2 Bit Hacker

Well, I’ve been thinking of replacing my current Sony Clié PEG-N710C off and on for a while now, and given that it lost it’s mind unexpectedly yesterday, wiping out some data that I didn’t really want to lose, I started looking for a replacement. I came across the PEG-TJ37, pictured at left, which I’m now giving serious thought to.

It’s got the same size screen as the N710C, but it’s got a built-in camera and 802.11b networking. The camera isn’t all that great, only shoots at 640×480, but that’s fine for just taking quick snapshots of stuff when it happens. The 802.11b networking would be very cool to have, being able to check my email or do a little web browsing when I get bored and happen to be in range of an open access point. There are even SSH clients available for PalmOS that would allow me to check on my servers and stuff.

I’ve got at least a few days to think about it, since the TJ37 isn’t released until Monday. That may be enough time to talk myself out of it, not sure though.

Had a pretty good weekend, despite it being Valentine’s Day. I was originally thinking I wasn’t going to have anything to do, so made plans to head up to the Loft to hang out with the ninjas, play video games, and whatnot. Instead we had a bit of an Anti-Valentine’s Day get-together on Friday night with Amanda, Dan, Delia and Tim. We played some Jenga and just generally hung out at the apartment. Dan mentioned doing a movie night at his place sometime, which would be cool.

Saturday I spent most of the day working on Shadow, the HTPC, so that Delia could watch some of the episodes of Invader Zim that I’ve got in DivX. It’s at the point now where it outputs to the TV and can play stuff, but overscan is still having issues (apparently nVidia broke it in one of their driver versions) and I need to get the remote working again. Picked up Delia from work in the evening, hung out at her place for a bit, and ended up heading to one of the pizza places downtown to meet angry_amy and some of her friends. That was rather odd for me, since she was quite drunk. Cool to meet new people though. Hope to meet them again when they’re sober sometime.

Today has been pretty quiet. Worked on Shadow and Terra a bit, and have been thinking of doing some work on the I-Opener, but haven’t gotten that adventurous yet. Maybe I’ll save that for another weekend. Did go out for a bit to grab dinner with Tim and Ben at KFC, mostly to annoy Amanda for a bit. Also swung by Wal-Mart and picked up Metroid: Zero Mission for GBA. Played it a little bit so far, seems to have been done very well. I’ll write up a review later on, maybe.

Two quick little things this morning. Loki pointed me to an interesting post on NADD which describes me far too well. Just take a look at some of my screenshots as proof.

Also, things are going to be OK.