It's the drunk in my past shufflin' by like a train...

Sounds on its track like a ride, like a ride that don't last.
Swears each drink is the last, tells the same lie each night.
And breaks every promise...

I have to admit that I'm a gadget freak. I know that many of you will find that hard to believe, but it's the gospel. In the Year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-eight, I purchased my first computer. It was a technological wonder to me with 128k of RAM, Apple OS, dual floppy drives, and a green monochrome monitor. I was so high tech that many gazed upon me in wonder. Then in 1991 I assembled my first of many IBM compatible PCs. It too was a technological wonder with its 486 processor, 1meg of RAM, 120meg hard drive, and 15" color monitor...

In the years that followed, I built a few more computers, purchased a few that I made major upgrades to (I had a nasty reputation of voiding their warranties the moment that they were lifted out of their boxes), and then other gadgets began to creep into my life. PDAs were another big source of enjoyment for me beginning with the Palm m100 that I purchased. The m100 provided me with endless opportunities to write all I needed to write and its full-size collapsible keyboard made my friends go, "Ew." My favorite PDA was the Zire71 that I purchased to complete my most recent venture into college after the ole m100 started to show its age. Much of this Blog was written on the Zire71 as well as one of my Web sites being almost totally written on it. It also provided a great many pictures that wound up on the Internet. Alas, it started showing its age and eventually it died...

So now the gadget I use on a regular basis consist of my new ÜberPuter, an old Zire21 PDA that I set up to nearly mirror my dead Zire71, an old laptop that I still use because some of the software on it won't run on the ÜberPuter and the fact that it is portable, and now to the collection is the device that I am now typing these great tales upon, an HP 320LX Palmtop PC that I finally got around to getting working for it has a full-sized keyboard unlike the Zire21 and is far more portable than the laptop and has 1gig of storage so I can write for an eternity and never have to delete a single thing...

Yes, I have a technology addiction, but it has not killed me over these past 20 years so I think I shall just live with this flaw in my character...

This is the Word of the AntiCrust...

Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans...