Archive for May, 2006



Palm Z22

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 at 10:02 am

Palm Z22
Okay, I love my new Palm Z22 PDA. I’d almost given up on carrying a PDA altogether after carrying around the brick-sized HP Jornada for several years. About five or six years ago Traci bought a PDA to replace her two planners. She had a planner for school and a planner for personal stuff. She bought the HP Jornada for $600 (yes, I know it was expensive) and it worked great for her. I wasn’t sure I’d actually use a PDA so I bought a very inexpensive Palm m100 (for around $150) when she bought hers. I eventually discovered that I did use the PDA extensively and eventually replaced the Palm m100 with a Jornada like Traci’s (for about $250).

The Jornada had a bunch of bells and whistles but after a few years I realized I never really used anything but the basic organizer features. It was a heavy, bulky, expensive pain in the ass. Not to mention ActiveSync was a real piece of crap, constantly duplicating events (especially birthdays).

So a few weeks ago …read more »


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Problem Solved?

Monday, May 1st, 2006 at 8:57 am

I think I might have solved the problem with my server. I was using tar to backup the site and the tarball had swollen to 6 gigabytes in size. Apparently tar can only support tarballs up to 4 gig so I think it was puking segmentation faults all over the place and brought both my original server and my backup server down.

I’ve restored the old server manually (opting out of using tar) and …read more »


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