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Martin Fowler shares some of his experiences of synchronizing several computers. Interesting timing, as I have just ordered a new laptop myself (although I admittedly don’t program a whole lot in my virtually non-existent spare time these days, thanks to my two daughters who tend to keep my busy… ;) ). On the PC side, things are pretty manageable with source control and IMAP, but on the PDA side things are still way too complicated My PocketPC, which I really like otherwise, even gets confused when syncing with just two machines (home and work)… Martin also mentions that News Aggregators have problems keeping track of which articles have already been read....

Nokia just announced that they have started shipping the impressive Nokia 7610 Series 60 camera phone. The price tag of somewhere over $600 seems a little hefty, but with service provider discounts this will probably be available for a lot less. The feature list certainly sounds awesome: 1 Megapixel camera, MIDP 2.0, 8MB internal memory plus 64MB MMC, tri-band, bluetooth, infrared, and USB connectivity, etc. I would certainly love to have one of these to play with MIDP programming, although I’ve been pretty happy with my Nokia 3650 for this purpose....

It looks like I almost missed the blog train, but at least I was still able to jump on at the last second. It looks like pretty much everyone else already has a blog. Even Microsoft’s Bill Gates recently acknowledged the importance of blogs. Oh well, once you’re done reading the other thousands of blogs out there, maybe you’ll get a chance to check out mine. ;)

Hello, and congratulations on finding my blog. It is somewhat surprising that it has taken me this long to join the blogging community, given that I have been using the Internet since the early to mid-nineties, when virtually nobody had Internet access at home and students like myself were just starting to browse the web in college. We were using the bland Mosaic browser at the time, and I remember when the much more modern-looking Netscape browser came out....