Tuesday, June 17

6:36 AM

Sitting in the park & ride waiting for the bus. I haven’t ridden the bus in quite some time since my company allowed me to park for free in the corporate lot. I don’t like being at work without a car especially with Pauline being eight & 1/2 months pregnant so hopefully she won’t go into labor while I’m at work.

6:46 AM

On the bus now. Last night I discovered that a spreadsheet that my team and I spent an exhaustive two hours on yesterday appeared to not have saved to my hard drive. I can only pray that I was able to upload it to the network.

Going back to riding the bus means going back to reading more consistently. I’m starting Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode. It’s a rather thick tome; hopefully it’ll be good. It received high marks on goodreads.com.

7:35 AM

My spreadsheet is not on the network.  I’m now searching for any and all .tmp files on my hard-drive, but I don’t believe that auto-save is enabled for Excel by default.

The thing I don’t understand is I was editing this document locally and kept hitting save throughout the meeting.  At the end I uploaded to SharePoint and the only thing I can think of was that the empty version out on SharePoint over-wrote my local version.

Gah…

Weight Check

Weight: 197lbs
Net Change: –2lbs
BMI: 26.7 (overweight)

At last, RSS on my Pocket PC

10:54 AM

Finally I was able to install and configure AvantGo (no small feat) on my Axim and its working pretty well.  I still need to figure out how to get it to autosync when I connect.  Even though I have that setting set in my preferences, it seems I still have to go into AvantGo while cradled and click “Sync All”.

Only get 2000K for RSS content.  I can pay $19.95 a year to upgrade to 8MB but I don’t need it that badly.

Off to another meeting…

Friday, June 13

6:57 AM

Didn’t sleep well again last night. When my alarm went off I reset it for an hour later, but that didn’t help much. MJ got up way too early (he’s starting to come down with a cold) and decided 6:20 in the morning would be a great time to play drums in his room, thus waking up those still fortunate enough to be sleeping.

At least it will be hot and humid today.

Done With Physical Therapy

6:17 PM

Pauline & H just left for a walk. I had my last physical therapy session this afternoon. Now I just need to continue with my exercises & not lift or twist.

Get me out of here

2:14 PM

Sitting in a meeting right now. Attention span is being tested. I leave work in a half hour.

Blogging Software for Pocket PC?

Been searching the web to try & find blogging software for my PocketPC & have not had much luck. Ideally I want to be able to write a post offline & when I cradle my device have it automatically upload my post.

I tried a few out. Moblog looked the most promising but I kept getting errors trying to connect to wordpress, even after applying my proxy settings.

I also would like to find an RSS Reader that would sync when cradled but let me read offline. I haven’t had any luck with AvantGo, which I had used on my old pocket PC.

Blogging from Pocket PC

10:34 AM

My computer has been acting really slow the last couple of days and finally locked up on me. Right now I’m in the process of rebooting; I couldn’t even close the applications I had open.

I’m composing this on my Pocket PC. I’ve played around with the various input methods and have settled on "block entry" mode; I’ve gotten pretty fast at entering in text with it.

Theoretically when I cradle this (which is being written in Pocket Word) I should be able to dump this right into Live Writer.

If you’re reading this you’ll know it worked.

Thursday, June 12

Pretty tired this morning.  The last couple of days I’ve had more than my customary solo cup of coffee, which has gotten me wired and edgy, especially once the caffeine started to wear off today.  I’m going to try hard to stick with that one cup today.

Yesterday was quite hectic at work getting ready for and deploying an internal release of our product.  This was my first time doing this for this project (we rotate the responsibility around) and I only managed a couple of goofs.  It turns out we’re going to release again next week anyway, so this was good practice.

This afternoon is my last session of physical therapy.  The healing continues and I was able to go through my whole regimen of exercises this morning.

Wednesday, June 11

Starting out this morning’s listening with Louis Armstrong’s What a Wonderful World.  I’ve been in a really relaxed and good mood since yesterday evening. 

Yesterday I installed a bunch of applications on my Pocket PC.  I have a Dell Axim X30 which only has 32MB of onboard memory, so I purchased a 2GB SD card from Circuit City (only $14.99…great deal) which gives me a lot more room to put stuff.  I still need to watch my program memory as it tends to get eaten up.

On a related note, I logged onto Circuit City’s website from work on Monday to see if they had any of the SD cards in stock at my local store.  They did and I was about to go through with the “pay now, pick up in store” option when I noticed they were going to add $3.49 in “shipping and handling” charges to my order.  The rack where the cards are kept is about 15 feet from the service desk.  $3.49 to walk 15 feet, pick up a card and walk back.  I opted not to use the “pay now, pick up in store” option and just went to the store where they had a plethora of the cards on the shelf. 

Last night I gave my wife a break and took H and MJ to the gym and let them run around and get some energy out.  A girl accidentally slid into MJ and he cut his lip with his tooth, so he wasn’t too happy about that. 

Did some eBay listing last night; okay I listed one item and relaxed with Pauline.  In bed and asleep shortly after ten.

Today I have a pretty full schedule of meetings and presentations.  This is my first post using the new preview of Windows Live Writer.  So far I like it a lot.