The corner of North and Franklin is under construction. They are removing thr crazy sweeping death trap turns and replacing them with right angles.

I am generally happy with the whole process but they have 2 gas powered arrows on 24/7 for like a week now. I wonder if it will go on the whole summer. It seems expensive, wasteful, and environmentally damaging when reflective tape could do. They even have it on during the daylight hours.

over at 464 Amherst street. The gallery is owner by (e:marcus) who had a journal for a post.





And here, the reason we went, (e:heidi) and her masterpeices.


Here I am with the 3D glasses on. They had paintings that popped out with 3D glasses on.



They had some djs and video screens outside which was pretty fun as well.

Since I got my n1 I have wanted to remove the facebook, twitter and amazon mp3 app but as they are stock apps it would not let me. Its so annoying that they were running in the background and possibly using battery but it was even more annoying that when I selected a pic in the gallery app it would always have facebook and twitter in the share menu when I really wanted to just have estrip there. After rooting my phone which is really quite simple on a nexus 1 (you can find instructions by searching on google) you need to do this.

Make sure your phone is recognized with adb by typing adb devices

Then run the following code. It basically mounts the system drive and then you move the apps to a backup file where they are there if you later change your mind, but they will no longer run.

To be fair I totally stole these commands from here and then added Twitter and amazon mp3 store to it

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/app
mv Facebook.apk Facebook.bak
mv com.amazon.mp3.apk com.amazon.mp3.bak
mv Twitter.apk Twitter.bak
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
sync

The most interesting part of this is that I am typing this journal from safari 5 windows edition using wine of Fedora 13 Linux.

Seems to make my phone much snappier, its hard to believe it could be any faster. I really just installed it and rooted it so I could get rid of facebook which you can't uninstall by default.



The battery on my n1 seems to last forever with the stock froyo. Lets hope it is the same here. They also included this new feature to make the screen monochrome red which is supposed to by a way to double battery life. I am very curious if that works or not.

Sometimes it kills.

At this week's hearings, Transocean officials recited a litany of mechanical problems that plagued the rig, which was 43 days behind schedule in drilling the Macondo well, which rig workers referred to as the "well from hell."

Williams, who has filed a lawsuit against Transocean, said a computer system that monitored well drilling operations, known as the "A chair," was often offline due to technical issues.

"We called it the blue screen of death," Williams said. "It would turn blue and you would have no data coming through.