Aaron Gladders

I must have been asleep but while checking the dell site for something, they’re now selling a bunch of phones from nokia, including the n95.

Apparently it started this summer (via engadget). Prices are in line with other sites like Expansys.

The trip is coming to a close. Takehomes so far:

-Geneva - a relaxed lifestyle.
-Some natural beauty
-Great food
-Great transit system
-smoking is still a major part of life here; it’s fine to smoke in a restaurant. You actually smell it as you enter the airport.

I loved how people were walking everywhere. Vancouver has this to large degrees, especially joggers and then activity extends into a ton of sports. But it seems to be a part of everyday life for a greater number of people here. Just going to work involves walking to either the bus or light rail. A short walk from there to their workplace and then the reverse.

Why we don’t have this in Vancouver? It has to be the distance. Geneva seems to have rail and light rail for longer distances and bus for shorter. Geneva itself seems small and lends itself well to this mode. I did end up walking everywhere - from the WHO to the restaurant and ultimately to my hotel. Into the old city, along the waterfront, etc. It’s a small enough place that walking is terrific.

The restaurants have been great (thanks to the people we’re working with for choosing them). I’ve enjoyed a brilliant fondu and a generous fresh made pasta.

The pictures are going up on flickr (link to follow) and I’m still deciding where to put the video.

So the real question - Geneva a top 3 city of the world and would I live here? Yes. I’d definitely spend some time here. I don’t think I’d put down roots but there is a laid backness, culture and lifestyle that is hard to deny.

In my ongoing efforts to DRY I’ve set this blog to suck in my last facebook update to the sidebar. Wordpress plugin available via here. So facebook *does* have RSS feeds available.

I picked one of these up from Costco. The price was good and the return policy gave me some breathing room. Turns out they run a version of linux and with newbie level hacking you’ve got a quick and dirty 1 TB box.

-setup a user with the web interface
-install this firmware to get ssh up + follow directions to have ssh on reboot
-turn off the mionet daemon
-profit!

You can now ssh to the user you created and su to root, no password.

Installing screen required a small patch, thanks to the gentoo people.

It’s fans blow too loud for the media room but I’m having a little fun.

The Shining freaked my out as a young child. My best friend’s mother, Bev Davies, took myself and her son Keif to her friends house and we watched it on…well it was either VHS or Beta. The movie itself was scary but the part that really, really got me was when either her or her friend said, “I know that hotel, it’s just south of here in Oregon.” They then proceeded to take a coffee table book from the shelf and find pictures of the hotel. That sent me over the edge for the next few years. I managed to overcome those childhood fears and watched it a few times since, but this will forever make it easier: