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Apple’s Give Page shows links to organizations which are helping those affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Give if you can. Pray. Weep. Hug the ones you love, life is precious and fragile. - Matt

Merry Christmas From Matt, Karen, Chris & Jennie

Check this monument to excess capital!

Samsung is building this thing in Dubai for the locals.

One Half a Mile High.

Imagine the elevator ride and the view from the top.

Imagine swaying in the wind.

Hard to imagine.

Looks a bit like the Frank Lloyd Wright Mile High Building intended for Chicago which was never built.

This letter to the Linux community from the vice-president of engineering for Palmsource took me entirely by surprise.

I can read the tealeaves here and imagine countless innovating ways that Linux developers could put the best of Linux and the best of the Palm OS together which would lead to extremely stable and endlessly variable intellegent devices.

Translated: This could mean my Palm applications could run on almost any computer; desktop, laptop, cell-phone, watch (who needs one when the cell has the atomic-syncronized time?), television (don’t laugh - there’s a might big movement to converge PC and TV already happening), ad infinitum.

I love my Palm. I read all my books on it. It’s my preferred method of reading books. I syncronize my calendar, to-dos and contact list with my business computer. Lot’s of other uses.

The Treo 650 is my next Palm device. One device for Cell, organizer and for the most of my needs, a laptop replacement. See this article for a short list of the wonders one can do with a Treo device.

What’s not to like except the price ($600 without cell company subsidies)?

The point of this article that caught me by surprise is that “The average speed on Los Angeles freeways has dropped to 32 mph from 45 mph in 1984. By 2020, this is projected to drop to 24 mph.”

Woah! Big-time Woah!

I’m glad I live in a mid-sized Midwest city and not LA.

A lot of people “Love LA” but do they love the Urban Crawl?

I’ll take the cultural deprivation (What deprivation - I have a window on the World right here!) over the smog, population density and the commute.

Eek!