08-19-2004, 09:00 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 3,060
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My Work Is Finished!
I have been SOOOO busy getting ready to send my oldest son off to college, doing things like making sure his notebook PC is configured correctly and keeps its antivirus definitions up to date. He's the least nerdy in the family, so I've had to make sure that his computer is protected without requiring much intervention. Just this afternoon, though, my un-nerdy son came to me with those words that every parent in my situation longs to hear:
"Dad, can I have a Pocket PC to take with me to college?"
BWAAAHAAAAAAAA!! FINALLY! The last holdout in my family has given into me and come to the dark side! Two of my kids had recently become Pocket PC converts, so now, my family consists of:
� Me, and my years-long fascination with Pocket PCs
� My wife, who uses my old Casio EM500 for nothing but mahjong and Solitaire
� My daughter, who has become a whiz at IM-ing her friends with a Pocket PC and folding keyboard
� My second son, who loves to use a Pocket PC to write reports and to use our WiFi network to surf the 'Net.
� And NOW, my oldest son, who will be taking a brand new iPAQ completely loaded with every application I think he might possibly want(Thank heaven for 512MB SD cards)!
What more could "the geekiest geek to ever geek his way into Geektown" want?
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08-19-2004, 09:02 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 735
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You win!
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08-19-2004, 09:26 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 330
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You possibly are the most PDA'd family I know of. 8) I'm sure you had a tear in your eye when I asked for a pocketpc.
If he's got a notebook did you get him a syn 'n charge cable always handy and very portable, just a thought.
If he's taking a stack of music with him as well he might need extra storage.
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08-19-2004, 09:43 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 146
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Way to go Brad...your work is done!
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08-19-2004, 09:45 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 76
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Re: How important is a Pocket PC
Actually, I think a pocket pc is very useful to our daily lives especially the inbuilt PIM program that is inside.
Also, it is just like a pc, you can do work processing, surf the net, install useful applicatons just like our desktop pc.
The best of all, it's so small, thin and so light that carrying around is so easy.
Therefore, I think it's great that your all your family members have a pocket pc each.
Your family will be a "High-Tech" family!!!
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08-19-2004, 10:18 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 276
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:rotfl:
"Brad, agent 1337, mission accomplished. The agency wishes to send their compliments for you well-done work with a pre-paid vacation at Hawaii." :lol:
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08-19-2004, 10:59 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 6
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'grats, Brad!
I still cannot coerse or talk my wife into charging her Treo from USB since she has lost it's ac/dc adaptor. :twisted:
So she walks around home phoneless and PDAless. What a shame!  ops:
And, to make things worse, I had to sell my beefed-up X5 to get some most needed money so now I stuck with B/W PalmOS SL10 - feebly hoping to lay may hands on one of those *tasty* VGA gizmos when they'll beging losing their hunger for my money in... How much time will it take?...Half a-year, no less, it seems! :|
Hope you get your sooner than me 
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08-19-2004, 11:30 AM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 10,981
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That's great news! Congrats. My daughter (2 years old) keeps asking to use my Pocket PC. Hopefuly it won't be long and she can have her own. :mrgreen:
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08-19-2004, 12:06 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 176
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What more could "the geekiest geek to ever geek his way into Geektown" want?
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If you were a proper geek family you'd all be running your own custom Linux kernel's on Sharp Zaurus(s)!!! :mrgreen:
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08-19-2004, 12:17 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 430
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Way to go. My youngest is still a bit little, but my wife and my two oldest girls (5 & 6.5) are all using them.
Aint it grand!
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