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Total distance: 350km. Total time: 11h.

Ok, so maybe I rode only 110km and 5h 20min but who’s counting…

In the end it was many small things conspiring against me that convinced me to quit the ride and just skip to relaxation part of my holiday. The weather was not bad, but somewhat depressing, there was constantly a hint of rain; breaking the spoke wore me out too early and made me lose confidence in my bike. Later on I would’ve been riding along roads with nothing within 20km or so if memory serves. Not a nice place to notice something broken.

Worst of all, though, I think was the utter lack of practice. When I did the same trip three years ago I hadn’t done any long distance rides prior either. But the difference was that I did some extra 20km rides several times a week (in addition to getting to work and back.) This summer I haven’t managed to ride much. Thought it didn’t matter that much. It did.

Not a bad trip by any means. I could’ve taken shorter distances per day, but I felt it better to spend the few days I had totally relaxing. I may need to consider trying this again next summer.

Well, I was supposed to hit the road already today, but decided to sleep in another day because the forecasts were suggesting rain for half the day, I was missing stuff, hadn’t managed to pack yet, was too lazy to clean up the apartment, etc… Just like the last time, at least the weather part.

Now I’m all packed and ready to go. I’ll just ignore the forecasts and get riding first thing in the morning anyway. Normally that would mean 10:00 or so, but I’ll try to get up earlier. Total distance is roughly 350km, tomorrow I’ll be riding 180km or so, depending on how well things go.

Unfortunately I managed to completely drain the battery on my 770 and I can’t recharge it anymore (power management needs some final fine tuning.) There goes my mobile browser, so there won’t be any updates before I get back. Main point of this vacation is to stay as far away from computers as possible.

Yes, I was probably the last person to touch the maemo subversion repository before it died, I even made the mistake of announcing it. But no, I don’t believe that had anything to do with the borkage. Unfortunately root was unavailable for comment.

Congrats to Nat for winning the challenge. Remember to party extra hard tonight to really PJSW. Also thanks to rml for relaying Nat’s progress, it was entertaining. Nat and rml make a great duo I’d say.

I’ll be starting my own trip on Monday (I hope, forecast says it’s going to rain… like the last time I did the same trip.) Had Nat also ridden back, I’d be considering making the trip in one day instead of two. Good thing he took the ferry. Remembering the last time I’d probably be riding the last half aching everywhere. Doesn’t really sound like too much fun.

I broke the blog again posting an entry with non-ascii characters with gnome-blog. I can’t recall whether that was gnome-blog or NewsBruiser problem, but the end result is that trying to read the blog gives a traceback instead.

This time around I got the bright idea to get the tarball of all my blog entries to see which ones are broken (as gnome-blog error is as informative as xmlrpclib error) Once I knew the entries which were broken (they were zero byte files) it was easy enough to delete them and get things back in working order.

I’ve now ridden my bike for over 6000km during the last four years. I’m not really sure that’s a big achievement, but crossing a 1000km barrier should count for something. On Monday my vacation starts and I’ll try to get off my lazy ass and ride to our summer cottage in Seinäjoki. It’s about 350km ride, should take two days like the last time.

NRJ are evil 🙂 First they make you sing karaoke, then they play your performance on air unaccompanied. And if the humiliation isn’t sufficient yet, they even have a contest where you guess the song the other guy was presenting.

And no, I’m not participating…

Luc sent the announcement today:

Starting from now, a subversion repository is available for everyone at:

   https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo

   login   : guest
   password: guest

Currently just a few packages were imported, but expect all the others to pop up in the coming days/weeks. Bleeding edge development and latest bug fixes will happen there.

Stay in tune!

(Announced in maemo-developers)

Got my new phone today. Packaged in a box large enough to hold a laptop. …from 80’s.

Bluetooth worked pretty much out of the box with the 770, though I think I managed to expose some bugs in the process. Then again, I always seem to be finding bugs whenever I touch something.

Tried to get BT working on my laptop as well to get images transferred off the phone. gnome-bluetooth seems nice, though I never got as far to see it working. Enabling BT on the laptop with Fn+F5 simply freezes the whole thing. *sigh* Still considering swithing to Ubuntu, though I should probably try a live CD first, just in case.

I’m not going to ruin my vacation with it, though, I’m planning to spend it far away from computers.

Carrying a backpack while riding a bike is making me soaking sweat these days. So, guess what happens the very same day I decide to leave most of the usual baggage home, including little things like pump and tube repair kit?

It’s a bit too hot to my liking when you wake up bathing in sweat, night after night. I’m having hard time believing I’m still in Finland. I’d consider getting air conditioning if it weren’t utterly useless for the other 350 days a year. Maybe I’ll just fill the bathtub and sleep there.

Met with OpenedHandians (that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it…) at debconf on Monday. It was good to see them again. Didn’t bother much with the official program, we decided to eat ice cream instead. And as usual mallum had some cool gadgets to show off.

Unfortunately the wireless network at HUT is blocking VPN usage all too well, I had to get back to the office today to get some work done. Given that I’m starting my vacation next Monday and there’s (always) still so much more work to do I wonder if I’ll manage to visit debconf again before the weekend. And I just noticed that lool (Galeon Debian maintainer) is also visiting…

Managed to (finally) import next to latest Hildon-patched gtk+ version to maemo subversion repository, which should be announced real soon now.