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Tuesday, 11:09 pm in Geeking

Godsdamnit I’ve been a bad bad landlady lately; it’s been days and I haven’t officially welcomed this week’s new renter, Evolution of Gina.  Gina has been a real keen bean, putting in renting apps dilligently almost evey week.  Patience pays off in this case, so everyone go and check her out.  Seriously, go; shoo, I’ll still be here when you get back.

… see?

They’ve given me a new toy to play with at work.  One of the things I managed to somehow get lumped with (I probably volunteered) is doing a kind of evaluation over mobile personal email devices for distribution to the executive.  It’s something that’s been going around most of the departments; one officer turns up with a BlackBerry and suddenly everyone’s executive is going back to their IT departments asking why they weren’t getting BlackBerries.  So it’s hit us, and we’re scratching our heads and biting our nails over how the hell we’re going to impliment these damn things.  Turns out we kinda like BlackBerries, so that was convenient… until people start talking about using Windows Mobile 5 smartphones rather than BlackBerry.  Mobile 5 is kind of a baby in the whole push email*/smartphone market, and it’s, er, not as developed in the whole security area.  As far as we can tell, we’re allowed to use Mobile 5 but it has to satisfy the same baseline security standard as the guidelines for deploying BlackBerries, which it doesn’t do nativley.

Anyway, the upside of all this is that my supervisor tracked me down an iPAQ PDA with Mobile 5 installed on it for me to play with.  ‘Play with’ right now basically means “try and Bluetooth pair up to as many devices as possible”, since I’ve never really had a PDA before and there’s the whole ‘Whee!’ factor to get over.  So imagine my annoyance to find out that iSync doesn’t have support for Mobile 5’s ActiveSync.  Fortunatley, the internet is a big place and some nice people out there have written a product called The Missing Synch, which connects to Mobile 5 and which I generously acquired a trial version of for myself this evening.

So now I want a PDA.  I mean, not really but… I want a PDA.  I check my email more than I get phonecalls anyway.  Uh, yeah.  Did I mention I’ve still got 18 months on my phone contract?  So not gonna happen.

I still can’t get the stupid thing to share my internet connection, though.

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* Email that works more like SMS.  It’s the thing BlackBerries do.

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