I added a link to the blog of my new coworker Larry Karnowski. Like a surprising number of people at Oculan, Larry is quite multitalented. Not only is he a Sierra Hotel coder, he is also a music conniseur as well as a volunteer firefighter. He writes a damn good blog.
Pay a visit to Larry and tell him I sent ya. (You can do that because unlike this site, Larry’s lets you leave comments. ) 🙂
While in my local Target store the other day, I spied a familiar sight on the toy shelf: an electronic football game much like the one my brothers and I wore out as a kid.
Mattel has re-released their Mattel Classic Games, meaning you can now drive a new generation nuts with electronic beeps and buzzes. Will they compare to the GameCube’s of today? Maybe not in their technological prowess, but they’re still mighty fun!
Rock on!
I’ve been too busy to blog much lately. Lots of my offtime was spent in getting my Zaurus back in working order. I brought it into work earlier this week with the aim of getting things set up to sync with my desktop. Instead, I wound up breaking the networking in it to the point where it wouldn’t connect to the network at all.
I used the opportunity to start over with the Zaurus, installing the newest ROM. Boy am I glad I did! The Z’s interface has been redesigned, with lots of apps easier to use and the filemanager better integrated. Plus, the networking support for my Socket WiFi card is included. Major kewl.
I still can’t sync over the network with the new Qtopia desktop, and the email client lacks SSL support, but other than that I’m pretty happy with my Z. There’s a lot of computing power packed into this little handheld.
I should also mention that completely killed my Win98 installation during my work to upgrate the Z’s ROM. Problem apparently was in the way I installed USB drivers I didn’t need. The error was completely mine and not the fault of Sharp, but it did cause me lots of grief.
I may take the time to upgrade to XP or W2K on my home desktop (in addition to Red Hat Linux, of course).
