General

Well said.  Dwight D. Eisenhower. “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

Yay!  iPaq H3800 ROM updates coming in June [PDABuzz.com]

Oops.  http://www.msnbc.com/news/745303.asp

I buy mine on ebay.  VA Linux (now California Digital) preferably.  US server sales show green shoots of recovery. Rest of world is barren [The Register]

Wild.  I’m a gadget guy, but even I’ll confess that I have a hard time keeping up with how to use all of the machines and such in my life!  Katie Hafner really nails it in the NY Times today
She takes us through several cases where relatively simple devices that were once controlled by twisting a knob or pushing a button are now endowed with digital commands that can take hours to master.
This is exactly the problem I had when I went back to the future in Dubai. The hi-tech interior to the hotel and rooms was just that, hi-tech but unusable. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

I would not want to be an Iraqi Soldier anytime in the near future…  Newspaper: U.S. plans Iraq attack in 2003 [CNN]

Early morning tea…  sitting on the porch, little toast, Radio Userland, and David McCullough’s Truman.  What more could one want?