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 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.

I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use on Android; unfortunately some keys weren’t recognised at all and others weren’t quite mapped as I’d like. This is fairly easy to fix as an end user, as long as you have a rooted device (adb remount must succeed). Update: this is less likely now than in 2010. Here’s a quick howto anyway, since I couldn’t find one.

Now that my various projects seem to be mostly behaving themselves, it’s time to decide what to write next. I’ve had a few requests and a few ideas, so here’s a rundown of possibilities.