Writ of Mainprize

I’m posting this from my new Axim, using my Pocket SharpMT. I guess that makes it mobblogging. Creating entries seems pretty easy. I wonder if this will be a practical way of doing this?

I finally got my Axim x50 from Dell. After a little mix up with the billing address, the order process was pretty smooth sailing (although there was absolutely no feedback at the Dell website). My first impressions are: LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! It’s certainly a great leap forward from my old Palm IIIc, which I’ve used religiously until a few days ago.
I won’t go into a lot of technical details here, but rather I will attempt to describe a few key points regarding setup …

These days you need a password for just about everything. And for security each password should be different and hard to guess. This means that keeping track of website username password combinations is extremely difficult. One possibility is to use a substitution cipher that makes a simple easy to remember password, like “bank” and turn it into one that looks “hardened”. Nizo posted this some time ago at Slashdot for the entry Too Many Passwords
Two minor drawbacks: 1) Never lose the original cipher. 2) If …

O.k. Someone was killed just down the street (2 blocks away). Some of the details can be found at pulse24.com and at 640toronto.com. Obviously a domestic dispute. It’s really too bad, my neighbourhood seems nice (at least on the surface). There’s no obvious sign of gang activity, kids play outside, neighbours say hello. For the most part this is a pretty sleepy neighbourhood… And the house looked so nice too—the fence is a little much, but it’s a well kept house with a manicured …

My brother and I have been saying we should go camping together for a few years now, but schedules have been next to impossible to sync up. Anyways, we finally managed to organize a single night this past weekend. The four of us scooted up to Earl Rowe Provincial Park last Friday.
Despite the rain on Friday evening, we managed to set up a decent campsite with a nice little fire. The campfire Cake-in-an-Orange was a bit of a disaster, but the “Chinese BBQ” on the following day was …