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Wednesday, January 30, 2002 |
Theory: you start doing crazy things when you buy a car that handles snow well. Proof, Exhibit A: Me. Tonight the whole family went out in the snowstorm to go grocery shopping. Yeah, I know what you're thinking and you're right. We're nuts. But here's the part I want to share with you.
The kids, ages seven and six, predictably got bored after five minutes, and what did they want to do? Guess. Go on, guess. Okay stop because you'll never guess. In the supermarket, they both wanted to play with my Sony Clie PDA (I actually have the 710, but they don't make it anymore). They both like to draw in Diddlebug, and we've used it as a way to do flashcards for letters and numbers in the past while waiting in the doctor's office. Tonight, Kailee instinctively figured out that she could practice her cursive writing in the program, and then she discovered the calculator that let her do math. After a while, I had to get it away from her so that Brent could play "the blocks game" on it (Tetris). Did I mention they're seven and six? And they've never once had to ask how to hold the stylus; they just know.
9:07:29 PM 
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Lori is looking for contributors for The Handheld Librarian. My problem is that I don't have time to post to multiple places, so I'm afraid I haven't been very helpful in this respect. I'm categorizing my posts though, and one term I use is "PDAs," so how can I automatically send those posts to the HL blog? I know it can be done, but I'll have to take some time to figure it out. I'll have to learn it for SLS anyway, but if you've done this before or have suggestions, I'm an open book. Also, please contact Lori if you're interested in contributing!
9:02:24 AM
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BBC bans use of non-MS PDAs "...now an internal memo leaked to Silicon.com reveals that it has banned staff from using any non-Microsoft PDA with company machines. So BBC staffers using Palms and Psions (Psion, incidentally, is based not a molotov cocktail's throw from Beeb HQ) can deem themselves security threats, and have until summer of next year to switch or stop using them with the company kit."
This is especially depressing because Europeans have a broader range of choices for PDAs. I can't wait to see what the BBC says when someone issues the first report of problems with PocketPC 2002 security.
8:34:02 AM
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Comments by: YACCS
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