Cloudy Thinking

After a week with my Treo 700p, I have learned (again) that things one wish for do not always turn out to be as good as our dreams.

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Jason Gale and Kristen Hallam of Bloomberg report on news from the First International Conference on Avian Influenza in Humans, and it ain’t pretty.

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BuzzShout is an interesting new site (still in beta) that provides short reviews of web services.

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David Pogue writes in The New York Times Which New DVD Format? Neither Just Yet.

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This Inquirer article is why camera phones were invented

Yun-Hee Kim writes about Motorola in The Wall Street Journal. He quoutes Simon Leung of Motorla:

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You need a command line reference . You know you do! This killer site by Simon Sheppard explains every command for Windows XP. As a no-charge extra, you also get Linux (bash shell), OS X and Oracle 9i.

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After my first 24 hours with the Treo 700p, I have two applications up and running. ChatterEmail is my IMAP savvy email client, while IM Plus just now came to life on the AOL IM network.

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My Treo 700p arrived near the end of the work day. Here’s how things are going so far.

I unpacked the Treo, plugged in the optional travel charger (very slick — it lights up to let you know it has juice.

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Last week Conrad Hunziker at Nightskyhosting, my (fabulous) ISP, installed the latest and greatest WordPress engine, 2.0.3 for my blog.
This housekeeping change should be largely transparent to you, but I’ve noticed a glitch in comments. For example, my note about ordering a Treo 700p (sadly, it did not arrive before the weekend…) has a comment, but that post says “0 comments.” We’ll have to fix that.

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After almost two years of dithering, today I ordered a Treo 700p.

I wanted the Motorola Q so much. But ultimately, my seven years of mainly positive experience with the Palm, plus the Palm-friendly IT staff here at work made the decision for me.

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John Markoff and Saul Hansell write in The New York Times about how Google is growing its computing capacity.

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