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I love the concept of tablet PCs..  Can’t wait to land (I’m on a plane as I write this) and check out what NEC is cooking up.

I really think we’re a few years away from a tablet PC that actually does what we’re going to want it to do.. right now, I get what I want out of my compaq Ipaq, but it’s not truly wireless, and I can’t type on it without dragging along the keyboard.  But it is pretty slick 🙂

I’m a patient man…

Welcome Mac fans! Some rumor sites have pointed to me this morning and boy, what flow!

Hey, Mac fans, drool over the new NEC Tablet, introduced this morning:

PCWorld: “NEC Shows off 2-Pound Tablet PC.”

TabletPCTalk: “NEC Versa LitePad Exclusive Coverage.”

TabletPCTalk is tracking other stuff about the NEC on its home page.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

Hi Erin 🙂

1,116 miles from Boston.

If I did this right, Simon should get a ping back on this…

Pingback. Cool, looks like ASP.NET WebLogs are going to get pingback and trackback support soon. [Simon Fell]

I wallpapered the office today….

I woke up with a need to find new wallpaper, and with 2 monitors at home and 2 at work, my work was cut out for me.  Here’s some links to rockin’ sweet new wallpapers from my friend at Panic, Steven Frank.

http://www.prevision.dk/photo.html
http://mandolux.com/
http://www.veer.com/ideas/wallpaper/
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/desktops.html

The new wallpaper (seen at right) I’m using is here.

(Cultural note: If she’s meant to represent a woman of Islamic faith, it’s possibly not accurate since: 1. Her green eyes are probably contacts.  2. Most devout Mulsim women who wear burkas avoid eye makeup. 3. The text is in an english font that harkens to the Devanagari scripts, which are Northern Indian and Indo-Aryan, not Hamito-Semitic like Arabic.)

[Scott Hanselman’s Weblog]

Bob Frankston on Boston Driving.

If you donât drive in Boston you arenât really here, youâre just visiting. Boston driving is like the Internet ö you have to take responsibility for your own survival and not rely on the benevolence of those between points A and B. Why do you think the end-to-end principle was developed here! Of course, now that I-90 goes to Logan even a visitor can find it. They gave both direction of the Ted Williams Tunnel the same name! It was so much fun to see people looking for the Sumner Tunnel which they took from the airport since you have to take the Callahan to get back. Ever since they changed the rules to give priority to cars leaving the traffic circle weâve lost the edge. And requiring all cars to stop at stop signs ö what a waste. It wasnât that way when I took my driving test (really ö 2nd and 3rd cars didnât have to stop).

Just get a car, close your eyes and enjoy the experience. Just remember that green means proceed with caution, yellow means accelerate and red means look both ways for cops.

[Scripting News]

The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’. The Best Quotes From Margaret Thatcher’s ‘Statecraft’: There have only been two European leaders in the last century that I… [Right Wing News]

Disk Memory Below a Buck a Gigabye, and What That Portends. Now that disk capacity costs less than a dollar per gigabyte, it’s again time to look at the most disruptive… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]