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Fallen human beings can only offer a kind of fallen forgiveness. Seems to me that forgiveness has to be a process, something that we grow into as we grow in our likeness to Christ. I hope there is a day when I can look at Alison and offer her love and grace and good-will from my heart. But a long march lays between that place and this. May God be merciful to me.
Amen, Craig. Amen.
MT 1.x-2.x users who hate seeing target=”_blank” in the comment URL’s, a tip from the support forum: open lib/MT/Template/Context.pm, then search for and delete all occurrences of the offending text. For popup comment windows, replace it with target=”_parent”. It might be wise to add an onclick=”window.close();” too.
The old Palm IIIxe I got last Christmas has been running quite well, but there’s a small problem: its USB cradle is 9-pin serial, and the iBook has only USB and Firewire ports. It took some searching, but I eventually found the Belkin Serial-to-USB PDA adapter at Circuit City. Major shortcoming: it needs drivers to run properly, and Belkin provides none for OS X. So, for some months now, I’ve had to reboot into OS 9 to infrequently Hot Sync my Palm: an inconvenience I was willing to tolerate at the time. But now I want a change.
I had initially considered replacing both my Palm and cellphone with a Treo 180, especially after reading Dan Bricklin’s review, but it turns out that the Treo is only relatively affordable when purchased with an accompanying GPRS plan — which, though tempting, is well beyond my financial capacity to endure. (The only other alternative for “wireless internet” on the Treo is to have it dial in to your existing ISP — which is slow and costs minutes.) Considering that, plus the lack of any bundled IM software (for the moblog!), and the lack of an SD expansion slot, the Treo doesn’t seem right for me just yet.
Martin wowed me at his wedding with beautiful hi-res color photos on his Clié. That would be nice for my photography, if only the Clié had a slot for SD cards rather than just the proprietary Sony Memory Sticks. That, plus the prohibitive price, made the Clié a non-viable option.
The Treo 90 was looking good for a bit, with its small size, SD card slot, and color screen, but the $299 price tag gave me pause, even with a free DVD player thrown in. Not worth it to me.
Dell Axim X5? Uh, no.
As far as I can tell, the lower-end Palm m130 is the only decent compromise for me on price and features. It’s not tiny, and it’s not a PDA-phone, but it does have an SD expansion slot, good color screen, and long battery life. Plus, it’s relatively new and well-supported, unlike my current IIIxe, which was already antiquated when I got it.
All things considered, it looks like the m130 is gonna be it, unless some extra cash falls out of the sky. Maybe I can go for a better, cheaper PDA-phone sometime next year, after Palm buys Handspring and telcos let me keep my number.
Any other recommendations? Most important to me is either or both of these feature combinations: (1) GSM PDA-phone with instant messaging and SMS, or (2) color-screen with SD card slot. MP3 would be nice, too, but not required. Oh, and all for below $200. With free flying pigs.
(Hey, the US has considered it before.)
More from IMAO. You’ll like him, Jason. Just read his biases.
Darn it. I forgot to get sauerkraut at the grocery. It was sitting right there in plain sight, too.
Heresy Hunters, take note that the Ang Dating Daan cult’s official church name has changed from “Iglesia ng Dios Kay Kristo Jesus, Haligi at Saligan ng Katotohanan” to “The Church of YHWH and YHWSA HMSYH.” It seems that Eli Soriano has jumped onto the Sacred Names bandwagon in an effort to lend his belief system further theological validity by sheer virtue of nomenclature.
(Insert smirking reference to gnats and camels here.)
“Aside from looking cute and serving as Captain Archer’s sounding board, Porthos is noted for making First Contact with the leg of Vulcan science officer T’Pol.” – A Tribute to Porthos the Beagle.
“Choose Life” plates unconstitutional, because they provide an “unfair forum” for abortion foes. Well, if you want to have a fair forum for all sides, let’s have “Kill the Fetuses” license plates too. That should make everyone happy.
Dean Allen’s “Textile” is a textarea field which lets you just write, without having to worry about the nitty-gritty of proper markup and valid character entities. I especially like the last useful feature in the list of functions. Ha.
Is that Susy? As in, Susy of the Susy and Geno duo? Wow, way to go undercover. I can see what the PNP must have been thinking: “We’ll make our police officers less conspicuous to terrorists by dressing them up as Sustagen mascots.”
(Pic via Ernie.)
I had a headache, and Tylenol wasn’t working, but then I drank coffee, and now the headache’s gone.
That’s not good.