This week… there was lot’s of Android

This week has been another bumper week of exceptional busyness. So… let’s see what I’ve got up to this week:

• So near the end of this Node.js project for Green Man Gaming that it hurts! Hoping to have it properly finished in the next week or so.
• Restarted some work on Android again. Looking specifically at Content Providers and Services for something rather cool. Or, at least I think it is.
• Talking of Android… Tweetdeck released their Android Beta client this week and Max has done an amazing job with it. The leap forward in scrolling reminds me of the same leap that Tweetie took on the original iPhone.
• More Android… I unrooted my Nexus One. I’ll post a guide for how to do that at some point. I had never unlocked it using the standard ‘fastboot oem unlock’ method – so I could unroot it using a lot of recovery/image trickery. Glad I am now back on stock again. Not that CyanogenMod is bad or anything. Just that I’d rather go back when 6.0.0 is released finally I think.
• Had to replace the battery on one of my MacBook Pro’s this week (the 2008 Unibody that had the removable battery). It was… bulging! I know that’s not a great sign of a battery’s health, so bought a new one and then went back to the Regent Street store to hand in the old one. They are legally required to take them back… and they did without any argument. In fact, I think they were shocked that someone actually did it!
• This week I installed the second Graphics Update from Apple made available via ADC. Well, I can’t talk too much about it… but WOW they’ve made some massive improvements.
• Discovered a new board game called Pandemic this week when a friend bought it round for after dinner entertainment. Never played a board game where the board plays against the players. Made for an interesting bit of entertainment.

There we go – that covers off this week… now onto the next week…