Old news for most of whom it concerns, but I’d like to air some thoughts about it nonetheless.

My impression so far - again, as a hacker, not an end user: I like it, and I like it alot. The refreshed look-and-feel is one thing, as well as the integrated IM and Google Talk, but to me the underlying system bits are more interesting.

First, though, the device feels much more responsive. Both when navigating around on the device itself as well as when using the web browser. Good job to whomever did that.

And the new Application Manager is very nice, and having a proper package repository system up and running is invaluable. I’m very pleased they decided to drop the /var/lib/install model from the earlier versions. Also, being able to use “apt” to cleanly remove parts of the stock system, e.g. games and RSS-reader (which I’m sure are nice, but I don’t really use them) is very handy.

As for the “beta” part of the release name, I haven’t found any showstopping bugs or flaws yet, so things are really looking promising. Great work, team. Looking forward to the final release!

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One small disappointment, though. It was a bit sad to see binary compatibility with ARMedslack packages go (it was incredibly handy to just drop a few precompiled binaries into /home/user/bin and off you go), but I guess the switch was done in the name of the greater good.

Pi, our gerbil died today, peacefully curled up in her sleep, a few weeks shy of four years old. Her health had been declining steadily for a few weeks now, so we knew it had to happen sooner or later. I suppose the recent heat wave gave her the final nudge into peaceful retirement.

Anyway, she had lived a long and full gerbil life. She was mother to no less than nine children, and grandmother to god-knows-how-many. (Five of her children were given away to friends and a pet shop, and one of the ones we kept was lucky enough to get to provide genetic material to one of my sister’s females. So Pi’s family tree has got branches way into the unknown. Which is kind of cool to know.)

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Thanks for sticking around, Pi. It’s been great knowing you!

Hmm, I should update my journal a bit more often. I always have a ton of things to say, but when I finally get the round tuit working, I can’t remember any of them.

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Anyway, I have finally discovered Flickr. (You can also find my latest few entries in the sidebar. Click any to zoom.) In turn, this has sparked my enthusiasm for all things photography again (I have these waves of burning interests that come and go, you see), which I consider a very good thing. Accomplishments in this field includes buying a stepdown ring for my camera (Canon EOS 350D), so that I can use my 49mm Hoya macro kit with it, without having to hold the lenses in front of the motive. Also, I have finally gotten around to setting up my own (hence very amateurish, but it works) studio. A slightly outdated picture can be found here. Outdated, because I now have a much larger reflector screen available as well.