Not too much interesting today. Usual around the house stuff. Also the usual reading and catching up on stuff. Garden State arrived so I watched that. It was a pretty decent movie. Very well done technically, especially on the music selection and timing. The plot seemed bland though. The first half or so wasn't so bad, but I think the last half was rather boring. It does remind me of a certain other movie it's often compared to, but I think it's better. It certainly gets the plot across without resorting to crazy stuff to do it. I do think it's probably one that people who relate to it like a lot more. I finished that up just in time to send it back in the mail today. Also decided to pay some bills. Xcel apparently managed to not note my payment that they deposited so still want it from me. I'll have to try to figure out if they've figured it out in their system since they printed the statement or if I need to bug them about it. Stuff like that is why automated payments are a bad idea for a lot of things (like anything that can change amounts). After doing more stuff around the house I watched The Client. Good movie, and it even has Homer Simpson in it. It may be slightly far fetched, but was well made.

I'm still debating the ogo. I'm pretty sure it's going back, but I could keep the hardware for $20 if I did it right. I'm pretty sure it's locked up with their servers though, so probably not worth it. I'm sorta looking at other things now. My palm seems to be constantly complaining about low battery, and I guess I can't be too surprised since 3 year old lithium ion batteries from that era don't tend to be very good anymore. I'm sorta considering combining the two and upgrading. I really like PalmOS, but the wifi capable palms are kinda pricey. I'm looking at the PocketPC ones, but even though I'm OK with Windows 2003 on servers for managing Windows machines, I can't stand it as a desktop OS. They could run Linux though, and PalmSource said they're making a PalmOS to overlay on a Linux base... Maybe I'll have to see if I can try linux on one of the iPAQs I have in my office (Erik's post got me thinking about that one). That and see if I can get my hands on a Tungsten C for a week or two to try. Anyone have any good suggestion of hardware on either side? I'm basically looking for decent battery life, wifi, and a decent screen. On the software side a browser, text/open ebook/pdf viewer, contacts, maybe calendar, and a decent password manager. The hardware side is sorta required, on the software if it supports me writing stuff I'd say lacking pretty much anything is fair game.

In other news a bunch of linguists got together (again) and now want to get rid of the word "blog". Although I don't know how much linguists who say they are "uber-serious" should be trusted...