Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Downlaoded Pippy and plopped it onto my wife's AlphaSmart Dana.  It worked. A wide screen edition may make it better as a programming teaching tool, and to get featuritus, a 2-column version w/ 3rd for output (w/ simple graphics!) would be a nice twist. For a couple more hundred bucks it looks like you could get a Psion Series 7. I don't know much about Pippy. I'll have to re-read David Mertz's tutorial article and Stephen Figgins' introduction. Given that the Pippy is lacking in floating point, I wonder if it would serve as a decent text processing trainer?  David Mertz recently got some great Slashdot press for his book Text Processing in Python.  The first round if installs didn't work. Not sure if I didn't install the associated library, or installed it onto the SD card. If someone is interested in more testing, please let me know. Final thought. Is Palm the Apple of the Handheld/PDA industry? I'm still working on figuring out how to share 1 calendar between 2 palms. (My Visor Platinum, Tam's Dana.)  Pointers appreciated. Update: Shared calendars via DualDate, Dana link fixed, Thanks for the link, Daily Python-URL. :-) 10:56:28 PM     Eric Sink continues his articles on marketing for geeks with a great 15 minute read of the marketing bell curve and book Crossing the Chasm.  Interesting stuff about the crossing from early adopters to laggards.  Question to the community: Where is Python? Python for x groups appreciated also. Other notes to self: Relative URL's for image links are a great way to keep aggregator traffic down. Although the repetitive text pull vs. few read image pulls might contradict this, along with dropping the important visuals aspect of your post.  Eric does a great job with using bullet points and lists, a point my college business teachers stressed. Now that I'm no longer back-burnering the terms "pragmatists" and "laggards", figure out where the two-phased-short-then-tall curve fits in my disjointed associations of memory. 10:22:09 PM

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