Well, got back home last Friday and been kinda busy with work and family stuff. Its really good to get back. I had to purchase a new phone since my HTC Magic which was running a very nice Hero ROM just stopped working while I was in Chennai. I purchased a new HTC Hero in Singapore at the Changi airport and it came with a non-rooted ROM. As I posted before, you don’t need to really change the SPL on the Hero or anything like the Hboot. You can still use flashrec on phones bought from Newegg and Amazon. I just did this for a friend’s phone and it works fine. Basically download flashrec, install the recovery image, and reflash the new rooted ROM-ware. All done. Takes all of 15 minutes to take a factory default Hero to a custom MoDaCo ROM which is much nicer and rooted as well.
Always seems like there is something new with the Android OS devices which is cool to figure out, hack on, make it work. Ubuntu Karmic has turned out to be a very nice operating system on my laptops and desktops. No real problems on my x64 desktops and my thinkpad T60 laptops. This whole ubuntu thing is getting really good. Windows on the other hand; is only marginal. I don’t think that Windows 7 is that much better than anything else that MS has ever done. Its just another in the long line of consumer OS’es built for a large market share of less than demanding users. I think the problem really is that everyone using Windows are consumers of Windows and not really users. With Ubuntu Karmic its too easy to boot Windows in VirtualBox, run Outlook 2007 when I need to; but leave it all when I travel and just have a much more robust and stable system running Linux. Linux is just better and always will be.
Finally, all the travel still leaves me a bit jet-lagged. I get tired earlier and wake up at strange hours. Hopefully that ends soon. I’ll be leaving for Singapore and Chennai again in February for 2 weeks. Maybe do a r&r trip to Thailand this time. Have to wait and see. Was also thinking of going to Kyoto for a few days. I love Japan.
