January 2006

• Kasuei Consultant Group - Hitchhiker
  WM5 WLAN connectivity toolkit.
  (tags: wm5 wlan wifi tool pocket_pc pda)
• Aspecto Software - WiFiFoFum 2
  Pocket PC WLAN stumbler.
  (tags: pda pocket_pc wlan wifi stumbler tool)

I had my first controlled Lucid Dream last night. I’ve had lucid dreams in the past, but I’ve always lost control of them as soon as I’ve realised I’m dreaming. It’s utterly frustrating. But last night. Well, I remember a golden sea front, with a market-place atop the break-wall. The sun was low, and hitting the face of the market, lighting up with golden rays, the stonework of the wall and the citadel which the market was at the foot of.

Then — an event — (I’m not saying what) triggered me to think that perhaps I was dreaming. I did a reality check by looking at my watch. It was beautiful, gold, and with no hands. “That’s a watch I couldn’t afford.”, I thought. Whereupon the watch started to age, it turned a tin-like colour and started to oxidise and crack. Then the wind picked up speed, and started blowing leaves across the market. “Ah, I’m losing the dream. I’m not lifting yet, so that’s cool. Now, what do I need to do to stabalise this world? Ah yes, I need to start running.”, I thought. I started to jog back down the front of the market place, to the stall where the previous event had occured, only to find that the stall had disappeared, upped and left. So I toyed around with some elements of the world, and then decided to wake up so I could record the details of my dream.

I lifted so gently out of the world, and so softly, as the layers of the dream were replaced with reality. I didn’t even need to rush to write the dream into my journal, I remember it as clearly now as if I was there… Reality check…  No, I’m definately here :)

I’ve already acted upon the event in the dream, seeing it as a nudge to get back in touch with a close friend. And, I feel very refreshed and renewed. 

technorati tags: lucid, dream, dreamscape, friend, reality check

• XDA-developers.com
  Community of XDA users, hackers, and developers
  (tags: xda xda_exec universal htc pda wm5)
• ComVu - yibble
  My ComVu Webcasting public live stream and archives.
  (tags: comvu webcasting personal)

I’ve been playing around with my XDA Exec, and discovering new ways in which it can serve. I don’t know anyone else with a UMTS enabled phone, and as far as I know, Skype and MSN have yet to support Video Conferencing on a Pocket PC (WM5). So, what can I do with this high speed mobile connectivity. Thanks to a company called ComVu, I can stream video to the masses, from my PDA:

ComVu has created the world’s first live video broadcast solution from a mobile device to a global audience. With the push of a button on a camera phone bloggers, citizen reporters, family members, friends and corporate professionals can broadcast live events to their communities - simply and inexpensively.

ComVu - Welcome to Mobile Webcasting

At the moment it’s free (as in, Beer) and in Beta. Extra functions include the ability to to notify various groups of contacts when I’m live, and also an online, on-demand archive of previous streams. At the moment, I’m sure it won’t take long for this excellent service to be picked up by mobbloggers everywhere. Why? Well, from what I can see in the GUI, it can automagically alert Typebad and Blogger blogs when the user is streaming. Roll on support for Wordpress.

Windows users can see the current stream, and view the on-demand archive hyar. Mobile users, you can point your browser hyar. I forgot to mention, there’s also an RSS feed to subscribe too. I think I’ll link on the sidebar, and maybe experiment with thunking e-mail notifications to blog posts :)

technorati tags: mobcasting, mobblogging, wm5, xda exec, video, skype, msn, stream, webcasting, comvu

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