The long-awaited Nokia 770 Wi-Fi-enabled Linux tablet computer is finally available (a month or so late) in Europe. Online rumors are that it will be available in the US next week. There's a development platform and source code available.
OK; better post this before I start drooling on the keyboard...
Google Print is finally online. There are some serious problems, and I'm not talking about the moronic legal threat from the publishers. First thing I did was to search for a poem ("The Stolen Child", by Yeats) that I know damned well is public domain -- it was first published in 1899. Back come a bunch of links to images -- not even text -- of the poem as typeset in books published between 1990 and 2002, watermarked "Copyrighted" (or something like that -- the server's down at the moment). An advanced search limiting the dates to 1800-1930 turns up nothing whatever.
Just typesetting the damned poem doesn't give you a copyright, you blithering greedy bastards! I'll wait for things to settle out, and meanwhile head back to the 16,000 public domain books at gutenberg.org.
It promises to be a busy weekend, in mostly uninteresting ways -- we need to get two walls of the office, the CD cabinet, and the Younger Daughter's room clean by Monday so the pipers can get at the plumbing. Gaak! Seven boxes of stuff, and the office is nowhere near done.
Meanwhile, we need to go out and buy new fixtures for the front bathroom. Luckily we did some window-shopping a couple of weekends ago, so I have a pretty good idea of what to get.
And the kids have expressed an interest in seeing Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, so we'll go see it, probably Sunday late morning/early afternoon. There was talk of Saturday a few days ago, but it will make a better break/reward on Sunday.
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