New PDA
First off, I apologize for falling behind, here. Things have gotten a bit on top of me the last month or so. Or correctly: I’ve let things get on top of me.
Ah, well. We live, and sometimes we learn, as a very wise person once said. (Scrooge McDuck, if I recall correctly.)
One factor, I admit, was a system-wide infection that appears to have resulted, improbably, from my jamming my right elbow while scuffle hoeing - not as fun as it sounds, but fun withal, especially if you hate weeds - a bit too enthusiastically. I don’t see how this works, given that I didn’t end up any more holes in my body than I started the day with, but infection got introduced somehow, and my elbow swole all up with something called “olecranon bursitis.” This had the effect of knocking me on my ass for days, causing me to sleep much of the time and fuzzing my thoughts most of the rest.
Ah, well. Better now. Even if I still can’t do kettlebells for a few days yet until the elbow pain goes away completely.
Where were we - oh, yeah. Got my new PDA. It’s not all that new anymore, inasmuch as I got it about a month ago now (I told you I was a bit behind.) It’s a Palm TX.
I really like it. It’s got a fast processor for a handheld and 100 MB of usable RAM onboard. I can, and will before too long, buy a 2 GB SD card for some ridiculous price like $25. As it is I have a dozen or so novels stashed in eBook form, and I’ve barely dented the capacity.
The real thing that put me over the top was the color 320 x 480 screen. As mentioned before, I just wasn’t going to settle for anything less than the beloved Miss Clié’s 320 x 320 hi-rez greyscale. A friend of mine who came over to help me commission my swamp cooler (by which I mean, did all the hard, scary stuff on my new slippery red-metal roof, while I stayed on the ground and fetched and made helpful noises) had just bought a TX a couple weeks before. Looking at its nice, big, clear display settled my mind.
Of course, after the nature of things, a week or so ago I got an email from this friend profusely apologizing for recommending the TX to me. His had gone south and he’d faced a world of static from Palm “support.” I assured him, truthfully, that while I had made up my mind finally based on getting to see and handle his TX (that just sounds wrong, but it’s gonna no matter what write, so heck with it) I had already pretty much fixed on it both because of the specs and because it was the top-rated PDA I found on both Amazon and ZDNet.
In all events, my TX continues to function fine, and I’m really pleased with it. Of course you realize this means the next time I turn it on it’ll refuse to display in anything but Urdu … still. There are some ramifications to my having the machine, including for my take on electronic publishing, and a new blog I think has a lot of interest to it.
But I have to save something for tomorrow’s entry.