Rodent Regatta

The cover of my Treo 300 broke off tonight. I’ve been lucky. In two years of heavy use, I had avoided this common problem. It’s particularly frustrating because there is apparently no repair procedure for it – warranty or otherwise.

In today’s technology life cycle, it’s unlikely an economical repair service could be offered. Now, the question facing me tomorrow:

• Do I buy another Treo 300 since they appear to be really inexpensive now?
• Do I move up to the Treo 600?
• Do I go back to a separate cell phone and PDA?
• Do I change from Sprint to another service?
• If I get a separate PDA, do I stick with palmOne or move to PocketPC?
• Is something right around the corner that I should wait for?

I’m off to Engadget and Gizmodo for answers… H E L P! Thanks in advance!!

For those looking for GMAIL accounts, I’ve got a couple of unused invitations. Dane Carlson sent me an invitation. I signed up. I share the notions you’ll read at *Asterisk.

On this day last year I was curious about ”the cable clock” and some other toys. Still rather intriguing stuff.

No sooner had I made the request than a loyal reader and helper came through with a GMAIL invitation. In January of 2002 I was struggling to learn Radio, weblogs, sidebars, blogrolls and things even more fundamental to the web. There were a lot of new users of Radio at that time. Dane Carlson ”adopted me” during the height of that explosion in user counts at the urging of the experienced users. Adopted meant getting help and a ready source of answers.

Dane and I have stayed in touch and he continues to offer some great help along the way. If you haven’t read his weblog or the Business Opportunities site, which he also writes, you should add them to your regular reads. Thanks also to Steven Vore for the pointer.

I want a GMAIL account. If any readers here have unused invitations…well, I’d be grateful.