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Tips for installing the Nokia Developer’s Suite for J2ME™ on Gentoo Linux. I’m trying to do my development in Linux, since I use it as my main desktop machine, and I hate using Windows development tools for some reason. I’m sure there will be other snags - I still have to get it working with Eclipse, and then work out how to program in Java. Yay for my ability to pick up new programming languages as I use them - thanks to the high school teacher that taught the theory of programming rather than just how to do it.

There’s a great article on Links to Free Music that area completely legal. MichaelCrawford is a great poster on one of my favourite “thinking” News/Article/Information sites Kuro5hin.org. His two sites have terribly ugly layouts, but they are very well written from what I’ve seen, and I think you should read the article that I linked to in my first sentence, if not only for the information, but the way that he writes. I admire him as someone that actually puts some effort into his writing, and then gives it away - then there’s the fact that he has some serious mental issues (can’t remember the name, but it’s an amazing story of living through some strange things that happen to people’s brains.)

As you may have noticed, I’m going rather crazy with my new toy. Rather than sitting at work reading my current novel or something like that, I was rather busily investigating the Nokia Developer’s Forum for information on what I can do with the Series 40 platform and its associated Java goodness. I’m going to try and get Eclipse working later, hopefully it’ll be my IDE of choice, since I’d prefer to code in Linux rather than having to rely on Windows.

Well, I finally got the data cable working properly - since it’s a non-genuine part, it works in non-normal ways. Rather than being a USB cable, it detects as a “Nokia 5140 connected through Serial Cable.” Which is why it wasn’t working, because the software that is included with the normal PC Suite doesn’t include serial drivers and so forth.

I’ve been reading things on Nokia’s Discussion Boards with regards to what I can and can’t do with the phone, software updates and things that are to be played with, and it looks like the Series 40 OS is pretty simple, which means I can’t do much with it. I guess I’ll just have to get into programming for the phone in Java and see what I can do 🙂

Well, I bought a new mobile phone today, since I was out of contract with Telstra for the old one… my two years was up, the call rates sucked, and so did the other available services. So their luck ran out when it came to me. Virgin and Vodafone don’t have the coverage that I’m looking for (lots of out-of-city is what I need) so they were off the list to start with.

Was driving around with Bob, looking for things for the van, and tools and stuff - he was looking for a home audio amp because he needs tunes at home. We ended up buying a pair of amps from Crime Converters - me a 2×100 Blaupunkt and Bob got a 4×100 of the same brand. Now I’m on the search for the power/signal cables for the amp, because as usual, they don’t use the normal screw in connectors and things like that. It’ll probably cost me more for the wiring than for the amp, but then again, it’s a nice small amp, does 2×100 RMS and have a nice shiny setup for the subs that I’m planning to put into the van. Yay me!

Well, herein begins the stopping smoking crusade… The feeling of blood clots are coming back to my arms and legs, making me think that the whole smoking idea is a bit sucky. I’ve bought a patch product called “QuitX Step 1”, which is about 24mg across a 24 hour period - about what I have been smoking recently. They seem to be working - I’ve only got a minimal amount of cravings, mostly from the habit that smoking is, rather than the addiction. Wish me luck! I hope I can do this, since I do like living, and dying from something stupid like this seems like a really bad idea.

I guess that’s why I setup this site properly for once, I can’t be bothered fighting with the CMS that I made, pretty as it is - I’m sure it’ll be useful for the stuff that I use it for at home. Normally that’s just link tracking and things like that, but really it’s just for boredom’s sake.

The main reason that I put a lot of this information up on the site is because I’m bored. Also, there’s a lot of information that I don’t believe is being delivered in a way that I learn - so I guess there are a lot of other people that looking for information in the way that I look for it too.