First Post!

Well, here I am on the soapbox, what now?

I first got interested in Android back in 2008 just after tying myself into a two year contract with SFR (~ the French Vodafone) on a Samsung SGH-F490. A decent phone but it became dated pretty quickly, despite its 5 Mp camera°. 

My laptop at the time was on Vista and I got so frustrated that I made the jump to Linux*. I got interested in F/OSS vs. top-down (read: paternalistic) business models and that led me to discover Android just as the G1 was being launched Stateside. 

There was still the problem of that two year contract but as it's coming to its end this April, I finally got my hands on my first piece of Android hardware a few weeks ago... The Google Nexus One. 

I then realised that the people I know fall into three categories. People who:

1. Know of Android's existence but are total fanbois (sorry Sam, but it's true and you know it!)
2. Have never heard of it.
3. Me.

I decided to resolve this with a blog that only one of those groups will likely ever read. I've always been mature that way.

°And it had this really annoying "physical lock"/"touchpad lock" double team that made hanging up on a call like playing with imaginary Chinese stress balls.

*Ubuntu, Mint, Puppy and a handful of others from time to time, I now use both Xubuntu and Ubuntu but suggest Mint to anyone who asks.