Merde. I seem to have dropped right off the board in the Google Challenge. I don't even show up in the results for "snot cannon" anymore. Very strange.
Went out and met some friends for coffee and made the mistake of stopping in Eliot's Books on the way home. Snared a copy of Nick Hornby's How to Be Good. Am about forty pages in, and it absolutely blows me away. As I mentioned in a previous post, I really enjoyed High Fidelity, but was less enthused with About a Boy. Even so, I wasn't expecting to be drawn in so quickly into How to Be Good.
The one notable thing about this book is Hornby's protagonist. His previous works portrayed aging boy-men who slowly realize that growing up isn't so bad after all. Here we've got a forty-something woman, a doctor who's married with two kids, who is seemingly re-examining the respectable life:
"You see, what I really want...is the opportunity to rebuild myself from scratch... I want to rip the page out and start again on a fresh sheet, just like I used to when I was a kid and had messed a drawing up."
Anyway, like I said I'm only forty pages in. At this rate could very well plow through the whole thing before I go to bed.
Slashdot has posted a link to an article about the new iPaq that's scheduled to come out soon. As I mentioned in previous ramblings about Jornadas and iPaqs, the Jornada is going to be going the way of the buffalo. I also mentioned that if I had to choose a PocketPC over again, I'd go with an iPaq rather than my Jornada. Two reasons for this:
- the iPaq has a reflective display; unlike my Jornada, where the display becomes washed out if the lighting is more bright than that in your average cave
- you can upgrade the OS on the iPaq (whereas you can't on the Jornada)
Anyway, this newest iPaq is promising an even better display than previous models. Not that it really should matter to me, 'cuz I can't afford a new PDA regardless.