I updated my android SDK as I am now on eclipse Helios 3.6 and I wanted to make a few updates to the estrip publisher app since seeing it on the nook tablet.

I discovered they do have their own nook SDK which is nice but on the shitty side it only works with their nook emulator so far. This is cool if you don't have a nook but not so cool if you do. I remember from the estrip app. Testing on the Nexus One was so much better than on the stupid emulator. Its just not the same trying to get a feel for it. Luckily, a rooted nook will let me put apps on it for testing but its annoying and a hack.

I wish so bad that B&N would just allow the regular android store. Having it on my rooted nook is incredible. It makes the device so damn useful that I can't put it down. In fact I love typing on it with the new gingerbread keyboard I downloaded.

I mean, I get why they don't want it. I am sure they are terrified of people using the kindle app on it and buying book from amazon instead. They shouldn't have too much to worry about because the reading experience on the native nook app is so much better than with the Kindle app. For example, kindle won't let me pinch and zoom on my books. Plus the notetaking and sharing quotes, lending feature, etc.

I can't wait for them to open up whatever market they are going to open. I would love to get in on it but it seems like they are really playing up to the big company devs more than the small guy. Reading through the forum this is pissing off a lot of developers who feel they if they are going to be treated as second class devs, they might as well develop for the ipad's larger market.

Well, anyways, here is hoping that whatever it is I end up developing finds its way into the store when its done and they I stay dedicated to working on it without knowing for sure if it will. Its just so hard to be motivated for something that might just turned down at the last stage. That's exactly why I never developed the estrip app for iphone.

The. weather here has been so warm. I think it was around 50 degrees. Felt more like St Patrick's. day than New Year's day.

All of the the snow melted, not that there was much ti begin with, revealing all the cigarette butts people threw into the snow on Hertel. Why do people think it is okay to throw small peices of fiberglass everywhere? I think somehow they think that because it is wrapped in paper it is natural.

We should just illegalize filtered cigarettes. Either go hardcore and be litter free or quit. It's not like those filters really protect anyone anyways.

We went to kostas for lunch today. I for the octopus as usual. It is the only place I have found it here I'm buffalo. Does anyone else know a place?

The new years party 2011 was awesome. It was the first party where I only spent lime an hour cleaning up. Some highlights:

• The tabletstravaganza on the couch with (e:Heidi) and (e:Chris). I was nervous at firs that I would regret the nook when I saw the other android tablets but instead it reenforced my feelings that t was the best electronics purchase I ever made. The bigger ones were too heavy and big. The screens were also crappy for reading which is what I care about most. The windows 7 one almost seemed like a joke. The interface was lame. For example, when you pressed an input to type, instead of Beijing up the keyboard a you would expect, it brought up a keyboard icon that you! have to press to bringup the keyboard. It was so freaking frustrating. Plus just imagineho slow it would get over time running windows.
  
• discussing enlightenment linux desktop with (e:uncutsanifkush). Too bad Tim was gone at that point.
  
• dealing with Geoffrey's supposed Volvo car robbery this morning. Turned out it was parked a couple blocks away and he forgot, but not before an hour long freakout. I used that time to clean the kitchen.
  
• meeting Eric's friend Lara. I wish I got to talk with her some more.
  
• Drinking the pink nuvo stuff that (e:metalpeter) brought.
  
• Realized that we did in fact have a snookie of our very own, she just needed a little mike plus tumeric and paprika rub skin treatment and hairspray. She accompanied ball drop.
  
• Droping the lit up ball down the stairwell, it is my very favorite part of new years. Next year I am going to make it crazier. Maybe a countdown clock or drop it off the roof.

The rooted nook color is so much easier to use than my phone because of the screensize that it appears to me to be faster, yet according to the quadrant benchmark it is in fact slower, although faster than a non 2.2 Nexus One.

Games like angry birds seem snappy as can be. I guess for the stuff I do with it speed doesn't matter and if I could trade some speed for battery life it seems perfectly worth it and typing on it is fantastic. This is definitely the perfect size for me.

I signed up for a dev account today. I am so curious how you are supposed to distribute apps considering there is no normal android market yet. The official specs are in this ::READ PDF::