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It's finally weekend, and i have decided to take an hour out, to play with the OS2008 on N800. it is already a week since an official beta was released, but i have been considering hard whether to do it or not. Guess now you get the answer already ;)

just right before i want to go to sleep (it is way past bed time) i looked at my Liferea for some RSS feed updates... and surprisingly besides 5xmom's update, i saw ThoughtFix update his blog with this interesting news - a possible new Internet Tablet might be on its way. It seemed that he found some new stuffs submitted by Nokia to FCC and it can be likely a new tablet. This will make me feel excited again, even though it might not be a good thing. Remember what happened to Nokia 770 when N800 was released? It was almost felt like being set aside with all the improvement plans. Until now one can only "enjoy" some of the new stuffs on a hacker edition of ITOS2007. Would this happen to N800 when the new kid is in town?

most of the time we see FOSS as a good thing, because of its F. Free. some insist that F is Free as in Freedom, but not beer. But many just hope that beer will be as free as FOSS :)

while looking at Maemo's growth and development, i come across a new game project announced in the mailing list. It is called DragonFear. It is a RPG game similar to 80's bard's tale... One thing that caught my eyes is the following:

remember the post where i mentioned i got my SD card "crashed and burnt"? Byte did point me to an entry in maemo bugzilla with similar problem, but i doubt it is identical to my case. Anyway, after long procastination (the card actually sat at my office desk for a week!) i send the card back to Amazon. I must praise Amazon for its great service - an email was replied within 24 hours, and a refund was made 2 days after i send off the card. So bye bye Sandisk Ultra II. apparently somewhere in the Internet i read about a faulty batch. I think it is just my luck, i hope.