Every time that thought crawls into your head, remember Apple's Think Different ad. We are the crazy ones.

Greetings from Suomi!

That's Finland, to the uninitiated.

A little snow on the ground, not too cold... but enough that I saw young guys playing ice hockey outside near the HEL airport.

I actually got some sleep on the way over this time so the 8 hour adjustment seems to be going smoother (7:20 pm here). CDG (Paris) airport was the usual mess. I'm going through JFK on the way home but that's only a slightly lesser evil.

Currently watching horse races in Finnish... lol. Tomorrow I actually have to work (on some prep stuff) but don't feel like sightseeing anyway. Hopefully though I can get in a little fun...

EDIT: O God, how surreal. The horse race is over, and they're showing a video montage of track prep while playing the original "Take This Job and Shove It".

Just wondering, are you using Boingo MobileWireless on your N8xx? I found it to be very useful and cheap while in Europe (Germany).

I have Boingo, but have not had a single opportunity to use it yet. In my travels I have not seen one Boingo hotspot (I saw no wifi at all at CDG). At DFW (home), there was one, but Boingo refused to connect to it.

That $7.95 monthly payment is beginning to look useless...

Sorry to hear that Texrat. Here are just a few places I have found it useful: MIA, BWI, PHL, DTW, hotels in Munich and Wiesbaden.

Hope your trip will be fruitful.

Thanks.

I've been a big proponent of Boingo, too, based solely on its potential... but I'm beginning to feel like those who have been complaining about it.

EDIT: just tried wifi in my hotel. 2 hotspots found. Boingo tried to log me into one of them (called waypoint) and I received a "connection attempt failed" error.

*sigh*

Holy crap! Just connected to the wayport wifi-- maybe Boingo was just being naughty last night?

ummm... spam?

Okay, I need some help here.

I'm going to begin periodically recognizing outstanding contributers to the tablets on my internal Nokia blog. The object is to filter them out of this big noisy morass () and then draw the attention of tablet program guys.

So post examples to this thread. A good example of what I'm looking for is the usbserial project (under OS2008) that was posted recently, as well as highlighting Arnim's wonderful game ports. I don't mean to slight anyone, because there are SO many amazing things being done, but I can't do them all... so I'll focus on truly groundbreaking stuff.

Thanks in advance!

Some highlights that I think are worth mentioning, I'm missing a LOT of people here: :/

ag2 and http://nitapps.com/
fanoush and his initfs/kernel work
fiferboy and his UI enhancements
Jaffa/aflegg and mediautils/770Flasher
Johnx and Debian
Krisse and the Internet Table School
Milhouse and his work on bugzilla/SD booting (he's getting a t-shirt, so he's probably covered )
Penguinbait and KDE

I'll append some more if I remember any particularly glaring omissions, but it's at least a start.