Back in March, I complained about a crowded notification drawer, and hey, look, they fixed it. (Even if any given app isn’t on board with this yet, hello apktool/baksmali, bye bye notification icon.) So, clearly I should complain more often. :-)

So, hands up if your notification bar looks like this…

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

(Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

Over the past month or so, the “nymwars” have become the thing Google+ is most known for among my circle of friends. This is a problem of Google’s own making: they are suspending profiles based on naive heuristics about “real names” (actually typical two part western names), and demanding government ID to reinstate them.

Over the bank holiday weekend I found time for some maintenance on the Android port of Simon Tatham’s Puzzles. For users, this mostly means a few interesting new grid types in Loopy now that I’ve caught up with upstream. As always, you can update on Android Market, or manually on the project website.