2009 - it starts here#

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:05:31 +0000

Well, started last weekend, really.

• First Tatem training of the off-season was 2nd November. Some two-footed skating drills which demonstrated quite convincingly that my left foot recovery needs work, plus a bit of videoing, then cycled back into town to lead the Stroll, and hence to the pub
• Monday was a writeoff (see "pub", above)
• Tuesday RC, Weds skate was rained off, Thurs a bit of cycling (to Decathlon to get my turbo trainer wheel a cassette, then LSST AGM and home)
• Friday I rode the Firebrox, and about two thirds of the way through discovered that it is still possible to stress last year's leg injury to the point of pain. Cycled home slowly and cautiously
• Saturday and Sunday, in the interests of letting leg recover (it now has) nothing more strenuous than walking. Which was uncomfortable on Saturday and seems OK now.

My training schedule is also supposed to include a circuits class (I am still hoping that some alternative to setting foot inside a gym will present itself) and a slideboard, and not to use "it's raining" as an excuse to do nothing instead - now I have all the bits of the turbo that's one excuse fewer...

This week: Monday is supposed to be rest day but I should probably put the turbo together tonight as I missed yesterday: Tuesday will be RC, Friday with any luck is the FNRttC, and I'll slot the rest together later

In other news: saw an ad for the t-mobile g1, which made me think seriously about replacing my maximum-suckage m600, then saw the actual phone a bit later, which made me decide not to replace it with that. So now I'm stuck for ideas: at minimum I need qwerty and a usable ssh client - something like the HTC touch pro would be nice, but I only spend around 15/month on PAYG calls, so I'm not about to get it on contract, and 400 squid is a fair-sized chunk of cash. And then there's still the what-if-you-stack-on-it problem.

G1 Day1#

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:21:48 +0000

Actually it's day 2 now - I've had the thing since lunchtime Friday.

• not nearly as ugly in the flesh (in black) as the pictures
• keyboard is still a typing-with-thumbs device, but livable (and better than the m600 was by far)
• importing the numbers from my old phone was painful - there's no vcard support
• battery life is pants - but note, this is using the out of the box firmware. Some grovelling around the xda-dev forums and similar places gave me the tools I need to get. RC8 (current UK version, equivalent to US RC30) without giving up the root access accidentally left in the earlier one, so I hope it will now last all day on one charge
• camera's a bit rubbish

That was a list of criticisms, so I should add that on balance I actually love it so far, and it certainly blows the m600 out of the water. 100 quid for the handset, 20/month contract, which I reckon is not bad for a pocket-sized computer which happens also to be able to make phone calls