I’ve been (re)discovering a lot of old and new music lately. On the
new side, Slumber is one of the bands that definitely deserve some attention. If you’re into melodic-symphonic death metal with a sprinkle of doominess, do yourself a favour and pick up their debut album Fallout.
And since I have an acute urge to flaunt my musical taste, I’ve made a few more themes for my phone. I have gathered them up for perusal in their own page.
Draconian is an awesome death/doom metal band from Sweden, well worth checking out if you’re into that kind of music; dark, atmospheric, melancholic doom/gothic metal.
Being the big fan that I am, I have made a Draconian theme for my phone, a Sony Ericsson K700i. (I believe it will work for some other SE models, as well.) Go here to
give it a look.
So I finally bit the dust and got myself a new phone. Goodbye, monophonic world of cameraless outdatedness!
Anyway, I’m very happy with this phone. It suits my geekiness very nicely. First, it has a lot of useless features that people like me tend to like, such as an FM radio, an MP3 player, a camera (capable of both stills and movie clips), a themable desktop (whee), bluetooth, IRDA, the works. Tres chiq. And I recently discovered that the “layout” (theme) files are actually tar files with a bunch of PNG and JPEG files, all tied together with an XML description file. Even cuter. And it supports VCards, and Multisync for contact / calendar event syncronization, which Evolution apparently also supports. That last bit is untested for now, though. Man, I love open standards. 
(Getting gnome-bluetooth up and running went less than smoothly, though, but it finally came around(ish), despite GTK screaming some profanities during the device scan. But at least I can send and receive files, so I guess I can’t complain.)