detour1999 » g1 http://detour1999.com i r nerd. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 being without internet http://detour1999.com/2008/12/25/being-without-internet/ http://detour1999.com/2008/12/25/being-without-internet/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:17:07 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=37 is a pain in the ass.

I am on vacation for the first time in ages, and for the first time in longer than I can remember I have been mostly without internet.

So, I had to do something about that.

Using this sweet app, these directions and FoxyProxy I am now writing this on my laptop on the blazingly fast 3g connection of my G1 (~400K down/~150K up)

(in reality, all internet feels slow to me now that I am used to the 100MB fiber @ work. However, I still use the shared 56k line at my parents when I’m there, and I’m happy to know that I’m significantly faster than that…)

so, happy xmas to me, I’ll be able to code and waste time on the internet on the train this weekend.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/12/25/being-without-internet/feed/ 1 Phones and such. http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/ http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:33:09 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/ I got an iPhone a while back, and I must admit that it is one of the nicest examples of consumer electronics I have ever used.
I’m writing this post on it right now. I never would have dreamed of writing a blog post on my old mda (even with its full qwerty keyboard…) it was just too slow and cumbersome.
All that being said, I went ahead and preprdered a G1 android phone the other day. I doubt that it will replace the iPhone. But it will be incredibly nice to compare them side by side. (and, admittedly, I’m a he’ll of a lot better at java than I am at objective C, so that will be fun, too.)
I look forward to writing more on the subject, once I get the G1 in my hands.

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