Happier

OK, I got 244 words in Graffiti last night, and more this morning when I resurrected the Palm keyboard by installing an updated driver. (Maybe it was the accompanying reset that did the trick, I dunno.) Graffiti may actually be an input method slower than my thought process, which takes some doing. Many ideas this morning, and I don't feel any worse than I did yesterday, so I'm more hopeful about the weekend.

Friday Flower Blogging

Pear Blossom UA campus, February 2007

I nearly forgot this today, but here's some of that pear blossom I mentioned the other day.

Very small gigabytes and other 21st century pleasures

Last week I ordered a couple of 1Gb mini-SD cards -- on sale at about $9 each -- and they arrived today. The cards are not much bigger than my thumbnail, smaller than a postage stamp and not that much thicker, but the boggling thought is that even smaller versions -- microSD -- exist as well.

I've been having more fun with the new toy, including getting 530 words into it one way and another. It's probably more computer, in some ways, than my 1997 laptop, and more than adequate for plainish text editing with the keyboard in place; even with the stylus I can manage a few sentences in an odd ten minutes, but I'm not very good at Graffiti yet. It was also fun to sit at the bus stop this evening and check the weather forecast thanks to the University's public wireless network.

I'm up to 23,251 words on Ambassador, and hoping for more this weekend; it's at the brain-eating stage. I'm off to Phoenix; we'll see if the Palm keyboard will work on the shuttle.