I grabbed a new HTC S640 (codename Iris) smartphone last week. It’s a great phone, but not without its problems.
Aside from the obvious setback of making a Windows Mobile device play nicely with Linux, there is also a notable lack of community support for this device. This is due mostly to the fact that the HTC S640 is exclusive to Telus Mobility–a rather small demographic, globally speaking.
Since good information has been so hard to find, I have added a HTC S640 Iris and Windows Mobile 6 Hacks page to the Projects section. With any luck, Google will figure out I’m just about the only website with S640-specific tips and information. I’ve also added an HTC S640 directory to the files section for miscellaneous Iris and Windows Mobile 6 stuff.
Posted by Thayer
on June 26, 2008
I’ve come to the realization that I just don’t have the spare time I used to. What began as a few hours of site maintenance has turned into two weeks of downtime. Aside from the new Sandbox-based theme, I had also hoped to get a few articles posted and some fresh projects up. So much for that idea.
I have decided to get the site back into working order and will just publish stuff piecemeal when I can afford to. That means things around here will probably be disorganized for the unforeseen future.
Posted by Thayer
on June 20, 2008
You wouldn’t know it by the dump of snow we had last week, but it’s supposed to be Spring here in beautiful British Columbia. With hopes that warmer weather is on its way, we’ve begun to tidy up around here and clear out the cobwebs.
We’ve setup an account at Flickr, to host artwork, screenshots and photographs. I plan to add some sidebar stuff to that effect in the near future, but for those who can’t wait we already have a number of screenshots and things in the photostream.
Also, after a short period with Drupal we’ve decided that WordPress wasn’t so bad after all. I think Drupal is a great CMS platform, but it’s a bit much for simple blogging. Some recent work I completed for a client has made me realize just how flexible WordPress is. Besides that, Sandbox is a designer’s dream come true—every CMS/BMS platform should provide something like this.
Posted by Thayer
on April 30, 2008
So you wanna take a step away from the media…a total ban on TV-watching and internet-surfing right? Not! How can anyone give up the very connection to the world, news, information, or worse miss out on the next American Idol? If I can’t talk to co-workers the next day about who was canned, then what can I talk about? Our connection to media has taken the form of passive watcher, to interactive contributory exhibitionism, which in itself is addictive.
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Posted by Libby
on March 16, 2008
Recent events brought up thoughts and questions on what it means to be a “citizen” of a country. Is it about a sense of belonging? Is it to escape unknown horrors? A few of us Canooks sat around over coffee and debated this.
First of all, we recommend everyone of any country, attend a citizenship ceremony; not only to see how government works, but more importantly to see the faces of the immigrants as they complete the last and final step in what is a very tedious process. In a room of a hundred would-be citizens, 13% of the world’s population was represented—that’s 25 countries! Staggering. As we looked at their faces, we wondered what kind of lives they left behind. Did they come to escape or to explore? Did they sacrifice everything?
Dressed up in formal pomp and display, a citizenship ceremony is a symbolic event to mark the transition from one life to another. A necessary rite of passage for some, an unthinkable proposition for others. For those who are citizens by default and who take it for granted everyday, we have to ask ourselves what would it mean coming from Sudan, Iraq, or even the USA? Perhaps they want certain freedoms, choice, democracy, or something less egalitarian such as being with someone they met online?
Certainly we can thump our chests and tout our rights and freedoms, but it means nothing until you can see it in the eyes of those who have made the journey; those who pursued the unknown—their smile says it all.
Posted by Libby
on February 18, 2008
I grabbed a new HTC S640 (codename Iris) smartphone last week. It’s a great phone, but not without its problems.