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Palm To Bluetooth To Motorola V330 To T-mobile, Nothing But Net
I’m still not exactly sure why it broke, but I was able to get my network connection back up on my palm over my phone. The problem might be on the palm, but for all I know, could still be the result of a configuration change on the T-mobile side, but what I do know [...]
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Palm Bluetooth GPRS/Edge connection to T-mobile failing.
Dear LazyWeb, 2 days ago, my T3 locked up. not that odd of an occurrance, but it hasn’t happened in months, almost a year. To get the palm up and running again, I had to restore from a backup, which, was a week old. not that big of a loss. Everything came back up, and [...]
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Questions You May Have About The Prius
The Morning News has a great Q&A about the Prius: Q: Can you describe the quality of the Prius’s silence when you pull up to a stoplight and the gas engine shuts off entirely? A: It is the deepest, bone-settled stillness of a kind only experienced by the greatest Zen masters after many decades of [...]
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Warwalking
Meg and I took the dog and my laptop for a walk around the neighborhood tonight. I found 18 wireless networks, 15 of which were unsecured. 5 of which were named “linksys” it’s enough that the thought of cancelling my cable service and mooching from the neighbors stayed in my mind more than briefly. I’ll [...]
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Tilty Table == Cool
When we were at the Maryland Science Center, in the post below this one, I saw some very cool tech, using Keyhole maps from Google. The Tilty Table is similar to this DIY project that made the rounds around the net a few weeks ago, it’s a vertically mounted projected over a flat surface. The [...]
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Mac is Intel Processors
So, in the famous 1984 ad… Big Brother was supposed to be IBM, right? But We know IBM has been making PowerPC processors for a while now, so why does the news that Apple is going to transition to Pentium4-D chips seem so weird? Coupled with the fact that basically the main buyer of PowerPC [...]
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This is more a note to myself, as I want to remember this link on setting up Bluetooth DUN in Gentoo. I just need to figure out where my USB Bluetooth dongle got to... (1)
Google Local Mobile
Go to Google Local, sure that page doesn’t look like much in your fancy pants desktop browser, but it has just increased the usefulness of my PDA by about a factor of 5. Sure, it kinda replicates what my Car’s DVD nav can already do, but this updated more often, and I don’t have to [...]
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Palm… ok?
My palm came back a few days ago, I think it may actually be fixed. Here’s hoping.
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My Palm Likes To Travel
My T3 has grown weary of my pocket and decided it wants to travel, see the world via the back of a FedEx truck. Yes, I got it back just a few days ago, and has since gone all batman-wacky again. the warranty repair company is sending a fresh box, so back on the road [...]
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