Amazon just sent me the email I've been waiting for -- my Sidekick has been shipped.

Now I just need to figure out whether Fedex thinks Monday is a business day or a holiday. If it's a business day, my Sidekick will arrive a day sooner.

I'm such a gadget freak. I'm glad my wife is sympathetic. Perhaps it's because I let her buy a lot of garden stuff. Heck, all she wanted for christmas was a gift certificate to the local nursery. I'm lucky.

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The bad part about mail-to-weblog: I can't correct stupid errors (like the overuse of the word "seems" in the previous entry) until I get home.

This is something I'm going to have to work on. I'd also like to create a Sidekick-friendly set of templates for Radio.

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The interesting developments are at the edges, where the devices get smaller and smaller. Unless we discover a way to violate the laws of physics, we will always be able to make non-portable machines more powerful than portable machines, and the way to increase the utility of those small devices is to leverage the power of those big devices through connectivity.

I'm thinking that the client/server (c/s) vs. peer to peer (p2p) cycle occurs because the edge of the network keeps moving outward out of view. We focus on the devices we have, and those get more and more powerful, moving them from the c/s model to the p2p model. In the meantime, the edges have moved beyond us, in this case from desktops and laptops to mobile phones, and mobile phone format devices (like the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick).

So it's not really a cycle. It's just interior node vs. edge node stuff. It's a gradual expansion outward into the unfilled spaces.

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But we have pets. One rabbit, a fuzzy mini-lop named Radar, and three Sugar Gliders, named Nicki, Spirit, and T-Bear. Guess it's a substitution thing.

We went through a bit of a scare last night. We took Radar in for his annual exam, which was timed well because he was acting listless, and if you know anything about small animals, that's what they do right before it gets really bad. You don't get much warning with small animals, they can go from alive to sick to dead in a shockingly short amount of time. So we were worried.

I called the vet for an update before I left work yesterday, and he was concerned -- the blood work was highly unusual, leading him to believe that Radar's kidneys were failing. He wanted to x-ray him the next day to see if there was anything obviously wrong.

Needless to say, I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. Radar has been our house rabbit since 1996. Other than a few chewed up power cords, Radar has been a wonderful companion, as close to a child as any non-human could be. It was very tough to sleep last night.

Well, we just got the news that he's going to be fine. I am sooooo relieved. I don't think I could take another emotional disaster -- there have been way too many lately.

I suppose I'll have to post some pictures of Radar when I get home.

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The thing that excites me the most is the web browser. Building web applications that target the Sidekick is an exciting thing. Now, I'm not intending on creating software that works for everyone, I'm just thinking about scratching my own itches. Think about it -- if you could have access to a computer in your house, from pretty much anywhere, what could you do with it?

If your answer to that question is "I'm not sure, but there's got to be something," then you are at exactly the same place I'm at now.

And you can be sure I'll be posting to my weblog from the Sidekick.

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