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[via Chris>

I returned my library books a few days late. I had to pay $1.50. The lame thing was that I was going to renew them online on the due date (Sunday) but their website was closed until Tuesday because of the holiday. When I worked at the library in high school, there was a grace period for holidays. Anyways, I put the new due dates into my Pocket PC (which is named R2D2) so hopefully I can get the books back in time.

We have a houseplant by the window that we use to guage when we need to water all the houseplants. After watering this one, the leaves will perk up in about an hour. I set up the tripod and captured an image every minute, then took the series of pictures and made this movie.

So I have been using my Dell Axim for a few days now, and I gotta say I love it! With the wireless card attached, I can browse the Internet and check email from the comfort of my bed and not bother Mariko and Bay. It powers on instantly and is almost as light as a paperback. I have a bunch of eBooks to read on it now, and because of the backlight, I don’t have to turn on the bedside lamp.

I used to have a Palm III which I loved, but I ended up not using it. The problem was the batteries. It used 2 AAA batteries, but it was a hassle to recharge. When you needed to change batteries, you had switch them out really quick. If you didn’t, all your data would be wiped and you would have to sync with the desktop to restore it. This was a huge pain in the butt. I guess the new Palms (starting with the Palm V and up) have charging cradles which rectified the problem. My Axim also has the cradle which recharges the battery inside the unit, as well as a spare battery. The cradle is also attached to my desktop computer for syncing my contacts, inbox, and calendar, among other things.

I downloaded a couple cool backgrounds for the today page. I haven’t even started to search for games… Tonight I am going to load the demo of Pocket Quicken so I can keep track of our budget and hopefully curb my spending.

Last week I got a Dell Axim pocket pc. It is very cool. It came with a wireless card so I can be on the web and check my email from anywhere in the house. The best thing about it is that it turns on instantly. It also has media player on it so I can listen to mp3’s on it too.