Busblog

This is really just an exercise in geekery but I couldn't resist it. I've just been to drop off my car at the garage and I'm currently on the bus back to Chapeltown from the center of Sheffield. I'm writing this on my visor palmtop and making respectable progress with the grafiti handwriting software. I usually just use it for reading documents and playing solitaire on the loo but I've got half an hour to kill, so what the heck.

I do miss the keyboard on my old psion revo though - I'd still be using it if it had a usb cable connector and reliable sync software. The palmtop before that was my favorite - the HP200LX was a genuine PC that would run just about any bit of dos software that didn't need more than CGA graphics and would just fit in your pocket. The built in apps ran from the rom and as well as the usual pda stuff there was a full implementation of Lotus 123 - arguably the best pre windows spreadsheet. It also had an infrared port and a pcmia slot for a modem, and would run for weeks on a set of AA batteries. Mine must have been getting on for being nine or ten years old when it conked. *sniff*

Surely there must be a market for a handheld pc, with wi-fi connectivity, decent battery life and a usable keyboard? I'd buy one for a start.

Nearly home now. I'm not actually going to try and send this via infrared and my phone so I'll just sync it to my laptop. Here we go ...