Holding on for a Hero

I heard this week (albeit a tad late) about the forthcoming Android phone, the HTC Hero. Basically, it looks like HTC are going in for the kill with an iPhone-alike, and they might just do it!

This new phone is not only all-touch with no physical keyboard and a similar form-factor to the Apple Fashion Accessory, it supports Flash and has a somewhat controversial new UI called Sense.

However, what has impressed me the most about it is that it will be coming to Orange as of July 2009. Sweet! I can get an Android smartphone without switching networks (hopefully).

On Twitter, a fellow tweeter was somewhat dismayed at the phone's chinrest. Yes, it is a bit odd, but I think it can be lived with.

Anyway, here's a video of Hero's Sense UI in action:



I know, glossy sales pitch video, but I'm pretty much sold already.

I am, however, a little concerned over Android's lack of support for running apps from memory card. I know it can be hacked, but why isn't that a standard piece of functionality?

This is for the thick chicks

Another Def Poetry Jam video, this time it's Ms Tamara Blue with an ode to thick women. I love this happy find, and it wasn't too badly received on Fat Forums either. That's right, I love me some fat chick. Complaints can be submitted by your lips to my arse.

A fact of life

This is one of the reasons I love xkcd: occasionally Randall Munroe's thoughts and mine coincide. You could substitute any programming language you like for Perl in this graph, and it would still be true.

If only mainstream state education could find some way of catering to the brighter students for free. In fact, why doesn't the government pump more cash into state education for equipment, books, computers, vehicles (to ferry students to and from off-site activities) and staff? Probably the same reason that higher education is so damn expensive and painted as a fool's errand for all but the most toffee-nosed of children. Besides, where would the next generation of cannon fodder come from?

Rooibos tea

Is the SHIT!

That is all :)

ENTP

I took the Myers-Briggs test (technically, I re-took it, as I took it before but forgot my result). Now, I don't know if this is an accurate reading, but I scored as an ENTP: Extroverted (44%) iNtuitive (62%) Thinking (1%) Perceiving (11%).

This means that I am, apparently,

• moderately expressed extravert
  
• distinctively expressed intuitive personality
  
• slightly expressed thinking personality
  
• slightly expressed perceiving personality

Take the test yourself (the title of this blog links to humanmetrics.com).

This type love

Shihan from Def Poetry Jam.



This is exactly what I am looking for, despite all my apparent bitterness and the layers of crazy.

43 Things

Taking a cue from ThinkerGonemad, I've decided to try and make a list of 43 goals.

The list is currently ten items long, but I will eventually populate it with genuine and honest goals for life, love, health and wealth.

I just hope I can achieve at least the basics.

Playing records

A couple weeks ago my good friend Kreza and I played a back-to-back show on his internet radio station.

A lot of laughs were had by all, and we recorded it for your delectation here.

DOWNLOAD

Tracklist
**Hart**
Optical - To Shape the Future [Metalheadz]
Senses - Babylon [Bassbin]
Ed Rush & Nico - Torque [No U-Turn]
Silent Witness - Jumpgate [DNAudio]
Bad Company UK - Wednesday [BC Recordings]
Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Alien Girl [Prototype]
Mos Def - The Panties (Zero Tolerance remix) [white]
Matrix & Danny J - Paradiso [Metro]
**Kreza**
BCee & Lomax -Help You [Intrinsic]
? - ?
Fresh - Exhale? [Breakbeat Kaos]
**Hart**
Breakage - So Vain [Bassbin]
Reprazent - Trust Me [Talkin' Loud]
High Contrast - Basement Track [Hospital]
Marcus Intallex & ST Files - How You Make Me Feel [31]
Bad Company - Pulse [Prototype]
Noisia - Block Control [Moving Shadow]
Fierce & Break - Authentic [Quarantine]
Loxy - Caution [Renegade Hardware]
**Kreza**
TC feat. Jakes - Deep! (Roni Size & Dynamite MC remix) [D-Style]
Prodigy - Voodoo People (Pendulum remix) [XL]
Ed Rush & Optical feat. Matrix - Perfect Drug [Virus]
Pendulum - Back 2 U [Timeless]
**Hart**
Bloc Party - The Prayer (Break & Silent Witness remix) [Wichita/DNAudio]
Noisia - Believe [Moving Shadow]
Calyx - Tearing Us Apart [Moving Shadow]
Kemal - Plan B [Timeless]
Ed Rush & Optical feat Ryme Tyme & Darrison - Why? [Virus]
Noisia - Diplodocus [Quarantine]

Why I'm single

Personally, I would:

su -c 'make -target=$me Sandwich 2>/dev/null'

That way, the jibba-jabba goes to the Byte Bucket, and I get my damn sandwich with root privileges.

I'm pretty much screwed.

Disclaimer: I know make doesn't support a -target flag, so back up off the nuts already.