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Mar. 15th, 2009
the obligatory horse post
Mar. 15th, 2009 08:46 pmAs of today, I Have a Horse.
It turns out that she's registered with the American Quarter Horse Association as "Hi Impressivist". (I don't know who among her previous owners named her Gemini, but it was a mercy. Of course, registration names are globally unique identifiers, so they end up being...odd.) She's got impressive bloodlines, being descended from Impressive, and on her dam's side, from other descendents of Three Bars. Really, I had no idea, she was just another rescue horse.
Anyway, she seems to be settling in well to the barn. She's seen the other horses, but hasn't been introduced to them yet.
I have no fixed schedule for ground work, mounted ring work, getting her on the trails, etc. We're taking things as they come.
It turns out that she's registered with the American Quarter Horse Association as "Hi Impressivist". (I don't know who among her previous owners named her Gemini, but it was a mercy. Of course, registration names are globally unique identifiers, so they end up being...odd.) She's got impressive bloodlines, being descended from Impressive, and on her dam's side, from other descendents of Three Bars. Really, I had no idea, she was just another rescue horse.
Anyway, she seems to be settling in well to the barn. She's seen the other horses, but hasn't been introduced to them yet.
I have no fixed schedule for ground work, mounted ring work, getting her on the trails, etc. We're taking things as they come.
palm -> android
Mar. 15th, 2009 10:37 pmI finally drank the google kool-aid, and got a G1 (google phone).
My handset was old and basic, and the antenna was in danger of cracking and breaking off. But the thing that really pushed me over the edge was that my PDA went non-linear about a month ago - the digitizer is not accurately reporting the position of the stylus, and the problem is most acute at the bottom, in the graffiti area. Since I use a Fitaly keyboard, where precise positioning is critically important, it's bordering on useless to me now.
The thing is, after almost a decade on PalmOS devices, I have a lot of data I need to transfer to this device. For instance, for Calendar data, the Palm desktop will only export to .dba format, and Google calendar can't import that. The common advice is to use Yahoo calendar to import the .dba, and export to .csv, to import into Google calendar. However, Yahoo made a complete hash of it - it completely randomized the data, in a different way each time.
It astonishes me that a) Google calendar doesn't have a Palm import option, b) failing that, there isn't a simple app or perl script that will convert formats.
It would also be nice if I could export my Palm Address book. The Android Contacts manager only wants to import from the SIM card, and I only kept a handful of numbers on the phone itself.
Finally, I'm looking for a replacement for Handy Shopper - the app that immediately doubled the value of my Palm. There are plenty of shopping list apps for Android, and every one I've tried Sucks, in really egregious, unacceptable ways. I don't really want to have to become a UI developer, but it's going to be tough to live without this one.
My handset was old and basic, and the antenna was in danger of cracking and breaking off. But the thing that really pushed me over the edge was that my PDA went non-linear about a month ago - the digitizer is not accurately reporting the position of the stylus, and the problem is most acute at the bottom, in the graffiti area. Since I use a Fitaly keyboard, where precise positioning is critically important, it's bordering on useless to me now.
The thing is, after almost a decade on PalmOS devices, I have a lot of data I need to transfer to this device. For instance, for Calendar data, the Palm desktop will only export to .dba format, and Google calendar can't import that. The common advice is to use Yahoo calendar to import the .dba, and export to .csv, to import into Google calendar. However, Yahoo made a complete hash of it - it completely randomized the data, in a different way each time.
It astonishes me that a) Google calendar doesn't have a Palm import option, b) failing that, there isn't a simple app or perl script that will convert formats.
It would also be nice if I could export my Palm Address book. The Android Contacts manager only wants to import from the SIM card, and I only kept a handful of numbers on the phone itself.
Finally, I'm looking for a replacement for Handy Shopper - the app that immediately doubled the value of my Palm. There are plenty of shopping list apps for Android, and every one I've tried Sucks, in really egregious, unacceptable ways. I don't really want to have to become a UI developer, but it's going to be tough to live without this one.
