Monthly Archives: December 2005

Oh, Now THAT’s Cool! Great Christmas Gift for Treo Owner

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Ok, I found what I want for Christmas. I just found out today that this would work with a Treo 650. I’d seen it before and thought it would be great for an Ipod or some such… but the stereo expansions for the Ipod have become pretty common.

This is a portable stereo booster for the Treo 650!

Awesome way to listen to my audiobooks and my music WITH someone else, without the tin-sound of a mono speaker.

Yeah, this is it, what I want… wonder if it’s too late to tell Santa…

Altec Lansing iM4 Portable Audio System

The Palm Store is offering free overnight shipping on all orders placed before December 22nd too… so you could buy it and get it there in time for Christmas… soooo tempting, isn’t it?

I may just have to buy it for myself next month… for my birthday! Then again… maybe I’ll order it now and just SAVE it until next month… uh-huh. I’m so good at waiting for things. Yeah, right.

Things that Make You Go… Hmmmm…(things to do with your RSS)

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Ok, picture the scene… I’m working with a client, helping her to develop her webpage and we are talking about her blog.

I’ve encouraged her to offer an RSS feed and we are discussing the way to advertise that fact on the web.

I think a casual approach might be best, given her business model. I think that something off-hand like “Get” or “Grab” may be the right term… until I type it in my notes…Then it hits me that:

“Grab My RSS”

is probably not the most professional sounding way to approach this problem. It doesn’t look casual and off-hand, it looks off-color. I also determine that “Get My RSS” isn’t any better.

Soooo… I decide it’s time to quit for the evening, before my tired brain implodes.

Today, I saw a tee-shirt on CafePress that is quite confident about the RSS issue. It invites people to:

“Kiss My RSS”

Maybe I was onto something afterall…

LOL

Linux for the Palm?

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Ahhh, it’s happening!

On the heels of the announcements that the Treo 700w, windows-based device will soon be released in the US comes more news about Treo operating systems.

A recent acquisition of a Linux software developer by Palmsource indicates another, more “user-developer” friendly version of the Treo may be available soon…In a recent report on Palm Addicts:

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20051206A8051.html

Cindy Aten reports that a Linux-based model of the Treo may soon be available in China!

The article quotes the VP of Palm’s Asia-Pacific (Palu Blinkhorn) when he made the announcement on a China, where the Treo was recently released.

It appears, to me, that regardless of the operating system (Palm, Win, Linux) … that the current and future generations of the Treo are going to be here to stay for awhile.

I know that I can’t imagine going back to a “standard’ phone device. It’s just too nice having an office full of communications tools in my pocket.

Proof That You May Not, At First, Do Well in What you Enjoy Most

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My youngest son is struggling in his classwork right now. He’s been living with his father for the last few months and I’ve not been as involved with his classwork, due to the difference in geography.

Now, he’s coming home and he’s cramming for final exams. He LOVES his AP World Civ course. Loves it. He’s also barely passing. It’s not normal for him to do poorly in school, so it’s particularly tough on him right now.

He says… “How can I have such a lousy grade in something I enjoy so much?”

Hmmm….I think that, like business endeavors, he needs to evaluate his approach to the issue, rather than assuming that he shouldn’t enjoy the class merely because his grades are dipping low. Continue reading →

Microsoft Releases the Beta of Windows Live Local

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After all the hubbub over Google’s satellite earth imagery product… MS has launched the beta of their own local, imagery product in certain locations (one of which is right here in Kentucky… in Lexington). I used the bird’s eye view to zoom into my past — and found the apartment where I lived when I met Wayne (we met back in college) just off the University of Kentucky campus on Conn Terrace. Continue reading →