Monday, October 17, 2005

Moving to functional technology...

There are benefits for not jumping at brand new technologies. Two and a half years ago, I bought a Tablet PC - they had just come out two months prior. The Toshiba model that I had, had a bad digitizer on it -which I got replaced twice. So, what's a digitizer? Let's just say that it was like having a MagnaDoodle with the eraser bar not pushed all the way to the edge. Well, two weeks ago, I got a new Tablet - an HP TC1100. It is 100% functional. Last week's paper for my master's class - I wrote by hand, just because I could. (I'm also handwriting this post - ICYC.) (Also a great graduation gift idea for those seniors out there...)

Now, today I went and bought a new SPOT watch. I've had one for about two years - again it was very new technology when I bought it the first time. The old one was an Abacus - and the battery was loose enough that it would disconnect if the watch was jostled, and so a couple of times a day it would lose its time. (A cool watch, but I couldn't trust it for the time.) It generally reset the time between 15 minutes and 3 hours after it reset - it's an "atomic" watch, so it sets itself. My new watch is a Suunto n3. It's already much better that the Abacus! (So, now you can IM my watch with MSN IM. My IM is set up with my school email address - available here. I'm smarter than to publish an email address directly on a blog.)

So, question: What should I do with the XBox360?

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