Day: 1 April 2004

eBooks And Other Apps

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I bought an eBook yesterday. To most that would sound like a confession of a first time eBook buyer. I can safely say that I have been buying eBooks since 2000. When I traveled with Datastream I would put ebooks on my then Pocket PC (an HP Jordana) and use it to read when I was out to dinner or something. I used to travel by myself. It was boring at a hotel or restaurant eating by yourself. Instead of bringing a book with me to dinner, I would just have my Pocket PC that I was carrying anyway. It made things easy. I have read a few books on it.

I haven’t read any books, let alone eBooks in a while. A few people have recommended me to read the Da Vincii Code. Instead of buying the book I got the eBook at Palm’s ebook store. it was only $9.99. I put it on my iPack and am reading it using the Palm eBook reader. Palm was smart and made a reader for the Pocket PC, Palm, Mac, and the PC. I can read the book on my Treo 600 or my iPack. The iPack is better since it has a much nicer screen. I am on chapter 4. I will let you know how it is.

I also downloaded a few other free programs and utilities for my Treo 600 off of palm’s new software site, Palmgear.com. I found it when I was buying my eBook. It looks like it is competing with Handango. I like the way they setup the site. They have a my favorite software list so you can keep track of the latest versions of software you like or own. It also tells you how long you have left on trial software you have downloaded.

I didn’t buy anything, but I got a few freeware utilities that look cool. The latest filez program, a drink mixing program and a few others.

Planning

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Yesterday we began to enact our departments 3 month project plan. All development projects for the next few months are out on the table so everyone knows what is going on.

Yesterday was another one of those days where half the day was spent in meetings. I did a lot of break fix stuff yesterday. I was not able to move along any major projects (that I can remember now).

It was busy. I didn’t even get to work on my new desktop machine. My HP Evo 330 that I use as my desktop computer at work was having hard drive issues. It keep rebooting and saying it can’t find one. I would have to play with the cables and it would start to work again. I didn’t have time to deal with that so I took a HP Evo 310 something and fixed it up. On tuesday I put a 200 gig drive in it, along with the 80 gig one that was there I now have plenty of space to put VMWare virtual machines. I also pulled out the burner from my 330 and put that in it too. The 510 is a decent machine now. I use this desktop mainly as a VMWare machine. I load it up with ton’s of virtual machines and I can switch between them when needed. I also sometimes use it as a backup box to my laptop. Mainly it is for VMWare. And you know how much I like VMWare:)

Rain Day

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It is raining today. Not really hard, but a nice mist. I hate this type of weather. At least it is not hot, that is all I can say.

I got the later train today. I find it funny that I consider it late, but if I catch an 8:32AM train I am at work no later than 9:30AM. That is with stopping to pick up breakfast. Most of our dev staff isn’t in before 10AM anyway, so I am not really late. it is all relative.

If I catch the 8, or 8:15AM train’s I am at work really early or just on time. That is the difference express trains make. Today it was rainy, I wanted to shave, and I didn’t want to be on a wet crowded train while I am still recovering from a cold. Thus I am on the later train. it is never a good idea to use a laptop on a crowded wet train anyway. This way is much better.

Yesterday was low key after I got home. Work was crazy, but we are talking about other things in this entry. (Notice how I try to keep personal and work blog entries separate. That is why I may have several entries in a day. If anything I am well organized). I got home around the normal time, and I attempted to not do much work. I was successful at that BTW. watched some TV and downloaded some new stuff for my Palm.