Holland whup America's ass. Twice. Plus other weekend news.

We watched the swimming mens 4x100m relay finals last night and the big upset wasn't only that America didn't win, but that South Africa came first and Holland came second! Hup Holland! Then today, Australian Ian Thorpe came first, and the Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband came second. Once again, Michael Phelp's nose was out of joint as he came in third. Bronze. Twice in two days. Tee hee.

Also, I found out yesterday that the DJ playing the opening ceremony at the Olympics was DJ Tiesto. When we were watching it, I kept saying "they're playing an Armin Van Buuren or Paul Van Dyk mix!". Right country, wrong DJ. (All three are Dutch).

My Sony CLIE PDA is dead. The battery has expired in a big way. I've begrudgingly ordered a PocketPC PDA to replace it.
I spent the weekend scouring the reviews of Palm, Sony and other Palm-based PDAs and came to the conclusion that they all stink right now. Sony are pulling the Clie range from the US and European markets because they (wrongly) believe that everyone wants cellphones with all this stuff built in.
The Dell PocketPC offerings seem to be fraught with manufacturing and supply problems (according to the Dell forums). The HP iPaqs seem to have build and screen problems. The only one I could find that didn't have a majority of bad reviews was the Toshiba e400 / e405. All the others had bad reviews outranking good reviews by 2-to-1 on Amazon, epinions and c|net.
The only thing that really impressed me was the Windows2003mobile ability to read my handwriting in "digitiser" mode. Clearly something so useful that it wasn't actually written by Microsoft.
It's going to be a pain in the ass having to migrate all my palm data to PocketPC....

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