ive been ignoring the ol' blog lately. Ever since the camping trip a couple weeks ago, things with K have been rocky. Yesterday I spent half the day rearranging my room.

over the weekend i saw one really amazing parent/kid interaction, and one really terrible parent/kid interaction. i suppose in a big sprawling life-sucking suburb like gateway there are a lot of parents with children.

anyhow im posting because i feel a corner is turning in the PDA/cellphone market. 18 months ago the question in my mind was which type of pda/phone product would suceed. Would cell phones with PDA like functions be what people would buy? Or would PDAs with cell phone like capabilites win out? I believe the phones have won that battle and will continue to win. In general the phone is much more important than PDA functions. Ive learned this from my sidekick, which is the coolest data device ever but a shitty cell phone. I started to dream about the new Ericsson T610 - I played with one at a tmobile store. Given the cost of cell phones and cell service, and the explosive growth of 802.11 based infrastructure, VoIP becomes more interesting. If I could use a Palm device as a VoIP phone it'd have to: work with personal telco access points, have its voip app "always on" with out me having to think much about it even when im running other palm apps. then id have to have at least some percentage of my friends be reachable via voip.

actually a lot of my friends are in front of PCs. Plenty of computer hardware and connectivity there. Why arent we using VoIP applications right now? The instant messenger is whats taking the place of the phone. Maybe because most PCs have speakers but not microphones. They do have mic inputs so its easy enough to plug one in. Okay so say the hardware is in place - what apps would we use? What open standards are there?