Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

One pet peeve that has resulted from upgrading to Thunderbird 2.0, is that I can no longer right click on an account in the Folder Pane and fetch just the mail for that account. I have many, many accounts, and some are not set to fetch mail ever, unle… more »

The Palm PDA to Blackberry migration continues..... My Tungsten T is hardly being used anymore....it had been falling the wayside gradually, ever since I got a Blackberry (2.5 years ago). I've been thinking of upgrading, but they don't seem to offer… more »

Well, I did it again....I bought another piece of software that is kind of work related. At least I own the hardware that the software is going on, this time ;D I work at Kansas State University, where we use Oracle Calendar for scheduling... And, I… more »

Well, I didn't want to wake up this morning...I was sore, my throat hurt, there was a productive cough, and it is kind of gloomy out. But, I wanted to check clocks at home and at work to see what changed and didn't change. The first computer that sho… more »

Occurred to me that I should see if there's a DST impact on my Palm Tungsten.... Turns out a simple enough change in general preferences on adjusting how DST is observed at my location. It was a little more complicated for Datebk5, but a quick chec… more »

I think I have my Blackberry 8703e working again after it got all messed up from trying the "Switch Device Wizard" of the 4.2 Desktop Manager. The wizard sucks all the information off of my old Blackberry fine...but it doesn't wisely figure out what s… more »

It is time to retire this wretched pen. >:-[ I almost never use it as a stylus, and the ink pens skips terribly....and, it isn't all the pratical when I need a pencil. Not sure what I want....pretty much I just need a write anywhere pen that fits m… more »

Further late night investigation seems to indicate that a version of the 8700 will be available in CDMA soon. 8702? So, should I wait for this? How long can I endure without a local phone number? Or how long can I endure without a blackberry? Th… more »

...which also seems to be death to GSM, and death to Blackberry. :..( Because I moved to Manhattan, Kansas...I wanted a local number. Though the silly customer support doesn't seem to understand this kind of request. At first they wanted to issue me… more »

Yesterday I bought one of these from Best Buy. I had been on the fence for getting one for a while, since floppy drives are starting to get scare and CDs aren't practical. And, there'll be times where using the Internet be an option, either. But, it… more »

For reasons that suddenly escape me....I upgraded to Outlook 2003, today. I was previously running Outlook 2000 as part of the Office 2000 Suite. In my current situation, I couldn't justify the cost to upgrade to Office 2003 at the moment....especial… more »

Darn...looks like Palm finally did it. For the longest time (ever), I've been making use of just a Palm Tungsten T. Because there hasn't been a compeling enough reason to leap to other models. Namely, the lack of compeling new features to satisfy… more »