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For more on Senator Earnest Hollings' indelibly stupid Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act visit Digital Consumer. They are organzing a Defeat CBDTPA campaign. Honestly, this bill reads like something written up by one of David Geffen's buddies at a hot tub party. It should be stopped.

Need Good Laptop Alternatives

10:21:42 PM

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My employer, iUniverse, is undergoing some reorganization and as a result I will be leaving the company at the end of July. This is a positive move for the company and will allow me to focus on some things I could not tackle before, but I will be losing my company-provided laptop.

I don't use a laptop very much -- even though I travel quite a bit -- and I don't like to carry a big, bulky, desktop replacement. I have a big, bulky desktop computer that fills that bill quite nicely. For the past two years I've carried a slimline Dell Latitude CSx, for the two years before that I carried a slimline Toshiba Portege 2000. Both had more functionality than I needed, but they were lightweight and perfectly acceptable. I just have no intention of spending $2,000 right now to buy some traveling computing power.

I primarily write with MS-Word and the occasional text/HTML editor, browse the web, manage e-mail with a POP3 client, and run Visio and PowerPoint for presentations. I'm wondering if there isn't something in the sub-$1,000 range that will do the job. I'd love some sort of tablet PC or something. Any suggestions?

Struggling with Radio Userland

8:22:33 PM

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11 days left on my trial of Radio Userland -- getting close to decision time. Good? Bad? Those aren't the right questions. The right questions are: Can I use it to good effect, to meet a goal, to further an objective?

I don't know yet.

It is an easier method of posting information than writing HTML pages (although I used Dan Bricklin's Trellix to build this site in 1997 and this one in 1999 and it was pretty easy to use.)

But I was hoping for something better in the way of collaboration. I read Jon Udell's piece on Instant Outlining and the ability of outlines to replace e-mail, but I can't get it to work. When I subscribe to outlines most of them seem to be dormant since April. That doesn't help me understand how they change, how they can be used to foster interaction.

If anyone knows what I'm missing here let me know. Right now there seems to be far more heat than light on the weblog path -- it is very useful if you are an intelligent commentator seeking a quick way to grab your audience. It's also good if you're just looking to amuse yourself by blathering (that's the feature I'm testing), but it isn't at all clear to me these things are useful in the main.

Answers, ideas, and comments welcome.

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