I’m thinking about taking another shot at replacing my old Palm 700p cellphone and am looking for something that is at least as good as what I bought 5 years ago. As many of you know, I tried the HTC Touch Pro2 and ended up returning it because it was so dysfunctional. I went to a Verizon store and was somewhat impressed. The thing actually seems to work. I didn’t see any kind of stylus with it which may be a good thing. Perhaps you don’t need one.

So – should I buy this phone or is there yet a better one about to come out? Should I wait for the Droid 2?

The brave and the foolish. My 5 year old XP laptop is dying today so I went to Fry’s to get a new laptop. I was thinking that the Vista laptops would be heavily discounted but the Windows 7 computers were both newer and cheaper. Generally I don’t buy a Microsoft OS until at least service pack 1. But I’m taking a chance here so let’s see how it works. I’m using my Acer netbook to write this and going to do the install live and blog about it while it happens. So if it works then that’s what I’ll write. If it doesn’t then it gets slammed. So refresh this article today (Oct 24) because this is a live review.

He was gone 3 days. Last evening he showed up and he was hungry. Today we had the big rain storm and he was staying in his new tree most of the day but he heard me talking outside and he came up to me in the rain. I took him and his squirrel hive I made him inside and he has a warm dry place to spend the night.

Well, I think he grew up and left. He has technically been free for quite a while, but in the last two weeks he quit coming back to his home that I built for him. He was coming back to eat and he liked to get attention, but as of October 10th he stopped showing up. He did seem to develop survival skills and he was wandering farther away. He was making noises that sounded like mating calls but he’s only 4 months old and a little young for that. He might yet show up again some day but I think he’s out there on his own. (As opposed to being cat food.) I’m calling it mission accomplished.

I read somewhere that the average American child will generate 9441 metric tons of carbon dioxide in their lifetime. At $50/metric ton that’s $472,050 in carbon. So if I go to the local high school and pass out 100 condoms and birth control pamphlets, or pay for a poor teenage girl to get an abortion, haven’t I earned the right to get a few plastic bags at the grocery store when I go shopping?

My 2 cents. What do you think?

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This is my third article in the series from purchasing the phone to evaluating it. I have finally concluded that the phone is unusable and I’m returning it. Basically nothing on this phone works right and I am really disappointed.

I’ve been fooling with this new HTC Touch Pro2 all day and I almost sent it back. The phone itself is good but Windows Mobile totally sucks. I had been using a Palm 700p running PalmOS and when I originally got it for the most part it just worked. With Windows mobile almost nothing worked at first.

The user interface is poorly designed to the point of being unusable. If not for it having a keyboard and arrow keys it wouldn’t work. It can’t be used with just the finger and requires the stylus for about everything. It lacks scroll bars in critical places and you have to flick the screen to scroll. If you don’t flick it just right, you either select the wrong thing or you flip past what you want.

This is going to be a two part article because the phone is (hopefully) arriving later today. So this is about what I’m expecting and when it arrives we’ll see if it meets expectations.

I bought a laptop for a friend that has Vista on it. I’m used to XP and am trying to migrate her XP setup to the new Vista computer. I went through the install and it created an administrator account for her. But I went into her “Applications Data” folder and I’m getting “Access is Denied”.

I guess being an Administrator doesn’t even get you into your own folders.

Think about it. Science can measure the afterglow of the Big Bang. We can determine details about subatomic particles. Yet with all our scientific methods we can find no evidence that God exists. Something as huge as God should be easily detectable. After all, he created everything and is answering prayers and doing miracles which should be something science could easily find.

So that means either he doesn’t exist – or he’s using his super powers to cover his tracks to hide from science so that science can’t detect him. And if he is all powerful he could do that. But, what does that mean if God is hiding? It means that God doesn’t want to be found. It means that God doesn’t want you to believe in God.

So what do we call someone who doesn’t want people to believe in God? We call them Atheists. Therefore – if God exists – God is an Atheist.

What do you think?

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I built a new squirrel house for my pet squirrel Ganesha. I was at Lowes and bought 2 hanging flower baskets, mounted the top one upside down and wired it to the bottom one. Inside is lined with paper towels and a towel. I cut a hole in the top so he can crawl in and out. He’s big enough to jump to the tree and back.

Squirrels normally live in hollowed out trees. This is a hollowed out tree simulator. It was also cheap and easy to build.