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adrian_turtleJust in case you were wondering, after Saturday's post:
1) Palm Pilots do eventually dry out
2) They have a reset button in the middle of the back. A person can push it with a bit of wire to force a reboot.
3) The problem with the laptop-PDA connection required rebooting *both* devices. This was the kind of hard-reboot of the laptop that removes my preferred "turn everything off" screen saver and goes back to the default screen saver with noises and moving pictures which I hateHateHATE. I need to remember to close the cover every time I reboot, in case it does that.
4) I had one plastic grocery bag in my backpack, which I put over my paperbacks and magazines, in case water leaked in from the zipper at the top. Water seeped in from underneath, through the cloth back of the pack. The magazines (trade journals, really) are pretty much a loss. I finished _The Copper Peacock_, in the bathtub, and concluded it was so far from Rendell's best that I wouldn't be reading it again. After all, when I want to reread Rendell short stories, I can do a lot better. So I gave it away less than a week after acquiring it -- I never thought I'd do that with Rendell, but there you have it.
1) Palm Pilots do eventually dry out
2) They have a reset button in the middle of the back. A person can push it with a bit of wire to force a reboot.
3) The problem with the laptop-PDA connection required rebooting *both* devices. This was the kind of hard-reboot of the laptop that removes my preferred "turn everything off" screen saver and goes back to the default screen saver with noises and moving pictures which I hateHateHATE. I need to remember to close the cover every time I reboot, in case it does that.
4) I had one plastic grocery bag in my backpack, which I put over my paperbacks and magazines, in case water leaked in from the zipper at the top. Water seeped in from underneath, through the cloth back of the pack. The magazines (trade journals, really) are pretty much a loss. I finished _The Copper Peacock_, in the bathtub, and concluded it was so far from Rendell's best that I wouldn't be reading it again. After all, when I want to reread Rendell short stories, I can do a lot better. So I gave it away less than a week after acquiring it -- I never thought I'd do that with Rendell, but there you have it.
