Archive for May 30th, 2007
The future of Treo
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007I am not optimistic when Palm comes out with this:
It’s…a laptop! But it’s not just a laptop, it’s a “smartphone companion.” So what Palm is basically saying is that either the Treo is already so good that there is no room for improvement (which I don’t buy) or that having a separate device to give the user full screen access to data on their Treo is what consumers want (which I don’t buy either). This thing costs $500 and you can’t install any 3rd party applications on it. All it does is communicate with your Treo. So why not just buy a $500 laptop running Windows to do what this thing does, plus a bunch more?
I used the T-Mobile MDA for a while and was not really satisfied at the performance. It was slow and the e-mail software had some problems. It sounds like these Windows Mobile devices have come a long way and my tech guru has pointed me to the newest T-Mobile device, the Wing.
Maybe it’s time to give up the Treo for good.
Fred Thompson
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Thompson’s formal announcement is planned for Nashville. Organizers say the red pickup truck that was a hallmark of Thompson’s first Senate race will begin showing up in Iowa and New Hampshire as an emblem of what they consider his folksy, populist appeal.
No, please no. Not another lazy bumpkin wannabe “common man” phony running for president. I don’t think I can take it.
Thursday Track Night
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Say it with me now:
NO RAIN!
NO RAIN!
NO RAIN!
NO RAIN!
NO RAIN!
It will only work if you all join in…
Al Qaeda’s Enabler
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Andrew Sullivan:
The president is right that al Qaeda remains a terrible threat to Americans. He is right to insist on this. But one core reason he is right is because he has been in the White House for the last six years. Al Qaeda surely never had a more helpful man in such a powerful place. After over six years of this presidency, Bin Laden is still at large. Five and a half years after Bin Laden’s religious tools murdered 3,000 innocents, this president still cannot find or capture or kill him. Five and a half years after that dreadful day, al Qaeda’s reach in the Middle East is more extensive than ever, centered in Iraq, where it was barely existent before the war. Over four years after invading Iraq, the security situation there is as grave as it has ever been. Tens of thousands of innocents have been added to the three thousand murdered on 9/11 - many of them unspeakably tortured and murdered by death squads or Islamist cells empowered by Bush’s jaw-dropping negligence. Over three thousand young Americans have died in order to give al Qaeda this victory and this new platform.
