The BigLig Thinks

So, I'm de-consolidating my handheld.

Currently I have a Sony p910i , which suits me well. But work is making me switch to a Blackberry 7290. Since this can’t do all that the p910i can, it means I have to split apart into separate gadgets.

So, the BB is going to be my phone and my remote e-mail device. Since it is my phone, it has to have my contacts. In fact all my basic PIM functions are probably going to end up here, since it is a permanent wireless slave to Outlook, which is my real PIM.

Taking photos is going to go to my Samsung Digimax 201 camera, although if I get into using it I might see if Morgan can get me a SD-card based digital camera with an optical zoom. I’ll want to see lots of posts on flickr before I part with any money, though.

Music and Video is going to go to my iPod 5G, obviously. It handles video much better than my p910i did, not thru any hardware difference, but just because it is easy to take a video, squish it to iPod format, and drag it into iTunes.

That leaves e-books, games, and remote access to servers, and for that I think it is time to take my old Palm Tungsten C out of hiding. This will probably mean going back to Brighthand, cap in hand, for advice. Ho hum. (I used to be a Palm forum moderator there, now I’m not even a distant memory)At least, since I am not using it as a PIM, I don’t need to find my old CDs to make it sync with Outlook – I can just use the free Palm Desktop.

So, all of that, my wallet, keys, and hip flask – I’m going to need a stronger belt.

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This exercising and eating vegetables lark is supposed to be good for you, but I certainly don’t feel better. Tired and grumpy all the time. Nothing to do with me being hideously unfit, of course.

Having fun at work playing with Asterisk at the moment, I was considering all sorts of choices for the distro to base it on when I realized that I like Ubuntu and that is worth quite a lot. More than the possibility of buying some expensive support contract form Red Hat in the future. And of course Canonical will sell me an expensive support contract for Ubuntu too if I need it.

sudo apt-get install asterisk, that’s the installer for me.

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An interesting side-effect of one of the benefits of Web based applications - that upgrades and changes just happen without people having to do anything - is that when they tart up the UI of an application you use every single day, it sprains your cerbral cortex.

Ouch.

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“No No Never” by Texas Lightening, the German entry in this year’s Eurovision song Contest. It’s country and western music, so not very German, but I like it a lot. I’m probably over in Germany later this year, must see if I can pick up some of their albums. I’ve got a lot on my “To Buy” music list at the moment, now I have my new iPod (I didn’t mention it, but in the end the Mac Mini was just too much to spend right now, so I went with a 30Gb fifth generation iPod instead.

Actually, I seem to be disintegrating my P910i, despite the fact that an integrated device really suited me. First, the new iPod takes over my mobile music and video playback. And next week, in my capacity as Messaging admin, it looks like I’m going to have to start using a BlackBerry, so that I can support all out execs, who are being mandated to use them (somewhat reluctantly, mind)

The problems with this are:

• The BB is, I suspect, going to turn out to be a sucky phone.
  
• While the BB and the iPod can both handle eBooks, neither will be as good as the P910i was. Being able to cut+paste some text from the web into notepad, and then beam it to the P910i over Bluetooth, was very convenient.
  
• I recently enjoyed using the dreadful P910i camera to document my trip to Den Haag (http://www.flickr.com/photos/biglig/ if you’d like to see it) and this is something that I think I’d like to play with some more.
  

The BB is a superb remote e-mail device, but there’s no way to communicate with it other than by e-mail – so no mailing photos from a digital camera with it. Of course, there are tremendous advantages to push e-mail – I’m already thinking of what I can do with automated processes. For example, I have set up a test where I can e-mail things directly to my Task List.

I wonder, if some other companies BB Connect software were to accidentally be installed on my P910i, would it work in an unsupported sort of way? Hmmm.

This post, BTW, was written in the beta version of Microsoft Word 2007 and posted up with the new blog posting functionality.

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Well, I'm trying to change, yet again. This will involve various things. I'm eating less, and what I am eating often contains vegetables and fruit. I'm drinking much much less booze. I'm doing a sort of floppy lurching that might - if you squint your eyes - be described as "running". I am no longer using the lifts at work. I am trying to write something every day - even if it's just a one-shot in my blog, or a fragment on my mobile device. I'm putting Linux on as many computers as I can get away with. All that sort of nonsense. Let's see how it pans out. so far, I'm exhausted.

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This turning over a new leaf thing is exhausting. No junk food today, fruit and vegetables to eat on the rare occasions I do eat, and for the second day in a row I not only didn't use the escalators at work, I went out for something that could charitably be called a run.
More on this to come, but now I have to sleep... Precious sleep...
Wrote 400 words of fiction yesterday. Bloody awful. But perhaps a germ of something there.

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When you unplug the headphones, for example when I disconnect from my car stereo to listen on the walk into the office, it pauses the music.
I know I've been absent for a while, more info on that tomorrow.

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