[HitmanLV]

I love gadgets and the Palm is quite cool, though I tend to use it as an organizer for addresses and phone numbers, and not for my personal schedule. It does remind me two weeks before, and the day of, birthdays and anniversaries, etc, which is worth the price of admission alone!

Units like this are getting very integrated with other items, so I have my old Sony Clie and a 1.5 year old nice cell phone, but looking forward to an integrated solution (phone, mp3 player, personal organizer, etc).

While I love gadgets, I'm also a Luddite in some ways. I see no practical upside (given my work demands and values) in being able to get emails from people I know (work or personal) immediately as opposed to a few hours from now. My cell phone is there for me to call people, not for people to call me, and there's not a lick of difference if I take a call now, or take a message a couple of hours later.

Nobody is that important to me. And I don't like to be that easy to get a hold of. Familiarity breeds something, I understand...

[cloud8]

> While I love gadgets, I'm also a Luddite in some ways.

LOL Me too. I'm a minimalist Luddite--cheap *and* stubborn.

[Clinging Bitterly]

I'm also a Luddite in some ways...

You and me both. We're vacationing this weekend, it's our anniversary. We don't even own a cell phone (I have one for work that I only use when I'm on call. This morning I'm sitting in our room at the Shilo Inn at Bend, and all weekend the phone lines at this end of town have been out, so only way to get us would have been to send a messenger. But on the other hand, the motel's high speed internet connection has been out until this morning (and for some reason, I do like to have that available).