Fiddlesticks
I jumped into my car this morning to drive to San Francisco for early morning mass and then work. When I turned on KPFA radio to listen to Sunday morning Bach for my drive I heard an announcement about the Gay Pride Parade today. I decided that driving in downtown San Francisco was out of the question today so I came back home. I'm really annoyed with myself for forgetting about that, I could have gone to mass yesterday or the 6:30 in Walnut Creek this morning if I'd planned ahead. Oh well, this gives me a chance to blog. ;-)
I bought a
Sony Clie the other day. I love it! I had resisted getting anything like that for a long time saying they are too small to be any use, but now that I have it I'm very glad I finally got it. I bought a compact keyboard for it that doesn't work, that is annoying. I'll get that working eventually though I'm sure. If nothing else I will get one from Sony, I hadn't realized they made one, I'm certain
that one would work, unlike the Belkin device I can't seem to make work at all.
The best thing I've discovered about this device so far is E-Books. I didn't think that would be something I'd like, I was wrong. A handheld is much like a small book, I can hold it in one hand, read it anywhere at all, and it holds tons of stuff. So far I have the Daily Office for the week on it, a book I'm reading called "+he Way", two Bibles, King James and New American (Catholic), two books by G. K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy" and "Heretics." I've also got two collections of writings from the early church fathers, from the first two hundred years after Christ. Very cool to have all that in my pocket, along with my notes for work, my address book and my calendar, synchronized with my Yahoo calendar as well. :-) It's a very neat tool. Battery life is excellent too.
In addition to all
that it does email and web browsing via Wireless hotspots like at Starbucks, though I haven't tried to figure that part out yet, I
will get around to it eventually.
It also has a built in camera, not that I really
need that part, but it might be handy.
In all I'm very pleased with it, and rather surprised by how useful it has become already.