The Psion-Teklogix wallet-eater

August 9, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Borrowed this little gem from work. It’s a pretty fly little internet appliance, and tiny as you can get without looking like a PDA. The Netbook runs WinCE.net, and has precious few applications, but is very good on batteries, and has a touch screen. One thing I didn’t like about it was how heavy it was, and the whopping $3K CAN price tag.

It’s much smaller than this Toshiba, and much more expensive. No hard drive means no storage, and WinCE effectively cripples it from all but the most basic (not BASIC) applications. The one nice thing about the embedded OS is that it’s instantly on when you open it, and instantly off when you close. The small form factor makes it ideal to have a travelling internet kiosk in your house. But at 3000? Jebus Cripes! I could buy 3 cheap laptops and have them scattered throughout the place. And then, I’d have a primo setup for network gaming nights.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.