arthur richards

Two weeks ago, I was mountain biking in Redwood Regional Park, up in the Oakland hills. I was doing the standard 8 mile loop - a ridge trail along the western side of a canyon with a steep descent to the canyon floor, followed by a steep ascent to a trail along the eastern ridge. Almost all the way down to the canyon floor, I saw a nice clear line - let off the brakes and went for it fast. I can't totally recall what happened - I think there was some sort of lip or ledge I couldn't see from above. Going over it, I think I threw my weight forward in surprise. When my front wheel hit the ground, I flipped over the handle bars. One of those "oh. shit." moments. I landed on my left shoulder. Fortunately, some poison-oak broke my fall.

A week or so ago, I was in a mountain bike accident and broke my Motorola Razr phone (as well as my collar bone, but that's another story). It turned out to be a great excuse to finally get an Android phone.

Being a curious developer with grand plans for world travel, I purchased the ADP1 developer's version of T-Mobile's G1 through Google. For a small fee ($25) for developer access to the Android Market plus the full price of the phone, I now have a totally unlocked phone with r00t access to the phone's OS.

I will follow up in another post with a brief overview of my initial reactions, the steps I took to use a custom build of Android (JFv1.5, to be precise) and a small collection of links I used to get started. In the meantime, I've gotta take a break from one-handed typing :p

I tend to create blogs the same way I create new year's resolutions. But this will be different. I swear.