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Palm finally announced the Treo 700p on Monday. Damn the cellphone industry takes *so* long to come out with new models. I just don't understand. This would have been a killer phone 8 months ago.

Sprint says they'll have it by the end of this month. I might have to get it because my habit of always waiting for the next thing is getting sort of annoying. On the other hand, the Nokia N93 will probably only be 1 month out at that point, so I might not be able to help myself.

The problem with the 700p is that besides the EV-DO (which, to be fair, completely rocks) it isn't really any better than the 650 which I could have bought like a year ago. So it kind of makes me feel like I waited for nothing. And strangely, this makes me want to not buy it and wait even longer.
- jim 5-17-2006 7:10 pm [link] [1 comment]

Apple announced new MacBooks yesterday. That's the new monicker for the old iBook. Very nice machines. The high end now comes in black in addition to the traditional white still offered across the line. But it's $150 more for no apparent reason. That's kind of silly. Otherwise these machines are great, and plenty powerful. Starting at $1199 (well, $1099, but you need at least 1 GB of RAM, so $1199.) I'd just get the cheapest one (with the added RAM.)

Unfortunately I need to milk my 867 TiBook for a while more. If I can make some money by January I'll get the Memron MacBook Pro when it comes out, but that's a pretty big "if".

Anyway, I know at least 3 people who were waiting for the MacBooks so maybe I'll get to play around with one.
- jim 5-17-2006 7:06 pm [link] [2 comments]

Just off several solid days of coding. It's so fun to be able to dive in deep and not come up for a while. It's hard work, but at the same time I feel lucky to be able to do it. I wish I could explain more what I am working on. I'm not very good at that though (or writing documentation which is sort of the same thing.) In any case, the deal is that I am about to put this software behind several customer sites, but once I do that I effectively freeze any substantial overhaul of the software, since I can't break compatibility (like different URL schemes, say,) with already running sites, and I don't want to have a bunch of different forks of the same project (because that's what happened last time and it is a nightmare for maintenance.)

So everything is going to run on the same version of the software, and I need to have the core of it set in stone before I start or it's just going to be a headache. And after this past week (well okay, I was useless on Sunday, but otherwise...) I'm pretty much there.

Now I just need a little attention on the mail server to stem the spam deluge and I will be ready to go. Not finished, by any means, but ready to start finally. God I am slow. But I guess slow is better than nothing.

Hopefully I can write something about the software at greater length. It really is sort of interesting. It goes way beyond blogs.
- jim 5-17-2006 7:00 pm [link] [add a comment]

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