Time For The Drum Solo!

I went home for the weekend yesterday, and decided to take a trip out to Future Shop last night.  While I was at the mall, I discovered a few interesting things: First, Charlie Daniels of Devil Went Down to Georgia fame was a member of Leonard Cohen's backing band in the late 60s/early 70s.  Secondly, Palm software can now be had extremely cheaply (Future Shop had all of theirs on for 50% off whatever it had already been reduced to).  Thirdly, and finally, I can tell too much about a handheld based on the CPU alone.

Furthering the final point, while at Future Shop I saw my first Linux based handheld.  Unfortunately the battery was dead, so I couldn't try out its recognition or see if it used a widget set based off of QT or GTK, however it did have the memory and CPU information posted next to it, and from the fact it used a Motorola DragonBall EZ (68EZ328 for those who like numbers) I could tell that it was a monochrome screen and likely ran some varient of ucLinux.  (You need a DragonBall VZ to support colour screens, and none of the DragonBall series has a MMU)  Price wise, the thing was twenty dollars less than a Zire 21, and contained 4 times the available memory for programs.  So, same CPU, more memory, and cheaper, that means the only thing the Zire 21 has going for it is a wider range of applications. (And, seeing as I know nothing of the state of Linux PDA applications, even that is debatable.)

On a final note, I picked up a copy of Futurama Season 3, which contains many episodes originally broadcast as season 4, including the classic becoming-your-own-grandfather episode, Roswell That Ends Well.

Today's title is worth one point.