I traveled to Melbourne over the Christmas break and had a fantastic time catching up with family and friends.
While taking time out, Eugene and I still wanted to keep an eye on the Gleemy server logs, and so before leaving for Melbourne I configured my Nokia N800 Internet tablet for the task.
Firstly, I upgraded my data plan with Three from $5 for 10Mb/Month to $12 for 100MB/Month. Pairing the N800 with my 6288 for an Internet connection Just Works.
I set up secure SMTP for sending mail and installed ssh for access to a shell on the Gleemy server.
Finally, I wrote a few shell scripts to notify us of important events on the server, which were delivered promptly to my N800, paired with the 6288 and usually kept in my pocket.
This set up worked great for monitoring the server and writing short emails. A bluetooth keyboard (or even, gasp, a laptop computer) would still be needed for non-trivial development, or writing long emails.
After arriving home, my use for the N800 wasn’t critical and so I promptly upgraded to OS2008. Man, is this thing slick. The UI is so much faster and snappier, the browser rocks, the on-screen keyboard feels so much better and affords fewer mistakes.
OS2007 was great last year, but was made crappy by OS2008 - a great example of Guy Kawasaki’s “Don’t worry be crappy” principle.
An innovator doesn’t worry about shipping an innovative product with elements of crappiness if it’s truly innovative. The first permutation of a innovation is seldom perfect–Macintosh, for example, didn’t have software (thanks to me), a hard disk (it wouldn’t matter with no software anyway), slots, and color. If a company waits–for example, the engineers convince management to add more features–until everything is perfect, it will never ship, and the market will pass it by.
Oh, and here’s a Gleemy Slide Show I made of a photo walk I took in Melbourne. Most of these were taken with a Nokia 6120 Classic. You can download it straight to your mobile by visiting http://gleemy.com/zqy8 with your phone - or -  23/2/08 UPDATE: Check out the new Slide Show Profile page to preview it on your PC: http://gleemy.com/#profile/0gva |
Haha that’s a great principle!
I’m glad to see that you enjoy OS2008. It’s funny to see how that even the greatest of innovations from one year, seem to be nothing more than child’s play the next.
Love the slideshow chrisp. Hope to see you post again soon!