miscellaneous geekery

Palm Zire 72 + internal Bluetooth + Motorola DC600 Bluetooth adapter + Motorola C343 cellphone + Verizon ExpressNetwork + Pocket Tunes Deluxe + BassDrive MP3 stream + headphones == Walkman for the 21st Century.

Finally got my Zire 72 to talk to the Bluetooth adapter attached to my cell phone. End result, I can get high-speed data access from my Palm without a PC or 802.11b access point... which lets me use Pocket Tunes Deluxe to stream internet radio sites to my pocket, completely wirelessly. It's simply awesome.

I hate company-wide meetings... at least now, I can blog from the conference room. Heh.

Good news from the Associated Press... John Ashcroft is gone. Now, let's get cracking on a repeal of the Patriot Act.

Ashcroft and Evans resign from Bush Cabinet Tuesday, November 9, 2004 BY TERENCE HUNT ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush's Cabinet to leave as he headed from re-election into his second term. The resignations were announced by White House press secretary Scott McClellan, who said Bush had accepted the decisions of both secretaries. "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved," Ashcroft wrote in a five-page, handwritten letter to Bush.