The list version

(Yes, there are a lot of broken links on some of these pages. One of these days I’ll do something about that.)

My blog is at http://beowabbit.livejournal.com/, which is a good way to keep up with what’s going on in my life.
My photo gallery (last updated 2007; most of my photos are on Flickr or Tumblr, but some things may continue to appear here as well).
Clip art for public use
- Some LiveJournal userpics you can use
Information about places I frequent
(E.g. restaurant menus, directions to a sauna, and my commentary.)
Opinions
Memes I find interesting
The aqtools (formerly jstools) package
My iPAQ Linux page (ancient and low-content).
My Agenda VR3 page (ancient).
My big list of Android apps (new)
My current (and recent) reading list (out of date; last updated 2001.02.13)
Linux/Unix tools and scripts
Astronomy
Personal interests
( Natural languages · Typography and calligraphy · Politics and current events )
Linux information
(This will mostly be recipes for how to do particular things with Linux; there’s not much here yet.)
Sexuality
- The Biversity Boston calendar has moved to www.biresource.org
- I still maintain the Poly Boston web pages, but they’ve moved to http://polyboston.org/. There’s also a calendar of events there.
Recreation
( Contra dancing · Music · Travel · Reading )
- Monterrey (Mexico) travelogue and pictures (and thumbnails)
- Durban (South Africa) pictures (and thumbnails)
Professional interests (old, not currently maintained)
Education
Other people’s home pages (old, not currently maintained)

The Agenda VR3 PDA

What is it?

The Agenda VR3 is a Linux-based PDA using a MIPS CPU similar to those used in Windows CE machines. For now, I wouldn't recommend one over a Palm for PDA functionality, but it's a neat hacking platform, and likely to improve quickly, since all the software is open-source.

Links

I keep my more frequently used bookmarks at http://www.aq.org/, and there are a bunch of Agenda bookmarks there at http://www.aq.org/agenda.html. Rather than try to maintain the same information in two places (one of which is sure to become stale), I'll just point there.

My experiences with the Agenda

My first impression of the Agenda, mostly written the day after I got mine.
My complaints about and suggestions for the Agenda's handwriting recognition and on-screen keyboard and their interaction with apps. (updated 2001.08.28)
My mini-review of the Agenda's included PIM applications (basic PDA functionality), with screenshots and comparisons with the corresponding PalmOS apps. (updated 2001.08.28)

Agenda software builds

The Agenda ships with a cross-compiler for Intel Linux, so it's easy to get started building stuff for it.

TEA Total

I didn't see any encryption software available, and I use things like Secret and Secure Memo Pad on my Palm to hide things like web site passwords and the combination to the lock on our barn. So I found an appropriate-looking piece of software, TEA Total, and built it for the Agenda. I also added a few convenience scripts to minimise the amount of typing. There's no GUI - I'd like to add one, but that will require learing C++ and FLTK. For now, you just run the stuff in the Agenda's terminal application (a modified RXVT).

The TEA algorithm is described at http://vader.brad.ac.uk/tea/tea.shtml.
The source for TEA Total came from http://www.linuxhacker.org/tea-total/.
Here's the README from my port, describing how to install and use it. (It assumes you've already got PPP to your Agenda working; if not, check out some of the sites in my Agenda bookmarks.)
US and Canadian citizens can send me email to get the actual tar file with the binary and scripts. I hope to put it up on the web in the future, but I understand there's some government paperwork I need to do first. When you untar it you'll get the MIPS teatotal binary, the scripts and symlinks, installation instructions (in the README), notes on how I built it, and a copy of the complete original sources from linuxhacker.org.

Please let me know if you find this useful or if you have suggestions for improvement.

Jay Sekora <js+agenda@aq.org>
last modified 2001.11.25