{"id":2920,"date":"2010-05-07T19:32:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T02:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:27:11","slug":"nexus-one-ubuntu-and-leaving-for-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/05\/nexus-one-ubuntu-and-leaving-for-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Nexus One, Ubuntu and leaving for Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday was a pretty low-key day, which I really needed after all the release parties and events. MJ and I headed over to Kate O’Briens<\/a> for lunch, turns out they have this *great* Corned Beef Quesadilla (yes, really).<\/p>\n

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I then moved the SIM from my G1<\/a> to my new Nexus One<\/a>. I had been reluctant to do it because a physical keyboard is something that was so high on my requirements list when I got my G1, and it continues to be. I am still not convinced by the on-screen keyboard of the Nexus One, but the phone itself is so much faster<\/i> than the G1 and after playing with the N1 some I couldn’t resist switching the SIM. We’ll see how I do with the on-screen keyboard, at least it’s better than the G1 (slightly larger screen means bigger keyboard, seems slightly more responsive too).<\/p>\n

This week I’ve spent cycling back to cleaning up a bunch of little Ubuntu things before UDS<\/a>. The Community Council<\/a> announced the new membership boards<\/a> earlier this week and I’ll be serving another two years on the Americas Board<\/a> (I abstained from voting on the Americas board, so thanks to my fellow CC members who once again have supported me in this position!). Today I posted the latest Ubuntu US article, an interview conducted by Amber Graner, LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Florida Team<\/a>. Today the elections for Ubuntu Women Leader<\/a> began and I added myself as a candidate<\/a>. My todo list still has some Debian work on it, as well as a pile of home sysadmin stuff (I really<\/i> need to get better backups going!) but things are at an alright stopping point for my trip to Brussels.<\/p>\n

Trip to Brussels! I’m very fortunate to be sponsored for this event, with Canonical<\/a> handling arrangements for flights, hotels and meals. At this time tomorrow I’ll be flying over the Atlantic for the second time in my life, and visiting mainland Europe for the first time. I’ve got most of my stuff ready to be packed on the table in front of me – clothes, gadgets, adapters, euros, bottle of Advil (for the mornings after all those Belgian ales, you see!). I sort of wish I had extended my trip a couple days to see the sights in the city, since the place we’re staying at is actually in La Hulpe at Dolce La Hulpe Hotel and Resort<\/a>, which is outside the city. But it will give me a nice taste<\/i> of Europe so when we come back for a real vacation it’ll really be something.<\/p>\n

Now I think I’ll start packing my piles of stuff and triple-check my list so I don’t forget anything. My flight leaves tomorrow morning local time stops on O’Hare in the early evening where there is only 40 minutes between touchdown and takeoff, that’s going to be fun. Sunday morning I’ll be landing in Brussels. Here’s hoping I can catch some sleep on the plane! If not, I’ve spent the early portion of my evening loading up my mp3 player with music and podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday was a pretty low-key day, which I really needed after all the release parties and events. MJ and I headed over to Kate O’Briens for lunch, turns out they have this *great* Corned Beef Quesadilla (yes, really). I then moved the SIM from my G1 to my new Nexus One. I had been reluctant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-tech","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12191,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/12191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}