Palm And Expansion Cards

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I don’t like the way Palm handles expansion cards. I took some pictures with my Treo camera and by accident saved them to the SD card. I cannot send the pictures via email while they are on the SD card. No problem I think, I can just copy them to the main memory and I am off. no problem. Wrong! the camera software doesn’t have a copy utility. Filez the file browsing software that I have just lets you see where stuff is. It doesn’t let me copy or move stuff. So I know exactly where the pictures are, but I cannot do anything with them on my Treo. I need to offload them to a PC and then move them to the Palm. how stupid is that?

Pocket PC’s handle expansion cards like another drive. Why can’t Palm???

Pocket PC WiFi

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I received my Sandisk SD/IO WiFi Card yesterday. I ordered an 802.11b card for my Compaq iPaq 1945 Pocket PC. My goal is to be able to sync wirelessly my iPaq with Avantgo when my laptop is not at home. Also to be able to browse the web via wireless on the iPaq.

The setup was almost painless. The drivers installed fine. Getting the Wifi key to work was another story. Who knew that even if you don’t use a HEX code for your wifi the windows pocket pc needs you to convert it to HEX. once that was done and a reset later I got an IP address. things looked good from there. My problem is when I sync or use IE with the network card, my Pocket PC slows to a crawl. A soft reset fix’s things but then the card doesn’t find the network. I was too busy yesterday to troubleshoot the problem further, but it was frustrating.

I hope to look at the problem more today if I don’t go home and go right to sleep.

When Migraines Attack

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Monday was a hit or miss kind of day. Most of the day I felt ok. I started getting a migraine about lunch time. I forgot to bring my med’s with me so Cari was nice enough to lend me some Furiset. I had that and ate lunch and felt better for most of work. On the way home I started to crash again. I ended up getting home and going right into bed. This was 7PM. I got up at some unknown time during the night for a class of water and then I was back in bed for the rest of the evening. I haven’t done that in a while. I needed the sleep but it is weird going right to sleep when you get home from work and then get up and go to work the next day.

I do feel allot better right now. I don’t want to push my luck but hopefully I have kicked the sick streak. I did have to take migraine medication Saturday, Sunday, & Monday.

The plus side was I completed work normally Monday. That is always important to me. I don’t like to loose work over a stupid headache.

Getting Rid Of The Tivo???

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I have actually been having thoughts about getting rid of the Tivo. I know you must think I am crazy. I love that thing. It is like a pet or something, but yes it is true I have had thoughts about getting rid of it. Why you ask? I have been looking into ReplayTV. I have heard good things about it. Not sure if they will stay around even after they have been bought up. See ongoing legal saga regarding ReplayTV.

I am hearing that it is just plain better than Tivo.

Weekend Update

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I have mostly kicked my cold. I have a slight cough and runny noise but otherwise I feel much better. Of course Alison is sick now. Also Keith called yesterday and he is not coming in today because of a fever. I have (or someone else has) successfully passed on the bug.

Last night my family went to Peter Lugar’s. As usual it was a fantastic steak. I think morgan liked the bread and water more though! What does she know, she is 1. I had the steak for 2 with my brother in law. It was dam good. I even made room for desert. Cheese cake. It was good too.

Unfortunately I had to take migraine medication both Saturday & Sunday. Saturday a mild head ache was dogging me all day. By the evening I took the drugs because I felt it might deteriorate quick. That is the big fear, so I took some Furiset.

Sunday I took the meds because I wasn’t sure if I was getting one but I wanted to be ok for dinner. I didn’t want to have to cancel twice for my birthday dinner. Normally I wait too long and the drugs are less effective, today I probably took them too soon. Sometimes I feel like I am always medicating. Then I think about a really bad migraine that I have had, and I realize I don’t care if it will prevent even one of those from happening.

Sunday I got some, but not allot of work done. Instead I cleaned up my apartment. I also cleaned out my closet. I got rid of some old clothes or stuff I don’t ever wear. Then of course I went on line and got some new stuff. I spent more than I would have liked at LL Bean. I am finding I like that store allot.

