Scott Hanselman

I thought I was looking at a glitch in reality or something when I saw this picture. For the last couple of months I had this (un-edited) picture of Flava Flav as my windows desktop and only recently changed it to something else. I thought it had magically "come back" somehow. I mean...I'm browsing Scott Hanselman's programming weblog and there it is ...who would have thought.

For many, many years I wore an OnHand PC watch (aka Ruputer). I loved the fact that it came with gcc so you could write your own apps for it. I ignored the snide comments about how large my watch was, the questions about what it did, if it got TV. I wrote apps for it. But you know what? A PDA the size of a watch is never going to be as good as a Pocket PC. It doesn't have the memory, the extensibility, the audio, the speed, the display size, and especially the ease of input. After a while, I started to ask myself why I had a computer on my wrist when my Pocket PC was always with me (which it is). I can understand cellphones that are PDAs, but the watch seems too small to be valuable. You need something with a display at least the size of a credit card, methinks. I'd rather have a watch that gives meteorological readings, or maybe an arrow pointing which way to turn next based on GPS readings. But that's just me.