wahlau's online hut

while leaving my room for work today, i plugged the charger to my nokia 770 - the first generation of the Nokia Internet Tablets. It came to my mind that i have not really used it since quite some time. Even during the last holiday, it was only used for mahjong. :) The last time i tried to really use it, was the time we got lost somewhere near Hamburg - and it kept crashing that i gave up searching for something there.

Dear Internet,

i just wonder, if your notebook can adapt its settings according to the environment you are current in, what are things you wish to see or have? At this point we can at least get the best connection (via NetworkManager) and perhaps best display (via xrandr/xorg), but most of the time we still need to configure a little here and there. Is it necessary to have an "intelligent system" that knows what it should serve you according to your current situation? Or the system should always be passive?

if you have never learn anything about Mark and his vision on Ubiquitous Computing , read the following scenario suggested by him:

Sal awakens: she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock,
alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked
"coffee?", and she had mumbled "yes." "Yes" and "no" are the only words
it knows.

ever though how close are the future world to us now? following a link i came to Current TV and saw a videocast on Hug shirt by Cute Circuit. it was really cool idea. Pressure can be applied on different areas on the hug shirt, and the values of the different areas will be measured and passed via bluetooth to a mobile phone. This can be then sent to another hug shirt user where you want your "hugs" to be sent. The received message on the other end will inteprate and send the values to the recepient's hug shirt. The shirt will then apply vibration and warmth on the spots pressed by the sender to simulate hug :)

A Mobile, Music and Physiology-Based Personal Trainer

by Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas, available here.

Conference: MobileHCI'06, September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland

Summary:
The paper presents MPTrain, a mobile phone based system that uses music to assist in users' exercise activities. With sensors attached to body, and sensor data being received on a mobile phone, suitable types of music would be chosen and played in order to encourage users to change their exercise method/approach/speed. The preliminary tests and results are done with jogging as selected sport exercise.

i am reading this book from Peter Morville now, and trying to learn to see things the way the author does. In his book he quoted this person, Calvin Mooers and his Mooers' law:

you might shout "oh no, not another one!?", but i know i just need to note down things i have done, so that i can redo them easily without search around the whole world just to overcome a simple step which can take you and me another precious 20 minutes.

1. SDK installation and start

- to start preparing your box for SDK development, read this. 

- it might be useful to double check your scratchbox distribution/version, and also to reinstall it according to the one mentioned in the wiki. it saves you at least the trouble to have something different from the given example.