers who live outside of T-Mobile geographies.

oh, and it runs debian too

I really dig last.fm. Starting at 2003 as a computer science project the original idea of Audioscrobbler evolved to, IMHO, one of the best social experiences of the web.

I consider myself a good user of last.fm. My profile lists 22k+ scrobbled audio tracks since 2006, and I have signed the monthly subscription several times — not that I consider the subscription advantages worthy, but I should support the projects I love.

Somewhere during the last week I realized I follow a semi-regular pattern when using last.fm. Here’s a diagram that explains it (I don’t needed to do this, but it was a good oportunity to test OminGrafle 5 :P)

I first start with my own pool of music and listen to it over and over again. When I get tired or want to try something new, I pick the best artist/album from my local storage and go to last.fm searching for “related artists”. I usually spent one week or so on this state, bookmarking all the new songs I loved. I then analyze the list, selecting the new albums, expanding my local storage, and then I go back to the first stage to enjoy the music.

As the time goes by, I’m constantly expanding my music taste and variety (yeah, we can argue about that). So thank you last.fm for all the good things you brought to my musical life :)

Don’t forget to check out their API if you want to build your own producer, or build smart consumers that mine your musical data to build mind blowing graphs. Also, they have a beautiful open source client here I learned a lot about Qt4.

I know it’s old, I know that other people have it already, but still I decided to publish it.

SAPO Codebits RFID API endpoints

• GET http://codebitsapi.0x82.com/users.{xml|json} returns the user list

• GET http://codebitsapi.0x82.com/users/id.{xml|json} returns the info about a specific user

• GET http://codebitsapi.0x82.com/users/id/locations.{xml|json} returns the user location history (ordered by lastseen ASC)

I only got the parser online yesterday at 19:00, so there are no results before that.

Have fun, and don’t abuse the server: the apps are written in Rails and everybody knows that Rails can’t scale

I’m going to be away for the next three days

If you see Reuben around, tell him to slow down!

Live stream available

We’ll go into this more later in the book, but other consumers are often the most useful guides because their incentives are best aligned with your own.

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.