The Geekette Speaketh

It's been raining hard lately. Power has been cutting out on us and a freak tornado in one of the nearby cities made things worse. So I decided to pull up this post from my old blog. Every now and then I'll be putting up some old (yet timely) posts from the former TGS website. Thanks to the Wayback Machine for giving me a way to dredge them all up again.

Today's blast from the past sets its eyes on Palm. Thoughts on the imminent death of Palm OS were looming about some three years ago. This month, Palm put forth on the US shelves their newest baby sporting the WebOS. I wonder now how the early adopters are liking the new operating system on the brand new Palm Pre.

"While out on the beach there are two empty chairs
That say more than the people who ever sit there
From under my lone palm I can look out on the day"
- "Lone Palm" by Jimmy Buffett

A few days ago I realized that if I want to stay true to my resolutions at all, I need to be reminded about it. And what better way to do it than with my Palm Zire72. The Palm Zire72 has been with me for almost five years now. It was my replacement for an aging Palm IIIe. I never thought I'd be bringing out my Zire72 again. I haven't used this in over a year or two. Yet here it is. Back in action. Ironically, two days later I find out that Palm is now closing down almost all of its retail stores.