OK, maybe being over the cold was a premature statement. As I sit on the train writing this I am coughing like crazy. I wont speak about being better again. That way I won’t jinx myself.

I cleaned off allot of shows on my Tivo. I got through a big backlog of stuff that I haven’t watched. I still have loads of crap on it but the recent stuff that I wanted to see is taken care of. I love getting a weekend to just sit and veg out.

My New Watch, Well Not Yet!

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I went to the jeweler today with my dad. We are nothing alike in the fashion or jewelry dept. He likes chains and bracelets, and other jewelry. I wear 1 chain I got when I was 13 and a watch. This was my first time to this jeweler. One of my dad’s best friends used to be his jeweler but he got married and moved so my dad found this new guy. I went to try and adjust the watch he gave me so it will fit on my wrist. Right now it is way too big for my wrist. Oops, didn’t get a picture of it on my wrist. It was kind of funny to see.

Turns out that I never realized what makes the Omega watch that he gave some important is that it has the original parts. The band is not the same on all the new ones and you cannot get a replacement like the one currently on the watch. That is bad for me. Since my dad has been wearing the watch for 35 years the band is worn. The links are loose. They are still in really good shape, but they kind of stretched. That means that it wont fit on my wrist correctly. The jeweler is going to see if he can fix it. If not I may have to buy a new band and just keep the old one around in case I need it.

This watch is so freak-in cool. Granted I won’t do anything crazy with it besides get it wet, but it was the watch that they wore on the moon. Can’t say that about my Casio data-link.

Now all I have to do is get used to reading a dial watch. I am so used to digital. I don’t even think I ever had a dial watch?

I will wait the week and see what they can do about getting this thing to fit on my wrist. Till next Saturday…

Make Up Steak Dinner

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I was sick the Sunday before my birthday (I had a migraine) so my family was not able to take me out for my birthday dinner. Last weekend my dad worked sunday so we couldn’t go out then. We have make up plans for this sunday. We are once again going to try Peter Lugars. The steaks there are fantastic. Hopefully my cold will be gone by then. I think it broke yesterday and I am on the road to recovery.

Spring Is Here

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Spring is upon us. I have broken out the light weather jacket for the first time in 2004. It will be 65 in NYC today. That means that my companies office will be like a sauna since I bet the heat will still be on, and the AC is not working yet.

I like the winter. You know why? You can always put on another layer of clothing. When it is hot, there is only so much you can take off! I don’t get people complaining it is too cold. I just don’t get it. Put on some gloves and a sweater. Because if it is hot you don’t want most people taking off their shirts!

Missing Sync Update

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This program is awesome. The only problem I am having is when I do a bluetooth sync. My iPaq slows way down and IE on the iPaq cannot be stopped until I soft reset it. I don’t think it is the Missing Sync software, but the Bluetooth software on the iPaq. that is my theory right now. I want to try a bluetooth sync on my PC and see what happens but so far I have been unable to get active sync to work at all with bluetooth. Plug n Play my ass. I will tell you Apple has the right idea with owning the OS and the hardware. Stuff just works.

I may actually go out and buy a WIFI card for my iPaq and sync that way over the network. That would be really cool. I am still working out the details for that. The WIFI SD/IO card is like $110.

More Treo 600 Updates

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I am using the camera more for my MoBlog. It is really cool. The Moblog not the camera. The camera sucks, but for a camera on a phone it works ok. It is not a replacement to a real digital camera.

The internet connection still works most of the time. Snapper mail is a killer app. I cannot wait for IMAP enabled version later this year. I am checking out a few DB sync programs for the Palm that will sync access db’s to my palm. that would be cool too, but so far no opinion on them yet.

I had to reinstall all my apps this weekend. I had some new piece of software kill my Treo. it kept rebooting in a loop. The backup on my PC didn’t seem to help, so I had to do a hard reset and start from scratch. Not happy about that, but I got everything back online in a few hours.