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Thursday, April 11, 2002State of the MOB
Excellent progress on Mobile Offline Blogger today, it should be finished tonight! Figuring out how to package everything for one-click installation may take a little longer, but a download for the hard-core Pocket PC geeks will be available tomorrow.
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Zaurus Stuff
Came across some nice Zaurus Cases for the Japanese Domestic Market. Strongly suspect that they would not hold the US model snugly, as the JDM units are wider . Hopefully these guys will adapt and obtain a US distributor. Their English is poor, but their leather products appear to be excellent.
Sharp is finally re-appearing on their own mailing lists, having been quiet for over a month, never even announcing that the SL-5500 had begun shipping. Mostly they are encouraging developers to get their products listed on Handago's Zaurus Section. There are now 50+ downloads listed, and half of them are free.
A number of the free applications come from the OPIE project, which the OpenZaurus ROM is based on. Looking at the screenshots for addressbook and today, it appears that a better Zaurus is being built. The list of OPIE packages is extensive. Unfortunately, the site is geared toward Linux geeks who want a GPL PDA solution. They need to address Ordinary User audience that simply wants to replace the lackluster Trolltech applications with better ones.
30-Second Movie Review
Tonight's movie was Bandits, via Blockbuster. A user's comment on IMDB summed it up perfectly:
Not to be put on any top 100 list, this movie was still an amazingly fun and well executed story.
Worth a rental. Buy Heat instead.
Yesterday's flick was Spy Game, which my roommate and I purchased simultaneously, unseen. IMDB quote:
Spy Game is everything we're not supposed to expect from a major Hollywood movie: engrossing, intelligent, well written, acted and directed.
Precisely. This isn't an action flick, explosions are few and far between. The most engrossing passages take place in a conference room, of all places. Redford still has it, and then some.
Buy it. Add Hopscotch as the lighter half of a CIA double-header.
Therapy
Sometimes, when the dinner guests have left and the roommate has gone to bed... Paradise becomes a big couch, a fresh DVD, and a neglected bottle of wine...
